John Ensign: “This country is literally headed for a financial crisis that we maybe have never seen.”

We need to get control of these entitlements for today.

This is a very important hearing today and I want to thank all of our witnesses who have taken the time out of their schedules to testify.

We need to design better systems.

The House bill needs to be the floor for what we accomplish out of this process. The House bill isn't nearly enough, and we cannot allow this process to capture a modest improvement in the name of compromise by watering it down to a…