John Ensign: “But the sooner we make them, maybe a little less painful.”

It is much easier to get re-elected when you are giving money away, basically.

You need to get out there in the real world and talk to folks.

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…

We need to get control of these entitlements for today.