Senator Wicker just talked for a minute about this. What does the Senator think? Would it be great to have the chairman of the Finance Committee be named Senator Orrin Hatch?

I thank Senator Wicker for raising this point because we need to discuss this, and the American people need to ask themselves who is telling the truth about this and who is accurate about this. A group of us spoke--40 or more…

We have heard it said that 40 percent of what we spend every day is borrowed. Really, $4 billion a day is what we borrow. People probably think that can't be true, that 40 cents of every dollar we spend and put out the door has to be…

Well, it is a challenge we have to face, and it is not easy. It will be a challenge and it will be difficult and it will force us to make difficult choices. But I feel very frustrated. We are from small towns in America. Where we grew up…

So what we did in this body, when the budgets were brought up--they brought up the House budget--called the Ryan budget-- and we brought up the President's budget, and Senator Toomey and others had a budget, and every one of them was…

Absolutely. The party with the majority, 53 Senators, ought to be able to pass a budget. We passed a budget with 51 senators one time. A budget allows us to control everything but Social Security. We can't touch Social Security but we can…

Senator Olympia Snowe, who is not running again, is frustrated with this body and pointed out yesterday on the Senate floor that we voted in this body a few years ago up until November 1. We act like we have to be out by the middle of…

Senator Reid was, I think, stung this morning when remarks were made about the failure of the Senate to pass a budget or to move a single appropriations bill. For the first time in over 100 years, I understand, not a single appropriations…

as the Chairs of the debt commission-- Simpson and Bowles--told the Budget Committee, this Nation has never faced a more predictable financial crisis. I would say this Nation has never faced a more difficult financial challenge. We have…

I will say to my colleague, I appreciate his eloquence and his advocacy. He gave us a real partisan speech this morning. I will just ask a few things of one of our leaders in the Senate, Mr. Durbin. What about the responsibility of this…

before the Senator leaves, I would ask him a question. And the reason I am asking Senator Coburn about this is because there is no one of these 100 Senators here today who has spent more hours, effort and time in dealing with the…

I thank the Senator from Oklahoma. He served on the debt commission. He is steeped in the challenges facing our country and he is working hard to fix our problems. I salute Senator Burr for coming forward with a proposal that helps…