I take offense about that. I think this is our irresponsibility over the last really 30 years... we have kicked this ball down the court.

By doing this, all we are doing is stealing from the future to make sure we do not have a problem for the next 18 years.

I just do not see, frankly, how we can pay that.

This partisanship that is in here, this should be like Foreign Relations, should be like Armed Services, should be like the Intelligence Committee, where we are talking in a bipartisan way to try to get at the solution to this thing.

Well, what I am really interested in is what the potential is by discretionary and mandatory.

The number one crisis we have right now, in my mind, is our ability to fund our future unfunded liabilities.

I think we have agreed on two things today... One is that we have got to move to ensure that benefits are not reduced, period.

the idea that this is a trumped-up, phony crisis is absolutely ridiculous.

I can assure you that I care very much about each one of those, but I also care about what happens past 2033.

I think the first goal here, in my opinion, is to make sure that we can live up to the obligations that we have right now.

What do we do for the beneficiaries past 2033?

your indictment of our partisanship is well deserved this morning

I do not want to be the member of the first generation that has to tell your generation that my generation is leaving your generation an America that is worse off.

That gridlock is not going--I just do not see how we are going to solve this without growing the economy.

So the 20 and the 80, is that just on discretionary, or is that overall in the total budget?

I think it would be great if we could get a summary of that, even if it is bracketed by estimates, educated estimates.

I agree with the Ranking Member that what we are talking about today really is not a partisan issue.

So the $80 billion that is open, that is still out there--