Tom Carper actually said...

What I want to do is to provide for a reasonable response when a President says, my hands are tied.

We are running a deficit this year of about $1.5 trillion. We need to look at almost every corner of our budget

We are like Moses standing on the mountain top looking at the promised land.

But one of the problems we ran into in the 1990's was, at a time when we were constrained for a while with revenue growth, we saw the operat...