Tim Ryan

The only way for Congress to ensure spending is sustainable is to put all programs in some way on budget.

I support their passage.

The clock is ticking on the need for that broader discussion.

In the end, only Congress will decide if and how it will act.

We can either ignore the law or abide by the law.

The House budget makes a proposal, the one that we had passed, makes a proposal to bring down spending now, earlier and faster.

When Republicans were in power, more people went into poverty because jobs were outsourced.

For me it fails on a moral level as well as a civil level.

I frankly cannot support a budget that expands tax preferences for the most wealthy by nearly a trillion dollars, $961 billion, while cutting the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, our major food program, by $122 billion.

$122 billion is absolutely unconscionable.

The tax preferences that are in the proposed budget outweigh the food cuts by eight to one.

I think feeding the hungry is a constitutional imperative.

I just want to thank the gentleman because one of the issues we have in this committee... is a national narrative that there is not anything that we can invest in that is necessarily a good thing.

We agree we should just do our jobs. We know savings should be taken from this budget, that there clearly is room for savings.

We must find a bipartisan way to undo the sequester but replace it with, what I hope will be, a balanced approach to deficit reduction.

If this Congress imposes more cuts in the defense budget, that will increase the risk and could make it impossible for us to execute the strategy we have developed.

It maintains our unparalleled military strength.

The President's plan responsibly replaces the sequester with even greater deficit reduction through a balanced plan that calls for shared responsibility.

No one believes an across-the-board reduction is the preferred way to get our finances in order or to take care of priorities.

There is now wide bipartisan consensus that all spending, including spending at the Pentagon, must be on the table as we figure out how to get our finances back on track.

We can no longer afford to spend taxpayer resources without doing the analysis; without ensuring every dollar is efficiently and effectively invested.

Thank you for spending your time, this has been very enlightening.

This is fantastic. I think that was one of the best explanations of competitive bidding and how to structure this so we get at cost growth.

We do not see this as a big stretch, and we are applying finite dollars because of pending bankruptcy.

Could you structure reforms that prevent that 23 percent cut from happening if you act sooner?