Judd Gregg: “Yes. This is a unanimous consent request to strike the language. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?”

The United States is one debt deal away from leading the entire world out of [its] economic doldrums.

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.

That is actually why I was so encouraged by the President putting 'change CPI' on the table.