"Isn't the heart of your interest in tax reform, that it will help us create more good-paying jobs and it is key to growth?"
"Do the two of you agree that this time as part of tax reform it is going to be important to have a mechanism in place to no longer have this easy backsliding?"
"I do believe that the American people who benefit from Social Security and Medicare want to see us bring the wasteful Washington spending under control, too, that it should not be off the table."
"I think it would be possible to again build a bipartisan coalition for Build America Bonds if we get them to focus only on transportation."
"What is going to be our challenge in the Administration?"
"To drive the deficit down dramatically, we need more economic growth."
"We should not start in a place that is going to further distort the code."
"I am concerned that with the proposal that you are offering now in the rural West we are going to see rural counties go bankrupt."
"I do not think that we want to concede China or Asia or Europe or any of these other emerging markets to our foreign competitors."
"Permanence is the way to go."
"One of Manchin's colleagues in the Senate who did show up to vote was Oregon Senator Ron Wyden."