We could have a larger budget if we had the courage to vote for it.

It is important that we work through these issues on a bipartisan basis for the good of the American taxpayer.

I, right now, have a 17 percent vacancy rate in my office just to stay under the limits that I have been operating under in the last few years.

It took many years. Why? Because the administration of George W. Bush had a veto threat out on the legislation.

The American spirit is the can-do, we can fix it attitude, not the blame game, not the bickering game.

I am worried that the net effect of this hearing might be to exaggerate the security difficulties of the website.

the fault is on our side of the dais. So I don't want to put you in a tough spot, so I will go ahead and make some points on my own about the House's and Congress' inability to perform adequately in these trying times.

I admire your work, particularly since you are having to operate in an irrational budget environment.

This is not a foreign threat; this is a self-inflicted wound.

I appreciate the witnesses. I just wanted to make an announcement that, in an effort to be constructive, Congressman Paul Ryan and I have introduced today a bill that would give the Pentagon complete flexibility in making spending…

I personally would like to, you know, eliminate sequestration entirely.