01/06/2011
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"We all need to know there are two funding sources here: the base budget and overseas contingency operations."
"Isn't your compromise hiding over a half trillion dollars in tax increases over the current baseline?"
"there is a strong feeling in Congress that we have--it will be very corrosive of public integrity and the integrity of Congress to waltz in now and say less than 2 years later, about 2 years later, we..."
"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."