"There's a difference between revenue raisers and tax increases. There are ways of raising revenue without raising taxes. If it's a tax increase, that's something that Republicans in the House and in the Senate are not going to support."
"Clearly, the process was abused. You don't use a hotline to bait and switch the country into a military conflict."
"If you're committed to having it happen, I assume that it wouldn't be a problem to use the 'shall' language."
"Nothing further. Thank you."
"It makes a difference in much the same way that if my wife said, 'Mike, take out the trash, you shall take out the trash and do the dishes,' that means something different than 'Mike, you may take out..."
"It doesn't seem to me to be a very good idea, if we want something to happen, to say 'may' rather than 'shall.'"
"Thank you. I've got a couple of technical lingering questions just related to the funding mechanism contemplated in S. 1224."
"I want to also thank Senator Orrin Hatch and Senator Mike Lee for introducing this important legislation."
"Thank you, Senator Shaheen. It's a pleasure to be here today, and I thank you for chairing this hearing on a number of water and power measures."
"I think tying the spending reductions to the debt limit increase is very important."
"I was a big fan of that. I was in high school when it passed, and I had great optimism for it."