Tom Coburn: “An on-the-record determination can only be made positively.”

the three Cs. Communicate and compromise, those are the secrets for a vibrant democracy.

We have something we call 'maintenance of effort' that we use in other programs, educational programs, when there is Federal money, we say to States, 'You have to maintain effort.'

What do they make, Senator Heitkamp, about $6 or $7 billion a year?

You have lost their confidence--and that is not one party--that is both parties.