I have spent a lot of time on the floor talking about it. I have got kids that I am worried about, and we have got to get a hold of it--we really do--in a bipartisan way.

Can you think of anything that would be more destructive to my desire to pay down our deficit than to fail to raise the debt ceiling--raise the interest rate?

It is a political risk.

How do you assess the risk that if we end up driving this car over the cliff with our eyes wide open, we could see a downturn in our economy?

I appreciate your holding this hearing, and, Senator Lugar, your leadership on this issue has made a huge difference.

This is a record for us. I think we had three panelists two weeks ago and two panelists this week.

Higher interest rates, uncertainty, fiscal contraction--all those... It would lead to higher unemployment.

What does it mean to me when I go to buy a car or to get a bank loan or to buy my house or to go to the grocery store?

I do get concerned at times that I think many American businesses have this eye of this wonderful opportunity of the Chinese markets and sometimes sacrifice standards, intellectual property, adhere to restrictions to get into the Chinese…

One of the critical ways of doing that is making sure that these export markets are as robust and as open as they can be for American goods and products.

There is a lot of concern in my State about how we are going to get this economy back on track and what we are going to do about the jobs that have been permanently lost in this recession.