Bob Corker: “I think this statutory commission is our best hope at restoring fiscal sanity in this country. It is important that we…”

“I think this statutory commission is our best hope at restoring fiscal sanity in this country. It is important that we adopt it. I am proud to be a cosponsor of the amendment. There are a number of us on this side of the aisle who are cosponsors of the amendment. There are a number of Republicans who are cosponsors. But I am beginning to sense that there may be some political game-playing that is going to occur here, and it worries me. The leader, with all due respect--in a bipartisan moment, I am going to backtrack a little bit. I remember the Republican Party announcing that this was one of their priorities. Now all of a sudden we are hearing that the leader of the Republican Party is opposed to it. Think about that for a minute. Before the shores got rocky for Democrats politically, this was a great idea. Everybody here knows we are not going to fix this problem in the regular order. Everybody knows it.”