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.

I think feeding the hungry is a constitutional imperative.

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

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.

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.