"Our current fiscal calendar and the Executive Branch's inability to effectively deliver the President's budget proposal to Congress on time are not conducive to the current fiscal year structure."
"I do think they will help lend to a constructed debate."
"Politicians can't fix it. We come up with policy."
"This unprecedented debt crisis means that going forward Congress will have to take the tough votes to lower our debt."
"do you have the political courage to do what needs to be done?"
"It is nearly impossible to balance the budget when unelected bureaucrats issue costly rules and spend money without proper oversight."
"Our window to restore common sense to our Federal budget is slowly closing, and we must act before our kids and grandkids pay the price for our government's abdication of fiscal responsibility."
"There is no way in hell I could run the dealership the way this business is run."
"You would hope that no Republicans, Mr. Chairman, would support supplementals without offsets, because that would demonstrate that the Republican Conference, the Republican majority, doesn't take seri..."
"It takes discipline. It takes commitment and public service that we all signed up to be here for."
"Without reforms immediately we will never be able to honor the commitments made by this government to our seniors and those most vulnerable."