John B. Breaux: “The agency has spoken pretty clearly. They are very inhospitable to mergers.”

Let me suggest it is a program that is more popular today than the Congress that wrote it.

My opinion is that in order to ever reach an agreement between the two parties, Congress is going to have to combine the best of what government can do with the best of what the private sector can do and put the two together.

The fundraising and the traveling, things she's done for the party, I mean, she's a real rock star on the fundraising circuit.

I think it's hers to lose. I think it's the consensus among Democrats that I've talked to that she's clearly in the lead, is clearly the person that they have to beat.