Betty McCollum actually said...

"I hope Congress has learned a hard lesson: that we should not hold our national debt limit hostage over arbitrary spending caps."

"I voted for the Fiscal Responsibility Act, not because I agreed with the spending levels in the deal, but because this country could not afford to default on its debts."

"to lay all of the blame on the current President of the United States I think shortchanges the reality of how Congress has failed."

"States put significant amounts of money into National Guard, whether it is tuition reimbursement, whether it is into, you know, equipment, land, and other things like that."