Judd Gregg: “The Senator was pointing out that there are three elements of casualty loss. Two of them you are not taxed on and this…”

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

The classic example of this is ObamaCare. It was pushed through on a partisan vote.

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…

Had it been actually a legislative vehicle versus a commission, we probably would be out of the woods right now on our deficit and debt issues.