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.

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?

The testing has just run wild--to use their word--run wild in the classroom.

We have other priorities. We want to cut taxes for folks, whatever. If that were to happen, that gives the Federal Government an interest.