Eliot Engel actually said...

"If we don't have the ability to retain good staff because we can't pay them what they want to be paid, they will either gravitate to the private sector if they are just interested in making money, but..."

"I want to enthusiastically endorse everything that Chairman Royce has said."

"I think that leaves us all in the House of Representatives a lot poorer in more ways than one."

"It's an absolute disgrace that we're going home. We should stay here until 'The Sequester' has ended. This is a stupid way to do it."