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That means setting up a definable process for getting to closure on an agreement on entitlement spending and on revenues.

The key difficulty facing the Congress now, I think, is to legislate or in other ways lock in future deficit reduction.

the government is going to go from 20 percent of GDP to 24 percent of GDP. That spending is the driver, in large part, of the gap that is causing the deficit and the debt which is going to bankrupt the country.

I think in order to get Republican buy-in on further revenues you are going to have to do policy changes in entitlement accounts that bend the curves in the outyear in a very substantial way, and make it clear that those accounts are…