Gerry Connolly actually said...

"A great power must reject the false choice that we can deal with our debt or we can deal with other obligations but we cannot do both."

"So would you say that the program funded by the Recovery Act was a success, in your view?"

"Did we not also put some money into advanced battery manufacturing?"

"you can't take credit for that which you are deterring just because you are being overcome by the private sector"