Judd Gregg: “the next item of business will be Senator Byrd's amendment. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from North Dakota.”

America is one debt deal away from leading the world out of its economic doldrums.

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

We have to figure out how to do the deal that straightens this out.

A lot of that economic growth was driven by a bubble, and I don't really think we want to revisit that.