If you want to balance the budget in X number of years, here is what you would have to do.

I do not intend to be recommending to the President that we negotiate or govern by crisis.

We have to do something.

I do not dispute there was a short-term cost. I do not know if I agree with the exact billion dollar figure.

We believe the 2013 government shutdown was good policy.

We can turn this economy around. We can turn this country around. But it is going to take difficult decisions today in order to avoid taking nearly impossible decisions tomorrow.

I think it offers us perhaps the best opportunity to have an immediate impact on getting the economy ramped up even further.

The truth is that if we do not reform these programs that are so important to your constituents in Vermont and to mine in South Carolina, I believe in 9 or 10 years the Medicaid trust fund is empty.

There seems to be, in talking with all the folks on this Committee and the other Committee, a good bit of bipartisan support in this House--or in this chamber for regulatory reform.

I want those that are watching this to know that I stand ready to do whatever it takes to protect the health and safety of women.

The crowding out is real. The numbers I have seen in the academic research would indicate that, give or take, when debt approaches 85 percent of GDP, you start to see real effects of crowding out.

Absolutely not. I would not recommend that to the President.

The Government budget process is similar to the private sector budgeting... but the system they describe is entirely different.

My commitment, if you confirm me, is to the President of the United States.

I intend to make it a priority in my discussions with the President on fiscal matters.

Is that really the message that this new administration wants to send to women?

I have learned that I do not have a monopoly on good ideas. Facts--and the cogent arguments of others--matter. I will be loyal to the facts and to the American people . . . I serve.

I think that would dramatically undermine the full faith and credit, and I think most experts have said that prioritization scheme would be a disaster.

A full repeal of the ACA with no replacement will cause many people to lose health insurance.

A full repeal of the ACA with no replacement will be a massive tax break for wealthy Americans because of two high-earner taxes in the law.

I recognize the fact there is some science that would indicate that. I am not yet convinced that it is a direct correlation between manmade activity and the change in the climate, which I do believe is real.

There is no capital budget. There is no budget versus actual. There is no this year versus last year.

The number one priority of the United States Federal Government is to defend the Nation.

Senator Kaine has been a strong advocate on that.

There will be a time for a discussion about aid and how to pay for it, but that time is not now.