Judd Gregg: “we are facing a Government that has got a long-term debt which is unsustainable”

Meeting state and national carbon reduction goals will be compromised without existing nuclear power plants.

the policies behind getting these numbers under control are extremely difficult politically, because they involve very tough decisions.

Your careers may end happily before the reckoning. Your reelections may not be threatened by your inaction. But your consciences should be.

I think Dr. Rivlin is absolutely correct on both points, and Simpson-Bowles did the same thing that Domenici-Rivlin did, which was to actually increase benefits to single women over 85, and low-income individuals.