Gerry Connolly actually said...

"We have to get out of this mindless narrative that all spending is the same and all spending is bad."

"In your testimony, you talked about how the Affordable Health Care Act actually helped reduce Federal outlays and long term actually will contribute to deficit reduction."

"We need to highlight that kind of statistic more. We need to educate our colleagues around here that it aint all the same."

"Would it surprise you to learn that as a matter of fact the answer to that is they went down both years for the first time in the history of the program?"