Kay Bailey Hutchison: “I want to thank you, Madam Chairman, because you have indeed been a partner in trying to make the very best efforts for…”

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…

This is a little rich.

Decisions on enlargement are for NATO and the nation in question; no other outside country, such as Russia, has a voice in the process.

let me just say that is not the only thing we could do. We could change the cost of living to the chained consumer price index. That would be OK. It wouldn't get us as much of a deficit reduction over 75 years--a chained CPI--but it would…