Kay Bailey Hutchison: “Isn't this huge debt and the deficit as important as all of these other factors?”

These are people who have done the right thing. They have saved. They have tried to make sure they didn't need any kind of government handout. They have earned Social Security--and that is not a government handout--and they want to know…

I have visited U.S. troops in harm's way in every conflict that we had when I was in the Senate.

How much time is remaining on our side? The PRESIDING OFFICER. There is 20 minutes remaining.

I think we all know that everybody in America is pretty much talking about the fiscal cliff, and that what will happen at the end of this year will have an enormous impact on the economy of our country and its future. There is no doubt…