Paul Tonko actually said...

"As an engineer, I am very interested in this topic."

"Social Security is not a campaign promise. It is the real contract on America, and spoken with America."

"According to Mark Zandy, former Presidential candidates John McCain's economic advisor, the C.R. or 'so be it' spending bill would destroy some 700,000 jobs."

"Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke said yesterday that it would cost at least a couple of hundred thousand jobs, a number called 'not trivial.'"