Brian Higgins: “What you need is mutual steps here.”

Congress' inability to make a budget fully with approved appropriations bills virtually every single year... hurts the world economy as well.

The validity of the public debt shall not be questioned. This is not a political negotiation, this is a moral and legal obligation to be honored.

I think that would be a great public service the Congressional Budget Office could provide to the United States Congress

The budget deficit...has dropped to 5.5 percent at the end of last year.