Judd Gregg: “Why don't we plan to do it that way. Then move to Senator Hutchison. With that being the general lay of the land, let's…”

the first obligation of a national government is national defense, in my opinion.

A lot of that economic growth was driven by a bubble, and I don't really think we want to revisit that.

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.