Mark Warner actually said...

"I have put forward some of those approaches in past efforts, as you are aware, on both sides of the ledger."

"I would rather it get lower than that, but it is in the right direction."

"I would point out to all my colleagues that actually the President's budget is the only one of the three budgets between the Senate budget or the House budget that at least starts to take on the chall..."

"this is not as much an immediate problem, but an intermediate problem and needs to have phase-ins."