Byron Dorgan: “I held up the Washington Post and I cited the discussion on the floor of the Senate. The Senator from Maryland now comes…”

“I held up the Washington Post and I cited the discussion on the floor of the Senate. The Senator from Maryland now comes to us and says, ``You know, we've got these huge deficits,'' and all these other folks say, ``Gee, we're moving in the right direction. What we need to do is more of what we've been doing.'' Did the Senator graduate in the bottom of his high school class? Is he a protectionist? Is that all this means? Or does the Senator from Maryland understand what the rest of these folks don't, that deficits in the long term have to be repaid?”