Tom Malinowski: “The message should be: Cut it out.”

Whoever works harder is going to win.

The political reality is we would have done it in the House. There was no way to get a bill through the filibuster in the Senate that is fully paid for.

As you acknowledge, Republicans had 2 years to do something about the deficit, and you acknowledge they did nothing. We just cut it by $300 billion.

I wanted to take a moment to thank her for the hard work and the many years that she has been a leader on this committee.