Kay Bailey Hutchison: “If I can clarify, I think the Senator from California is saying the highway bill will get 2\1/2\ minutes, and we will…”

there is a lot of buzzing going on around the Capitol today. Here we are on New Year's Eve, and so many of us had hoped we would have an agreement that would be really a big agreement, a long-term agreement that we would have liked to have…

I have a very different opinion today.

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 know there are those on my side who would also like to have a conference to talk about this. Could we have an indication as to the timeframe of the vote?