David Walker: “Quite frankly anybody who says -- I don't care who they are, who says they will vote against the debt ceiling increase…”

The power resides with the Congress of the United States and the President of the United States.

What keeps me up at night is the deteriorating financial condition of the country, escalating deficits and debt, and what it could mean to our future as our country and my grandchildren.

We need comprehensive tax reform. Maybe we ought to think about allowing a deduction for corporate dividends.

There is only one kind of mandate that occurred in the election in November, because the public returned the Republicans to the House, the Democrats to the Senate, and President Obama to the White House.