Judd Gregg: “And that is why the Commission was set up and was asked to put this report forward, because there was a belief that we…”

Your careers may end happily before the reckoning. Your reelections may not be threatened by your inaction. But your consciences should be.

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

In the end, you have to pay the debt ceiling because otherwise the government can't function, and the effect of that would be catastrophic.

Why would we do it? Because it makes no sense, from the standpoint of policy.