Rob Portman actually said...

"I am glad you said in your budget for the first time that you ought to not use these preference reductions or loophole closures for the budget deficit generally but for revenue-neutral tax reform."

"The notion that we can continue careening down this path of record debt... is really dangerous."

"We are in a deep fiscal hole. We have never experienced this as a country."

"This is about those workers, again, middle-class Americans who are trying to keep their job or get a job and have decent pay when their pay has gone down almost 4,500 bucks over the past several years..."