We have got a crisis. This financial crisis, however you look at it, is out of control.
I think that is right.
I would encourage the committee to look at the total responsibility we have to our taxpayers in terms of the total payment over the next 30 ...
I take offense about that. I think this is our irresponsibility over the last really 30 years... we have kicked this ball down the court.
By doing this, all we are doing is stealing from the future to make sure we do not have a problem for the next 18 years.
I just do not see, frankly, how we can pay that.
This partisanship that is in here, this should be like Foreign Relations, should be like Armed Services, should be like the Intelligence Com...
Well, what I am really interested in is what the potential is by discretionary and mandatory.
The number one crisis we have right now, in my mind, is our ability to fund our future unfunded liabilities.
I think we have agreed on two things today... One is that we have got to move to ensure that benefits are not reduced, period.
the idea that this is a trumped-up, phony crisis is absolutely ridiculous.