Jerry Nadler actually said...

"We shouldn't put ideological choices into the Constitution."

"If we restored PAYGO rules intelligently and started behaving the way we did in the 1990's, we may have a different situation."

"Does it make sense economically to pass a balanced budget amendment without a capital budget, which means we can never borrow money under any circumstances for any purpose without a three-fifths vote ..."

"Whatever anyone may think of the debt or how to reduce it or the proper level of Government expenditures as a percentage of GDP, those kinds of policies are to be enacted as legislation which can be m..."