Rob Portman actually said...

"I think you made a really good point that if we do not get our health care costs under control, it is unlikely that our fiscal condition can be saved."

"I would say to my colleague from Maine that, at the risk of getting him in trouble, it sounded like he was channeling Tom Coburn more than Bernie Sanders."

"It is not easy."

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