Jim McDermott actually said...

As we often hear, budgets are moral documents. They are a statement by a country about what they want their future to be and where they are ...

Our ability now to produce manufactured goods and that sort of thing is--we are in real competition around the world.

But the real damage of the sequester is that it affects the long-term investments in research that this country does.

He appreciated the role of the House in our balanced structure of government.