Bill Clinton actually said...

I don't think that's an acceptable resolution to this, and I hope that we can work together and work through this.

Given the urgent need to get the pay increase out and to begin the modernization programs, it was the right thing to do.

I will not allow Congress to raise its own pay and fund its own pork-barrel projects and still make devastating across-the-board cuts in eve...

This untold story is one of great patriotism and heroism.