"We are headed for serious results if we don't act. We need to act now."
"The alternative, I believe, is to have a bipartisan fiscal commission."
"the greatest threat to the Republic as we know it is the division in the body politic"
"this Congress is going to have to muster the courage to fix this, and we can no longer hide behind the politics of everything"
"we need to tackle the fiscal dysfunction, and I believe a fiscal commission is part of that"
"It is imperative that the Congress begin to act immediately, and the failure to do so could indeed signal the end of the Republic as we know it."
"If you believe, as most do, that it would be better for us not to have trillion dollar annual deficits and $33 trillion in debt, the course of action is not a mystery."
"Why not have the Oversight Committee actually do oversight on some of the more expensive government activities and see where money can be saved rather than holding wasteful hearings on Hunter Biden an..."
"There is another answer. The only reason the trust fund is an issue is because the law says that benefits have to be paid out of the trust fund."
"The Energy and Commerce Committee can do the same thing with Medicaid, and while they are at that one, they can passionately look at the oil subsidies that cost us billions."
"If you don't have that, it is not going to work."
"So I think you have got to have the ability to have an expedited procedure in the United States Senate and then to have a vote."