Brian Higgins: “the Federal Government is part of a public-private partnership”

The American economy is--we are 25 percent of the world's economy.

$47 billion in Medicare provided payments that are due June 1 would not go out.

We paid $400 billion down on the national debt. That kind of growth was only made possible by the investment that this Congress made in the American people and the growth of the American economy.

$25 billion in Social Security benefits would not be sent out.