Judd Gregg: “Why don't we give 5 minutes to Senator Dorgan, and then I will respond. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from North…”

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

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.

the budget process is dysfunctional. That's a generous term for it.

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.