Rob Portman actually said...

The mandatory side of the budget, which is the part we do not appropriate every year, is now two-thirds of the budget.

Portman discusses the growing proportion of mandatory spending in the federal budget.

03/04/2014

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This will continue that and accelerate it.

This proposal, which is, again, not a demonstration--hardly, if it is 75-percent coverage--but is a wholesale change.

I am concerned about it, and I am concerned about it for some of the reasons that have been stated already.

Not for those 40,000 families. Not for the family that is getting overcharged.