We are looking at the top-line number as if it was as rational set of cuts, when in effect this was set up to be the most irrational.

Senator Warner had a particular focus as Governor on enrolling children in health insurance.

I would concur that maybe the defense planning for sequestration was not that good.

I very much believe you have to have a balanced approach, revenues, I do believe entitlement reform has to be part of this mix.

Virginia is ground zero on this issue because we have such a high preponderance of defense

I would not have been here if there had not been a student loan program.

I believe that it is going to require revenues and entitlement reforms.

It is on us. We have got to show a willingness to listen to each other and compromise.

Our percent of GDP investing in infrastructure is pitifully small.

Many of us have cited the Simpson-Bowles report as a guideline that, while not perfect, set out meaningful deficit reduction.

The right answer for this problem is dialogue and compromise.

I ask you to end the austerity budgeting that led to sequestration and ultimately these furloughs.

I agree that entitlement reform has to be part of the mix.

At $16.5 trillion in debt that goes up $3 billion a day, if we were to have interest rates at anything close to historic levels already, we would see interest costs alone on that debt outcourse Medicare at this point.

I 100 percent believe... you have got to grow this budget.

I have put forward some of those approaches in past efforts, as you are aware, on both sides of the ledger.

You are going to have at least a 750,000 job hit.

We will be costing the taxpayer money under the guise of savings.

We need to listen. We need to compromise.

a critical component of a balanced approach is ensuring that the burden of deficit reduction is not borne solely by the middle class, seniors, and most vulnerable families.

I do believe an investment component in a budget is a responsible and reasonable thing.

the idea that we are ever going to go back to a sustainable fiscal circumstance with anything around the 18.6 or even 19 percent is just not in the realm of reality

I would rather it get lower than that, but it is in the right direction.

we are going to be under tight fiscal constraints for as far as the eye can see, and we just do not have room for inefficient programs in this Federal Government

I actually think the overwhelming majority of Americans would believe, if rather than looking at the dramatic fall off the cliff that Social Security is going to hit--and I actually believe earlier than 2033--you know, I commend you for…