Betty McCollum actually said...

"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."

"the Space Force, in my opinion, was hastily put together. I am not opposed to the fact that we have a Space Force; but Congress, in my opinion, did not give all the due diligence as to how this was go..."

"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."

"I hope Congress has learned a hard lesson, that we should not hold the national debt limit hostage to arbitrary spending caps."