"Defunding the Affordable Care Act is not legislating. This is like taking an eraser to an answer on a test, and then leaving it blank because you don't have a better solution."
"the growth is so low that it doesn't even surpass projected GDP growth per capita over the next 10 years."
"the Affordable Care Act seems to have brought projected Medicare spending down."
"Now, what about proposals that would reduce Medicare spending even further like the Ryan-Ribble proposal to voucherize Medicare."
"I disavowed them. I don't remember that the letter was addressed exactly to you."
"Now, I would note that a little more recently during the debate over the Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003."
"I commend you for exercising our Committee's often overlooked jurisdiction over trade-related matters."
"I wholeheartedly agree with calls to increase U.S. exports in order to put people back to work and restore our country's reputation as a place that makes things."
"When I came to Congress some years ago, the United States exported more merchandise than it imported."
"The current recession gives us the opportunity to re-orient U.S. trade policy toward the job-creating export of tangible manufactured goods."
"I hope to learn about the deal's potential effects on the automobile industry, which, as my colleagues and those assembled here today know, is of great importance to my home state of Michigan."
"I want to tell you, I am a particular admirer of your department, particularly your Foreign Commercial Services Agency."