Judd Gregg: “the Appropriations Committee mirrors the authorizing committees, but has the responsibility for allocating and…”

It makes no sense whatsoever, and it's apparently--certainly makes no sense for the same people to be urgently arguing to deal with climate change and then either quiet or urgently opposed to nuclear power.

To those still in denial, or even advocating steps that would make our debts even higher, please reconsider.

I think the appropriate way to approach this is to set the size of the government as a percent of GDP.

I think in order to get Republican buy-in on further revenues you are going to have to do policy changes in entitlement accounts that bend the curves in the outyear in a very substantial way, and make it clear that those accounts are…