the fact that we only got 53 votes for setting up a commission in the statutes that you and Senator Gregg proposed I think is a shame.

there are going to be certain exceptions for it.

That says a lot about the willingness of folks to get our fiscal house in order.

we are going to be voting on a so-called pay-as-you-go amendment, and that sounds awfully good.

Well, I want to ask you about that because you said in the second 10 years--if I recall, your projection was if the Senate health bill passed, the second 10-year period it would come down in the range of $650 billion to $1.3 trillion.

If those commercial rockets don't work, then for the foreseeable future of the next decade or so, we are going to be relying on the Russians just to get to and from our Space Station.

I want to ask you a friendly question and I want to ask you an unfriendly question.

the whole thing, we are going to forgive about $1.6 trillion that we are not going to pay.

I choose to disagree with that characterization. It was a namby-pamby watered-down statement that was oblique, at best.

Well, now, is it not true that one of the things that you cannot score when you do a score for the Senate health bill is the insurance reforms, things like that insurance companies cannot suddenly cancel you for pre-existing conditions...

You can't do it on the cheap and that is the big difference.