The American people ought to know in advance whether they're turning the process over to the courts or not.

I think we need--if we're going to pass a balanced budget amendment, which I do not support--to spell out exactly how it's going to be enforced.

I do think it's a significant distinction.

I'm someone who served as a county executive and lived under the strictures of a balanced budget amendment, and thus on some level am intuitively drawn to them as a potential budgetary solution.

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, then you wouldn't have to worry about…

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.

I thank the Senator. Senator Rubio and I have come to floor today to talk about our shared experiences. In my home State of Delaware, over the 1 year I have been a Senator--and over the years before that, I served in county government--I…

We together yesterday announced the introduction of the AGREE Act, the American Growth Recovery Entrepreneurship and Empowerment Act, which conveniently spells out ``agree.'' The core principle, as Senator Rubio described, was for a real…

That is right. I have gotten immediate response from Twitter, e-mail, et cetera, in my office account. I got a tweet from Jason, who wrote: Kudos . . . for introducing jobs-creating legislation. Good to see detailed plans rather than…

I am hopeful that out of this hearing we'll move forward with both Pryor's bill and the chairman's bill.

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.