Political Quotes

Had it been actually a legislative vehicle versus a commission, we probably would be out of the woods right now on our deficit and debt issues.

There are very tough votes that are going to have to be made here that have nothing to do with whether or not you are for or against a balanced-budget amendment.

In my view, if the Durbin approach was followed, it should be--that Commission should report by Easter and vote on it before the summer recession.

The budget process is probably not going to be that process, because the budget process is inherently partisan.