Despite the urgent need to rein in our runaway debt, the President's budget would add $13 trillion to debt--an unconscionable burden we're imposing on our economy today and our children tomorrow.

We feel that it is our responsibility to do things differently, to lead where the President has fallen short.

But I sincerely wonder about that.

I just wanted to say how disappointed we are that the President has failed to lead on the most important fiscal challenges of our time.

you guys have saved the auto industry.

If you want to talk about budgets, why don't you look at our 2009 budget, which was the last budget we as a conference actually did, instead of an individual piece of legislation that I introduced?

I don't see how you can square Mr. Carney... the debt goes from $13 trillion to $26 trillion.

Let's not say that we are only for clean debt limits when, just a year ago, the President was fine with attaching things on debt limit.

I question the assertion of primary balance, given that the final arbiter, CBO, on this is using a different set of projections.

These centers are not Democratic centers or Republican centers, they are based on need, aren't they?

It would seem to me that now is the time, the campaign is over, to try to improve and correct and get a broad-based consensus as to how we can better serve America in terms of health care.

Doctors don't make partisanship a part of their career.

I think it is good for the Nation to better understand the program that the President has offered us.

This, to me, is a success story. And we ought to, as a Congress, be focusing on the facts and make it work better.

But tax increases affect economic vitality and affect behavior and growth.

Which is the long-term trajectory.

Making a multi-year commitment to the principles embodied in the President's Budget will reduce the risk of future crises.

Agreed. So, last month, Moody's gave us a--they laid out a debt trajectory in which the U.S. Could face a credit rating downgrade by mid-decade.