This is not a Republican thing. It is bipartisan.

there is no substitute for actually going to look at stuff on the ground.

Because we have been right so far, and the CBO has been wrong. That is why they should trust us.

I serve the law. I serve the statute. That is what I do.

So we absolutely do defend the tax bill and think it has been a tremendous benefit to the American people.

I love CRAs. As a bureaucrat, which for better or worse is what I am now--I am a member of the bureaucracy, I am a member of the executive branch of government, I am a bureaucrat, I am one director for one bureau, right--clarity is my…

It may be, Mr. Yoder, that individual agencies are not compliant right now.

I think if you have a five-member commission, it sort of reduces the dramatic swings that you might get from a single-person Director.

the only good guy left

What that agency does in managing the Federal estate is phenomenally important.

It will have to be something other than an omnibus because we are not signing one.

Actually, it is a little deeper than that, Mr. Chairman. It is not that I don't have to appear before the Appropriation Committees.

I don't think anybody has ever been charged criminally with a violation of the antideficiency statute.

I am a little disturbed.

Gary Cohn is one of the smartest people I have worked with. Having the chance to collaborate with him has been one of the highlights of my career in public service.

The President is serious in his threat not to sign another omni.

I think it is a misunderstanding of the role of OMB.

The budget we sent up last year is the largest proposed reform of mandatory spending in the history of budgets.