07/13/2011
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"A lot of you all here will help us muddle through that process, and point out the good, and the bad, the ugly, and maybe, working with my colleagues, we could find areas of compromise."
"I think it would be safe to say that no one envisioned this world in which we live in technologically, no one envisioned in '96."
"if we don't get a handle on our mandatory spending programs, they will end up consuming the small blue portion, which is our discretionary budget."
"the importance of this debate for rural America is, there is nowhere else to go."