"I will remind you that the Congressional Budget Office has estimated the Affordable Care Act will reduce the deficit by $124 billion by 2019 and further cuts the deficit by $1.2 trillion in the second 10 years."
"Fifty million people couldn't get health insurance. Health care costs were increasing so rapidly. We needed to do something."
"The deficit crisis we find ourselves in is a man-made crisis, in fact, it is a Republican-made crisis."
"I am very frustrated because I feel that you came here and you did the best..."
"it seems that we couldn't slip much past you, try as the Republicans think we might."
"I think that the effort on the part of the Republicans to basically discredit you is baseless."
"we are trying to eliminate programs that will work to this effect."
"the Affordable Care Act is the largest deficit-reducing bill enacted by Congress in the last decade"
"Your study predicts that the health reform will strengthen the economy and the job market by creating 250,000 to 400,000 jobs a year for the next decade."
"I think that in fact the Affordable Care Act helps to create thousands of jobs in the public and private health care sectors."
"H.R. 1 also cuts $30 million from EPA's brownfields program."