It is not easy.

I think you made a really good point that if we do not get our health care costs under control, it is unlikely that our fiscal condition can be saved.

CBO also made the point that you simply cannot cache that level of spending with new taxes, at least under the income tax code.

I would say to my colleague from Maine that, at the risk of getting him in trouble, it sounded like he was channeling Tom Coburn more than Bernie Sanders.

If Congress were to raise the debt limit without--without--addressing the underlying problem of spending, doing nothing on it, which is what a lot of folks are recommending, including the President, would that make businesses more or less…

I think it is irresponsible for the administration to take this position that we are not even going to talk to Congress about dealing with raising the debt limit to historic levels.

70 percent of the benefit of a lower rate on the corporate side is going to go to who? The workers.

I am glad you said in your budget for the first time that you ought to not use these preference reductions or loophole closures for the budget deficit generally but for revenue-neutral tax reform.

The notion that we can continue careening down this path of record debt... is really dangerous.

We are in a deep fiscal hole. We have never experienced this as a country.

This is about those workers, again, middle-class Americans who are trying to keep their job or get a job and have decent pay when their pay has gone down almost 4,500 bucks over the past several years on average.