Judd Gregg: “I suggest that the Senator from Oregon can do his statement in approximately half the time, 7\1/2\ minutes. Is that…”

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

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

A lot of that economic growth was driven by a bubble, and I don't really think we want to revisit that.

Why would we do it? Because it makes no sense, from the standpoint of policy.