"That is a massive dereliction of oversight responsibility."
"We have a growing amount of improper payments, and what was $150 billion a year prior to COVID is now $230 billion a year."
"For sure. It starts at the top, they say, right?"
"I appreciate my Ranking Member making the comment about fiscal responsibility, and the culture of fiscal responsibility is ours, is our mantle to bear and our goal for the taxpayers of this great nati..."
"I don't question the intentions of anybody in here, including Earl Blumenauer over there."
"A public debt is a public curse and the worst of its kind, he said, in a Republican form of government."
"The people of this institution have to have the political will to do the necessary and now extremely painful things."
"If you have a broken process, you will get bad outcomes most of the time."
"It ain't working. So let's figure out how we can put those incentives in place."
"He has put a lot of thought into this... about our spending problem and the national debt."
"I want to prove to them that we can rise to their expectations and be responsible stewards."
"I want to thank my Ranking Member again for his leadership and the bipartisan sentiments."