Judd Gregg: “As the Senator knows, I did yield to the Senator to make an opening statement. The understanding was it would be for…”

I would suggest that on issues that involve all Americans, where pretty much everybody is affected, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and tax reform, that if you push forward in a partisan way, at least 50 percent, maybe a little less…

We cannot continue to let health care costs rise faster than our National income.

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.

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