I think that drawing up that legislation is more complicated and I think it is politically more challenging.

Our Nation's debt stands at $14 trillion.

I think that is an approach that we need to move or migrate toward.

I think on earmarks the argument--I do not know if Senator Levin made it while I was out of the room, but if we have a grant program, we will say it is a transportation program, so we have like $100 in it, and somebody comes along and we…

I would not have favored that, and I described it before you got here as giving the President--like putting a bazooka under the President's desk.

We need for the White House, the Executive Branch, to provide stronger leadership on long-term deficit reduction.

I think it would enhance the President's faith in the Legislative Branch to take on his requests.

I am actually encouraged that we are seeing a little bit of a restoration of bipartisan spirit in the Senate, which is good.

I am encouraged by what we are doing in these big deficits in a struggle to get an economy moving.

The President says it is wasteful spending. Secretary Gates says it is wasteful spending.

We finally, with the leadership of this man to my left and Senator McCain and this President, we basically pulled the plug on the F-22.