Betty McCollum actually said...

"Nowhere in my statement did I say the budget deficit is not a spending problem."

"I am going to paraphrase a popular Tea Party slogan that goes something like this, quote, the Federal Government doesn't have a revenue problem, it had as a spending problem."

"I can't make a decision in isolation, so I look to all of us to put everything on the table."

"I think we need to be careful of gutting domestic investments in education, infrastructure, and R&D in the next decade."