John Ensign: “We need to design better systems.”

But the sooner we make them, maybe a little less painful.

I am going to reluctantly support H.R. 1. It reduces government spending by about $61 billion below last year's levels. The reason I am reluctantly supporting it is because I don't think it goes far enough. We have heard the other side…

The debt that you are talking about, the interest on the debt, you have said that is unsustainable.

The important thing is getting some of these issues out on the table.