Judd Gregg: “we are now proceeding to the budget? The PRESIDENT pro tempore. That is correct. The budget is before the Senate.”

My experience in these debates, the person who wins is the person who establishes himself with the American people toward the audience, this can be a huge audience, as being one reasonably likable.

Had it been actually a legislative vehicle versus a commission, we probably would be out of the woods right now on our deficit and debt issues.

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.