Kent Conrad actually said...

The only thing worse than being for this is being against it.

I believe history will condemn us all if we do not do substantially more for the decade than is in this budget.

I do not think Congress, the House or the Senate, are going to be very interested in bailouts to States.

we did get 11 of 18 to agree--five Democrats, five Republicans, one Independent. And we reduced the debt $4 trillion over the next 10 years.