It pains me that during our consideration of the 2011 budget, Congress degenerated into the politics of 'just say no.'

If we don't address the issue of wages, and health care and other things fit into that.

I want to see us start working together across the aisle to make this work for the American people.

So we are going to reduce our dependence on foreign oil, and then we are going to become dependent on China for our batteries, our solar panels, and everything else.

We have a psychological problem in the market because wages have been stagnant for 30 years.

We have got to get ourselves in a position where we all agree that the wealthiest... are going to have to pay more.

I believe that this needs to happen in the next year because if it doesn't, we are going to get into a political year.

And the next generation will look at us, and wonder if we made the right decision.

As some criticize the President's effort, just recognize that other sincere efforts that were made actually brought the deficit into primary balance later than the President's budget.

I think we all need to work together, especially to take actions, now, to deal with what are going to be projected deficits in the next 20 years.

In order to avoid shocking the fragile economy, the commission recommends waiting until 2012 to begin enacting programmatic spending cuts.