Steny Hoyer actually said...

"I have consistently advocated for making the difficult decisions necessary not only to stop adding to the deficit, but to reverse the long-term fiscal trends that threaten our future economic prosperi..."

"The budget process is broken. That is not good for the Congress, it is not good for the American people."

"You will not get a handle on the--meeting the needs both of national security and of domestic security without really fiscal confrontations unless we agree together."

"The reason Tip O'Neill and Ronald Reagan were able to do something which funded Social Security and made it stable for a lot of years was because they held hands."