It is not 2020 and 2030 that we need to worry about. It is 2017, 2015, when our bonds are no longer salable.

You have highlighted the fact that one of the primary drivers of the growth in the government and the spending which is going to create this structural deficit is health care costs, especially as it relates to the aging population, is that…

So when we hear the House talking about--the House leadership talking about changing health care so that insurance is fully deductible and so that the Cadillac plans are given advantageous tax treatment, that is actually going in the wrong…

I think we can take judicial notice of the fact that a socialist Senator from Vermont and a conservative Senator from New Hampshire are not going to agree.

I actually think it is malfeasance to present a budget which, by its own terms and numbers, leads us down a path which ends in insolvency for this Nation.

The debt is the threat. And it is more than a threat now. It is a cataclysmic event facing us.

the whole concept of the TARP was that as we recoup the money, we would use it to pay down the debt

You are adding to the debt that our kids are going to have to pay back.

The moneys recouped from the TARP shall be paid into the general fund of the Treasury for reduction of the public debt.

It has become a piggy bank which adds to our deficit, adds to our debt, and gets put on our kids' backs.

I share my colleagues' gratification at the outpouring from not only the United States, but from the rest of the world, to try and respond to this tragedy.

Finally, one of the things that is a big issue in New Hampshire, because we have a higher-than-usual percentage of individual dwellings, both homes and commercial buildings--and so, our energy costs are very high.

I think this other issue may have been raised by others, as well, but we have a number of small- to medium-sized businesses in New Hampshire that are doing very innovative things when it comes to new energy technologies.

What more can we do to help businesses like Warner Power and some of the other small- and medium-sized businesses to commercialize those technologies that they're working on?

I want to begin by echoing what you heard from Senators Kerry and Lugar, our thanks for your being here today.

Essentially, we will reduce the quality of life of our Nation and of our children and our children's children if we do not do something about the burden of the debt.

The single most important thing we can do in terms of our fiscal future is to put in place a process that can lead to a conclusion.

No one party can or will do this on its own.