Judd Gregg: “I believe my unanimous consent request was for 20 minutes for the Senator from Oregon, and I will add to that that the…”

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

I happen to think that if you're going to do budgets and you're going to pass budgets on a partisan basis, the budget becomes irrelevant.

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.

The Simpson-Bowles Commission...came to the conclusion that on our present path this Nation goes bankrupt.