"This, to me, is a success story. And we ought to, as a Congress, be focusing on the facts and make it work better."
"But tax increases affect economic vitality and affect behavior and growth."
"Which is the long-term trajectory."
"Making a multi-year commitment to the principles embodied in the President's Budget will reduce the risk of future crises."
"Agreed. So, last month, Moody's gave us a--they laid out a debt trajectory in which the U.S. Could face a credit rating downgrade by mid-decade."
"Obviously, we dramatically disagree with your interpretation of your budget, but we will leave it at that."
"I think this budget, as much as I don't like a lot of it, does make the kind of investments that we need to be competitive."
"I question the assertion of primary balance, given that the final arbiter, CBO, on this is using a different set of projections."
"Let's not say that we are only for clean debt limits when, just a year ago, the President was fine with attaching things on debt limit."
"I don't see how you can square Mr. Carney... the debt goes from $13 trillion to $26 trillion."
"How do we expect to win global competition? How do we expect to create jobs when we are taxing the engine of economic growth and job creation, small businesses, at rates in excess of 50 percent in mos..."