Judd Gregg: “I am not yielding the floor. I am asking the Senator from North Dakota if he would like to get on with the amendment…”

I am a great believer in investing in infrastructure. I believe that that does give you a very significant return.

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.

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

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.