Mick Mulvaney

American consumers deserve strong protections, while also being afforded the opportunity to control their own financial decisions and futures.

Gary Cohn is one of the smartest people I have worked with. Having the chance to collaborate with him has been one of the highlights of my career in public service.

The only good guy left

It will have to be something other than an omnibus because we are not signing one.

We are actually doing that in Puerto Rico. They are going to be better off.

Money has not been the difficulty. I just got handed a note: 96 percent of customers have power now.

So we absolutely do defend the tax bill and think it has been a tremendous benefit to the American people.

The President is serious in his threat not to sign another omni.

We encourage anything that gets us back to regular order.

I think it is a misunderstanding of the role of OMB.

We are going to be completely above board on this one. I am not any happier about it than you are.

I don't think anybody has ever been charged criminally with a violation of the antideficiency statute.

We take the antideficiency statute very, very seriously. If they have been broken, we will follow the rules.

I love CRAs. As a bureaucrat, which for better or worse is what I am now--I am a member of the bureaucracy, I am a member of the executive branch of government, I am a bureaucrat, I am one director for one bureau, right--clarity is my…

I would suggest to you, as I suggested to Mr. Hensarling and Senator Crapo, that I could have come in, made my presentation, kicked back my feet up on the table, twiddled my thumbs, and not answered a single question.

Actually, it is a little deeper than that, Mr. Chairman. It is not that I don't have to appear before the Appropriation Committees.

There is no reason for folks to know this, but when we sent up the supplemental on the forest fires, we included a bunch of land management reforms because we know that, if you don't fix it, you are just going to have the same problems…

The budget we sent up last year is the largest proposed reform of mandatory spending in the history of budgets.

We have made some really good proposals on how to change, for example, Social Security Disability Insurance, how to fix payments in Medicare to non-Medicare folks.

This is not a Republican thing. It is bipartisan.

What that agency does in managing the Federal estate is phenomenally important.

I am a little disturbed.

I don't think most Americans realize how pervasive it is in everything they do, from buying groceries to buying a house to clothes for their children to paying for healthcare expenses.

As we travel our districts and talk to small business owners and entrepreneurs... they feel palpable reductions in weight from the Federal Government.

The good news is, I think the last time I looked at this, writ large, we were 16 to 1 for a while and then 22, 23 to 1 after that.