I can assure you that I care very much about each one of those, but I also care about what happens past 2033.
I think the first goal here, in my opinion, is to make sure that we can live up to the obligations that we have right now.
What do we do for the beneficiaries past 2033?
your indictment of our partisanship is well deserved this morning
I do not want to be the member of the first generation that has to tell your generation that my generation is leaving your generation an Ame...
That gridlock is not going--I just do not see how we are going to solve this without growing the economy.
So the 20 and the 80, is that just on discretionary, or is that overall in the total budget?
I think it would be great if we could get a summary of that, even if it is bracketed by estimates, educated estimates.
I agree with the Ranking Member that what we are talking about today really is not a partisan issue.
The fiscal irresponsibility of the last 30 years cannot continue. It just cannot.
The last time we had a balanced budget in this country, we had a Democratic President and we had a Republican Congress.