Judd Gregg: “We will hold off and reserve the right on that. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Democratic leader.”

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

If our goal is to reach a deal, we should not get engaged in this fight.

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.

the budget process is dysfunctional. That's a generous term for it.