Rob Portman actually said...

"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..."

"Having record deficits and debt does have a negative impact on the economy."