Sen. Paul Simon: “I think he has made an important point; this amendment is introduced for political cover only.”

A rising tide of red ink sinks all boats.

You face a much harsher judge than this Committee, and that is the judgment of history, and that judgment is likely to revolve around the question, did you restrict freedom or did you expand it.

Yes, it is. If any such right currently exists under 42 U.S.C. section 1983, this Act does nothing to preclude such an action.

Just in response to one item mentioned by my friend from Tennessee. He and I agree on Social Security. We differ on the Reid amendment. When he talks about 110 percent of debt versus GDP in 1945 after World War II, what that ignores is…