Judd Gregg: “You are adding to the debt that our kids are going to have to pay back.”

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 United States is one debt deal away from leading the entire world out of [its] economic doldrums.

Without the 99 nuclear power plants that operate in 30 States, carbon emissions from the U.S. electric sector would be approximately 25 percent higher.

In the end, you have to pay the debt ceiling because otherwise the government can't function, and the effect of that would be catastrophic.