Max Baucus: “I will say to the body, the world, and also primarily to the Senate and the ranking member of the Budget Committee, of…”

“I will say to the body, the world, and also primarily to the Senate and the ranking member of the Budget Committee, of course, these are all issues--that is, those issues raised basically by the ranking member of the Budget Committee--that the Finance Committee is going to work on over the next several years. It is up to us, up to the committee, and up to this body to find the offsets to pay for them. We will do the very best we can. I think we don't want to get into a deficit situation.”