10/28/2009
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"The partisanship that we confront and the polarization is a far bigger issue than whether we vote by proxy or vote in person."
"It would vest in the Treasury secretary the authority to raise the debt ceiling while still reserving to Congress the authority to overrule that decision if Congress ever wanted to exercise that autho..."
"I wish I shared that 100 percent certainty. One of the reasons why I started working on this seven years ago was because of my increasing fear that god forbid because of our increasing political dysfu..."
"the one justification for keeping the debt ceiling... is that it is an effective extortion measure."