“Thank you very much, Congressman Becerra, for your kind introduction, for your invitation to be here today, for your tremendous leadership in the Congress of the United States. This district is very well served and well led by your leadership in the Congress. Congressman Becerra is the Vice Chair of the House Democratic Caucus, he’s a powerful Member of the Ways and Means Committee, and because he has the confidence of his colleagues in the Congress, has served on every budget discussion that we’ve had – whether it was Simpson-Bowles, whether it was the Biden group, whether it was the Supercommittee that met toward the end of last year. In every coming together, we wanted our very best on the committee, most knowledgeable, values-based person who, again, had the confidence of our colleagues to make the difficult decisions. And these decisions are difficult.”