05/10/2011
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"The American people ought to know in advance whether they're turning the process over to the courts or not."
"I think most of the members I've gotten to know in my year so far agree that we are fiscally on an unsustainable path."
"Unless you specified in the amendment to the Constitution that the usual rules about standing, political question, ripeness, and mootness were changed specifically for the balanced budget amendment, t..."
"I think that's the way in which you can build the kind of broad consensus that Senator Murkowski was talking about in order to make something that is both sensible and has a chance of enduring."