If you tell them that they have paid into a system for their entire life... that is not something that is going to be palatable to nearly everybody.

It is wholly irresponsible to turn this debate into one that threatens the full faith and credit of the United States.

I appreciate the frankness of all of you.

I agree. I do not think we are likely to eliminate the debt limit.

I thank Mr. Garamendi so much for organizing this discussion of a really important topic. In San Diego, we are a center of genomics, a center of life sciences, and a center of collaborative scientific research that makes groundbreaking…

How do we bring America together to have this kind of comprehensive adult conversation that we need to have?

You cannot cut enough to deal with it, and you cannot grow yourself out of it. You have to do all three.

We should not shy away from having a real debate when we raise the debt limit.

Your opposition to the border tax, if that is taken out, the math does not work real well for the tax plan.

The triple-A credit of the United States is the bedrock of the global financial system.

To me, working in a bipartisan manner on these issues is the only path forward.

This is all games that they play, and they go back and forth, and it is just another example of the dysfunction that exists in the U.S. Congress.

We cannot talk about dealing with the deficit unless we are dealing with all three legs, which are tax policy, spending, and growth.

the complacency works, I think, two ways.

I came to Congress ready to help improve our healthcare system. And as our colleagues on Chairman Walden's side have pointed out, there are some insurance markets that aren't providing the choice and the low cost that consumers want, so…

sovereign nations across the globe are brought together by different unifying forces. It can be a shared heritage, language, religion, or outside historical forces that led to borders drawn decades or centuries ago. As a nation, we are…

Well, they do a critically important job, and it reminds us of the fact that most of our borders are water, not land.

We are in the process right now of a transformation of the auto industry in ways as every bit as big as when the first car came off of the assembly line with Henry Ford.

I find reports of the Trump Administration's plans to cut the budget of the Coast Guard by as much as 14 percent to be troubling and disconnected with the value this unique military service provides to the country.

I did not have one border agent tell me that we needed a wall across the entire border.

The question is not whether or not we want to secure the border or whether or not we all agree that crimes committed by anyone, including people who are not in this country legally--we have to do everything we can to prevent them.

The citizens of Michigan depend on a healthy, secure Great Lakes system for clean drinking water, sustainable fisheries, recreation and tourism.

I look forward to its continued success and continued delivery of all nine of these high-performance vessels.

I am particularly concerned about an aging pipeline that we have in the Straits of Mackinac...

I hope that we will be active participants with you and perhaps even creating a research institute of some sort.