Roy Blunt actually said...

"The reliance on mandatory spending to supplant discretionary funding contributes to exactly what is wrong with our Federal budget."

"I certainly would not think that would be the way we would want to follow our effort last year to increase research by $2 billion."

"Thank you, Senator Shaheen."

"I would normally go to Chairman Cochran, but he says he was a little late getting across the street, so he didn’t want to get in front of anybody who was already here."