We face one of the worst budget forecasts I have ever seen.

I wish every colleague of ours in the House and the Senate, and I wish every American could hear the description you just gave.

And this represents the best of our democracy, having a serious debate about serious things.

We should not take that off the table because I think your counsel there is excellent.

We will be judged whether we were responsible or not.

my own view is it will probably be in that 4 percent of GDP range as they do their own rescoring of all of this.

the commitment we made to the Secretary's people was we would get him out of here at 12:15, and we are close to that.

You cannot grow the Government at that rate and catch your tail.

I very much want to see that separate, not because I am not supporting doing something on cap-and-trade, because I am and have very specific ways that I believe that we can work together to get there.

I commend you for having a budget that is a net tax cut for the middle class of this country.

Why don't you go back to the Bush years when revenues were up to 18.9 percent of GDP?