Mike Johanns: “The changes Congress made to the Budget Control Act simply raise more money to spend more money.”

Just a word or two to both leaders. Thank you so much for your kind words. I also want to say thank you for mentioning my wife Stephanie. This has been a remarkable partnership for a lot of years, and I could not have done what I did…

I just hope we are not over-engineering something here.

But to anyone who might be listening in who is wondering if is it time to give up, it is not.

Our job is to try to figure out how we deal with that puzzle, that very difficult issue of how to provide services to people who need it.