Jeff Sessions actually said...

"We need to reduce our deficits"

"Isn't your compromise hiding over a half trillion dollars in tax increases over the current baseline?"

"This is not a compromise plan. It is a tax-and-spend plan that does not alter the debt course of America, and that debt course, as Mr. Bowles told us, is unsustainable at this point."

"We just had a $616 billion tax increase, averaging about $60 billion a year extra income, and we are having recovery from the recession, the slowest in a decade but some recovery, and that results in ..."