Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

We need to have a stronger international leadership to deal with the complexities of what is happening in our oceans.

Emphasizes the need for global leadership on ocean issues.

05/10/2010

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You have said before, Dr. Elmendorf, that health care is a very big part of our debt and deficit problem going out. Is that still true?

My belief is that solving that problem with cuts while in a recession has been proven by experience to be a failed strategy.

If discussion of the debt and deficit is nothing more than a leverage point, a fulcrum to attack spending programs...

If you want to look at this as a serious debt and deficit problem... it drops the major part of the deficit reduction opportunity...