Olympia Snowe: “Mr. Chairman, today this Congress is faced with a very clear, very stark choice about our Nation's fiscal stability and…”

“Mr. Chairman, today this Congress is faced with a very clear, very stark choice about our Nation's fiscal stability and health, and about the kind of future we will bestow to the next generation of Americans. We can choose one of two distinct paths to that future. One is a path we have traveled before--a path of failure to make the tough but necessary choices, a path that binds us to the economic status-quo of trillions of dollars in debt and hundreds of billions of dollars in yearly deficits, and a path that prohibits American families and American workers from securing a higher standard of living, getting that long-awaited skilled job, or expanding the family business.”