Ron Wyden actually said...

"I hope you will do that first, rather than continue on other matters that might make for good publicity but do not really deal with the guts of what our economy needs."

"If confirmed, you have some heavy lifting to do because, after all the ballyhoo about how the administration was going to get taxes on a postcard..."

"Mr. Chairman, I think both of us went about a minute or so over. Could Senator Menendez just have that too?"

"Given the right opportunities for tax planning and tax evasion, frankly, created under the new Republican tax law, how are you going to combat the kinds of aggressive tax planners?"