Does it create jobs? Does it address inequality? Does it raise revenues in a fair way?

We should pass a budget that meets those tests and never pass one that doesn't.

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 going to spend their resources.

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

Investment, not austerity, is what our economy needs to get working again.

We are at a critical moment here. Not just whether we will replace the sequester, but what it will be replaced with?

He believed in the Congress, and he believed that this institution could produce positive results for the American people.

And in my view, that is like the Indian tribes in the West where we always knew when a tribe was going to end when they began to eat the seed corn.

My point is, Mr. Chairman, patients don't shop, they follow what doctors tell them to do.

I would like for the committee, that you would submit to us, all of you, if you have it, evidence that backs up the theory that people go to the doctor more often than they need to.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And I want to say I have appreciated your slow gavel so that we could allow the witnesses to finish what they have to say.

I look forward to this process.