“I haven’t heard a single Senate Republican say that they’d
be willing to raise a dime in taxes to turn off the sequester.”
---Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell
State of the Union (CNN) March 3, 2013
"What I would like to see happen is that we as Republicans put $600 billion of new revenue on the table by flattening the tax
code, eliminating deductions and go to where the real money is over
time---entitlement reform, and find a substitute for sequestration in a big
deal, not a small deal.”
---Republican Senator Lindsay Graham
Face the Nation (CBS) March 3, 2013
