Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

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...

we run a health care system in the United States that is grotesquely expensive per capita compared to any other industrialized nation.