Some of us are looking now at something like more than 30 years, relative to where our growth will be relative to our debt.

it's because we have the best-looking horse in the glue factory.

We have yet to I think summon the political will to address that long-term problem.

And lastly, your concern about the low amount of interest return and the risk taking, or the reaching for yield, is this creating another potential bubble?

What this legislation that the Senate has put together begins to do is deal with that third part.

It did not do the job. How do we know 10 years from now, 5 years from now, that we won't be faced with say 23 million illegal immigrants?

I don't think there is any difference here, I would think, or even in the Congress, relative to the importance of immigration to this country.

Shouldn't we have a policy in place that finally addresses this issue?

I am the son of an immigrant. Unfortunately, Mr. Norquist, I turned out to be both a lawyer and a senator.

I was here in 1986. I supported Ronald Reagan's immigration policy. At the time, we had 3 million illegals.

Getting to the essential functions and providing for the common defense is the highest, in my view, the highest essential function that this country has to address.