Judd Gregg: “I simply note that we will be voting on this, hopefully, later today when we have more of a contingency available to…”

You know, the United States is one debt deal away from leading the entire world out of economic doldrums.

I think Simpson-Bowles got it right on this point. We reduced deductions and exemptions so that we generated $1.1 trillion of revenue every year.

I think the appropriate way to approach this is to set the size of the government as a percent of GDP.

I happen to think that if you're going to do budgets and you're going to pass budgets on a partisan basis, the budget becomes irrelevant.