Roger Wicker actually said...

"I am concerned about the impact the CR and sequestration will have on our industrial base."

"If we cannot do that to save the system and to save a successful program, then we are pretty well not going to be able to save Medicare and Social Security in the future."

"Maybe we need to give it another name. I have come up with one, Madam Chair. Let us call it 'TRICOLA'--truth in cost of living adjustments."

"It was not a Bush war. It was something that we all did and all Americans supported it--one dissenting vote in the House of Representatives."