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

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

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.

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

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

We absolutely will continue to work with you.

I am a little disturbed.

there is no substitute for actually going to look at stuff on the ground.

Absolutely. And would look forward to working with you on ideas. Again, I do not think that this is the chamber that is necessarily broken at this particular time.

We can choose to borrow nothing or $1 trillion, but there are limited resources at some level.

I do not like the wait times and the hold times any more than you do.

I think it is fair to say that we are disappointed in the size of the deficit, disappointed in the fact that it does not balance.

It is no more Armageddon and no more catastrophic than what we are doing right now, spending $1.5 trillion that we do not have every year.

Is it easier to spend money than it is to cut? Absolutely.

I do not think it is possible at this point, given what has happened in the last 12 months especially, to pay off the debt in 8 years.

I continue to agree with the statement of the head of the Joint Chiefs several years ago that said one of the greatest threats to the Nation was the debt.

I am sure that the country's debt is much worse than I ever thought. Allowing this figure to increase compromises U.S. foreign policy.

We absolutely believe that what we have done to try and fix the economy... is good for the government.

What has not been mentioned is the doubling of the commitment we make to apprenticeship programs because we have proof that they work.

We should be focusing on the standard of living of your unborn grandchildren.

I think we have deemphasized the dignity of work for generations now and I think the budget starts to move things in a different direction.

The best way to do it is to allow folks to lift themselves up out of poverty to close the gap.

We have asked many other agencies to become more efficient. We are asking SSA to do the same thing.

We took a lot of heat as an administration and you did as a legislature for passing the tax bill that supposedly would run up the deficit.