But I think it points to a broader issue for me that I think is important about this hearing, which is we know that there are economic benefits.

I appreciate the chairman bringing this issue to the Oversight Committee's subcommittee.

Every single new job and every single new dollar of additional revenue... is vital.

I need, we need, my constituents need this website to work. We need to enroll in the exchange.

H.R. 3330, the Veterans' Independent Living Enhancement Act, was introduced by Congresswoman Michelle Lujan Grisham in October.

I want to be results-oriented. I want to solve these problems.

We want to be sure that the recommendations that you put in place do effectively prohibit this kind of waste but don't limit the opportunities to have a well-trained, well-recognized, productive workforce.

I think that the OMB's reaction might cause harm and not get to the real issue.

He shares my concern that these will harm the ability of the national labs in their research.

So, Mr. Jarvis, these are mostly rhetorical questions. I thank you for trying to make the best out of a very bad situation that Congress has created.

The faster Congress realizes that we are hurting millions of people across the country, that every single day, by failing to accomplish one of our fundamental responsibilities, the faster this senseless shutdown ends.

I disagree that this is the most useful time here and believe that we could do a much better job by supporting them to enhance these partnerships by having the resources to do so.

I think it's shameful that we are asking you to explain your decisions when we have the power to stop all of this nonsense, and we should do it immediately.

we ought to repeal Medicare Part D. Enrollment is tough

Today, every Federal employee that is furloughed or government program that is disrupted as a result the government shutdown is a casualty in my colleagues on the other side of the aisle's effort or their war to kill the Affordable Care…

I am--and you have heard this, I think, several times this morning, but we have one of the national labs also, two national labs in New Mexico, and they are both very clear that in the interest of national security, having a diverse energy…

In New Mexico, we are on the forefront of climate change.

And I want to know what that impact of continuing that kind of a balanced approach, where you are reducing and you are raising, has on the Federal deficit over the next 25 years.

what is the impact on our economy if we weren't to address that and make sure that the full faith and credit of the United States--

The deficit and the debt are stark and striking and require us to do something because they are incredibly serious.

this sequester then leads to, particularly in the military, an inability to do that innovation and research and have that translate to economic growth in the economy.

we are expanding Medicaid, we have a Republican Governor, who is doing that.

But you would agree that we ought to be careful about just cutting those families off food stamps.

I would hope that in America, the starting point is we all care.

In New Mexico, senior citizens beg to go back to work because $10 in food stamps was not enough to make ends meet.