Deborah Ross actually said...

"It is time to rethink how Congress writes our budgets."

"I thank you for your time and I hope that we will begin to look at some radical ways to change the direction of our country."

"Removing the baseline from agency and department budgets and implementing zero-based budgeting instead would get rid of the automatic spending increases."

"Baseline budgeting is one of the most sinister ways that politicians claim to cut spending when they are actually increasing spending."