I believe we were perilously close to that.

Nobody believes that that is sustainable.

It is really hard to find something, I think, that works better than these Build America Bonds.

We can't have a circumstance in which dollars, precious dollars that are being allocated for the nation's defense are wasted.

If you take on too much debt, it affects the rate of economic growth in a country adversely.

You are going to have to do something on the revenue side as well.

I believe strongly, it is critically important that we run deficits and add the debt in the short term.

There is really no alternative.

We are also a major energy State.

My calculus tells me that me that this year we will hit gross debt to GDP of just over 90 percent.

I believe the risk to Medicare and Social Security recipients is a failure to act in a timely way to deal with the long-term debt trajectory that virtually every expert that has come before this Committee says is unsustainable.