Judd Gregg: “Whichever. Twelve is fine to me. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.”

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…

Design the programs. Decide how large the government is going to be. Do a tax reform to finance it.

the policies behind getting these numbers under control are extremely difficult politically, because they involve very tough decisions.

the issue for nuclear is that, because it does these good things, like reduce carbon and have reliability and be part of the diversity mix, it gets no credit for this in the marketplace.