"The trust for the USFS is, perhaps, in short supply with some of the colleagues--certainly some of my constituents."
"I want to center on the Affordable Care Act or law I guess."
"I think we have grossly underestimated the number of employees that will lose their employer coverage plan under this healthcare act."
"Madam Secretary, I would like to kind of go back to the earlier questions I was asking about what I consider just really understated cost estimates for the healthcare act."
"This is a very complex bill, 2,700 pages."
"If I am right, if my fears come true, we could be looking at tens of millions of people put in the exchanges at the tune of $5,000 to $7,000 in subsidies."
"I realize it is not an easy problem, but we have been talking about securing our borders for years."
"I would hope it would never get to this point, but TSA Administrator Pistole was asked, I believe last week, if work stoppages or slowdowns occurred, would he be willing to fire TSA screeners en masse..."
"The defense of our homeland is a top priority of our Nation, so I look forward to working with you."
"I guess I agree with my colleagues that we are not seeing real leadership being presented by the President here and it is disappointing."
"Overall, the U.S. economy has never really generated much more than about 18.8 percent of GDP in terms of revenue."