"President Ronald Reagan... made an appeal that when Congress came back he wanted them to more than double the gas tax."
"Part of the issue is that there is an opportunity to coax more value."
"I appreciate the fact that you are managing, or attempting to, 90,000 employees."
"The budget, if this Congress in its wisdom, my Republican colleagues are cutting your budget."
"Some of this does sound condescending I will say, or not allowing you to answer questions."
"I appreciate your ongoing efforts to sort of peel back the level of the onion with these hearings."
"I'm embarrassed for this administration and previous administrations for not having a robust, effective program to be able to deal with the facts."
"I'm embarrassed. I'm embarrassed for you having to be here to defend a broken system."
"to increase public recreation opportunities"
"And I do appreciate what you and our Ranking Member have done in terms of moving forward with this and setting the stage for it, and I share both the sense of the urgency and the potential of doing so..."
"I couldn't agree more with Congressman Johnson about getting the flipping numbers off the Social Security card."
"the initial bill mirrored the Federal bill introduced by Congressman Earl Blumenauer and would have moved neonicotinoids to a restricted use pesticide"