There will be severe consequences for not changing course.

In the end, people will recognize that their government has failed them.

States do not want or need the power to declare bankruptcy.

I certainly appreciate that.

Illinois has to reform its pension system, but it also has to reform its whole way of doing business...

I see no need for Federal intervention in these areas.

What I believe I saw and I believe a lot of folks saw was that the day is coming, the day of reckoning is coming when those stimulus funds run out.

States now say that more money would help them through their current rough patch. The reality, however, is that the money States receive from the stimulus has, in many ways, made them worse off.

The beauty of federalism lies in the fact that the National Government does not tell the States how to manage their own affairs, at least ideally.

But reckless spending fueled by bottomless borrowing and guaranteed by endless bailouts is an unsustainable course.

Mr. President, today, I am proud to reintroduce the Medication Therapy Management, MTM, Empowerment Act of 2011, with my colleagues from Minnesota, Senator Franken, from Ohio, Senator Brown, and from South Dakota, Senator Johnson. A recent…

I would hope, with the coordinating role that you see Director Clapper in, that he could overcome those territorial boundaries and make sure, especially within the IC community, that we have the tools we need.

In most cases would you agree that within the DNI they take that raw data that is available and analyze that to get their own snapshot?

In my view, an additional problem was that key judgments of this NIE were publicly released.

If all those techniques, if all those tools were as good as Mo-99, we'd use them today.

the unemployment rate for young veterans reached over 27 percent in February 2011, much higher than the non-veterans of that age.

It's used in 18 million procedures a year in the U.S. Every year, 18 million procedures.

Over the long run it costs less in the health care system. So we're talking about health care cost reduction.