Pat Ryan

And now these are being confirmed from our constituents.

Look, I find it puzzling we have to explain to administration officials how the law works.

And there is nothing, nothing on your Web site that tells an under-26-year-old those facts.

Prior to making such credits and deductions available, the Secretary shall certify to Congress that the exchanges verify such eligibility consistent with the requirements of the act.

If a person is offered insurance at their job... then they can't get Obamacare subsidies.

These estimates do not take into account the tax credit eligibility requirements relating to other minimum essential coverage.

People are signing up for insurance, they are getting tax credit subsidies funded by taxpayers.

We haven't solved the problem. We're still spending too much money.

It is also the fact that health inflation is getting out of control, it is running faster than everything else.

The whole narrative in Washington, D.C. is every single dollar the government spends is bad.

Clearly, a little tinkering isn't enough. We need a whole new approach.

What I find interesting in your report is the main driver of these outlays that are going up so fast are the health care programs.

When you owe more than you make, your creditors get antsy.

Washington's motto is never do today what you can put off until tomorrow, but tomorrow is a whole lot closer than we think.

The reason this debt limit fight is coming is because when we have had great fiscal bipartisan agreements in the past...

We still are spending too much money.

If we miss this moment, if we just kick the can because we keep fighting each other, then we will not get this opportunity.

We are really hurting ourselves with these high tax rates.

So the revenues are rising, but spending is taking off at an unsustainable trajectory, correct?

We need to make sure we can pay our bills both today--and tomorrow.

I just think it is important as we have this discussion to say, well, we have these points in history where the debt ran up.

If the minority would have been willing to agree to limiting their motions to instruct conferees to two, we could have gone to conference.

We had a problem to solve, and we ended up solving it alone.

This is not a Republican-Democrat thing; this is a math thing.

I remember running for Congress in 2002, and the number one issue for businesses and families was health care.