Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"Yes. And then here's defense discretionary spending, and then this is non-defense discretionary spending, which as you can see has been fairly constant over all of those years."

"Is it a fact, Director Swagel, that projected primary spending, that is federal non-interest spending, is now lower than it was projected to be in 2012?"

"Our national debt is not only the result of those two economic shocks, of course. It is also the result of repeated rounds of Republican tax cuts that primarily benefited giant corporations and very, ..."

"the prospect of that creating a shock to the economy along the lines of the 2008 shock or worse, have been repeatedly raised in this Committee"