We need to help our colleagues understand what the risk is of a failure to address our long-term imbalances.

I believe that the buildup of Federal debt is the single biggest threat to our Nation's long-term economic security.

I am very, very concerned about some of these things that I hear about and read in the newspaper might be in this package.

the words of Senator Gregg are wise admonitions, that while we do short-term things to lift the economy, we have got to guard against doing things that would make our long-term circumstance worse.

I would much prefer, sign me up enthusiastically for what Senator Gregg has described as investment that is going to make us more efficient and more competitive.

I thought the rebate thing was largely a bust.

the new deficit projections, as I said yesterday, are jaw-dropping.

President Obama is walking into a fiscal disaster of stunning proportion.

This requires strong action, determined action.

The reimbursement system has to change.

health care is where it is at.