John Hoeven actually said...

"I look forward to working with you, as the Chairman, on this subcommittee."

"we have a significant and growing deficit and debt."

"I respect that greatly, and am going to work to do the best I can to produce the very best budget."

"My hope is that we just voted for the last short-term continuing resolution and that the next effort at the end of this 3-week period we will finish out the rest of the year and the 2012 budget we are..."