Jim Nussle: “But is the money in there in this ``reckless'' plan the gentleman was suggesting?”

Everything should be on the table. The way I look at is trust the votes.

I would like to speak out of order for a moment just to thank the staff of the Budget Committee, Jim Bates, a very able staff that put together the bill. I also would like to thank so many of the leadership staff that do such good work…

I want to first thank all of the staff that worked so hard to bring us to this point in time and the leadership on the Budget Committee, and I would like to pay a special thanks to the floor staff and the official reporters and the clerk…

I, ignorantly, said at one point in time in my career that CBO sucks, and I have been apologizing for that for some time because these are good people who do a good job.