Thomas Daschle: “It is always better to build a child than to repair an adult.”

It will use Social Security and Medicare surpluses. It will create the same deficit situation, I promise you, as we have seen all through the 1980s and early `90s.

The American people, by survey after survey, say they want these tax loopholes closed when they are informed particularly of the loopholes which allow corporations to shift revenue to a tax haven.

This is something that really does deserve a framework, a national framework.

Perfection is not an option.