I want to echo the comments from Senator Reed and many other of my colleagues about the need to preserve independent funding for the CFPB.
And, by the way, to boot, wouldn't that hurt the economy?
Better to do it through 2013 than do it a month at a time?
But if we do not raise the debt ceiling after August 2nd, that would require us to stop paying almost half of our other ...
But I am not talking about the long-term deficit. I am talking about renewal of the debt ceiling by such a little amount...
Many of us have conflicted feelings about this approach because, on the one hand, it would ensure we do not default, but...
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
It would be better to do both than just one.
OK, and that is the outcome some of us are working toward right now, so I appreciate that, because to do one without the...
So you do not agree with those that--that in a sense is default, right?
It is amazing that we have people in this room who supported trillions in tax cuts and two unpaid-for wars, but now say ...