I think the characterization that $3 trillion in assets and $21 trillion in liabilities is not the full picture.
I just think we have got to get a picture of this.
I think he has offered up some very thoughtful and productive recommendations, and I think this is a process that we have got to start.
I want to applaud Senator Murray for her prior work and focus on this.
We need to have a nonpartisan conversation about a party-neutral process to fund the United States Government.
But I am a little confused, because if you just look at the Social Security and Medicare liabilities over 30 years, it is much bigger than $...
So it is bigger than just the accounting issue, and I think you have called that out in this Committee before.
Good on you and good on the Federal Government to get $100 billion out.
We have got to go big at this point, given the size of the financial crisis and the irresponsibility we have seen up here over the last 20 y...
We have a budget process that has only worked four times in 40 years.
I think given the situation we have in the U.S., ... this is a very timely time to have that really serious conversation in the U.N.