"We don't have to choose between updating tanks or textbooks, and we should not be pitting teachers against soldiers."
"Tax cuts for corporations and the wealthiest Americans do not pay for themselves."
"Those are American priorities and they should be the priorities of this Congress and this committee."
"So what we are really talking about in this budget, I think, is this is the age old guns versus butter argument."
"I would think that just by nature of the fact that you are keeping people alive by feeding them is pretty good evidence."
"So if direct empirical evidence that something works is the only standard for funding, then what is the direct empirical evidence that an additional submarine or one more F-35 increases our security?"
"But that is what we are being asked to do in this budget."
"which taxpayer? Out of the almost $1 trillion in tax cuts in this budget, which are on the backs of all these other cuts."
"A $1.6 billion investment into what I call the wall to nowhere."
"show me a 100-foot wall, I will show you a 101-foot ladder."
"It leaves no question of what this administration values: greater gains for millionaires and corporations at the expense of American families."