"I applaud Senator Wyden... for his comments on tax reform."
"We need to focus, all of us, our constituents, the American people, on this issue."
"I think the risk premium that the private sector is looking at... I do not see embodied in your analysis."
"There is going to need to be a debate on what to do to resolve this so that we do not have to deal with it on an annual basis."
"I believe that with a $1.5 trillion debt this year projected, or deficit this year projected and a debt that is on track to double in the next 10 years, that we are impacting our ability to get out fr..."
"I see about $960 billion in what I would call either imaginary or unspecified savings."
"I have been told it is a gas tax hike, but that is not what it says in the budget."
"We do not get one without the other. So I do not think that--it does not increase the deficit."
"I am very disappointed because I do not think it rises to the challenge that you yourself have set out or the President had set out."
"I am just--I am concerned about the overall budget and the big picture we have talked about today because it does not address the fundamental issues."
"There is a study recently done by an economist at Kenyon showing 17,000 jobs would be lost in Ohio just by extrapolating from some of the national data on deferral."