Lloyd Bentsen: “just so I understand what the gentleman is saying, this rule will effectively knock out the Berman language as it…”

If there's a vote on this, Bob, I'm sure I can count on your vote.

No. The Republican economic program has solved that problem. There is no risk now of our paying down the national debt. In fact, if the gentleman will look here on the projections what we received from the Congressional Budget Office, last…

If we fail to fix [the system] now, the next financial crisis we face will again reveal its flaws.

once again our Republican colleagues have decided to choose politics over policy. And tonight, as we head into the next morning, we are going to pass a bill that will never pass the other body. And, quite frankly, if it were to pass, I do…