Max Baucus actually said...

Let me repeat that: we must maintain or strengthen the protections beneficiaries enjoy today.

The hearing will come to order. It seems we are going to have to go with the flow here and call audibles as we proceed.

If the other side is completely intransigent that the president has probably no choice but to say OK, we're going to go over the cliff. That...

If the other side is completely intransigent, that the president has probably no choice but to say, OK, we're going to go over the cliff. Th...