This is simply a bidding game. It is a political bidding game to get support that they care more about this issue than the president. |
This shows that extremism in leadership is not rewarded. |
This was tried once before in America, when the liberty and happiness rights of the slaveholder were put over the life and liberty rights of the slave. But unlike abortion today, in most states even the slaveholder did not have unlimited right to kill his slave, |
To me, there's a lot of upside |
unfortunate, it was disappointing. It was uncalled for. I hope he thinks better of it and retracts his statement. |
We are not cutting health care services to the beneficiaries. We have squeezed some fraud out. We have squeezed providers. |
We did our job well and everyone knows it. By falsely claiming that we got it wrong, Rick Santorum is continuing his misguided crusade against the National Weather Service. |
We have been working on reconciliation - that's the main thing, |
We have just in Pennsylvania alone, 300 years worth of coal sitting in the ground that we aren't really utilizing now because of concern for the environment, and it's a legitimate concern, but one that we can overcome, |
We need to get the regular team out of there, and someone who is going to be there for the long term, in there. (That person) would most likely be head of this new organization that would be set up to help the recovery effort, |
We now know the parameters of the debate -- it's between $1.2 trillion and $1.6 (trillion). Our goal is to get it as close to $1.6 (trillion) as we can. |
We really have an obligation to keep our eye on the ball here, ... The ball is helping those, the needy, in our society. |
We see it day in, day out around here. There is no agenda, there are no solutions to problems, there's no trying to get our fiscal house in order. Whatever it is, whatever the issue is, it just keeps snapping back. This, I understand, was particularly painful - talking about shrinking this government and doing ... less with more, |
We wanted to keep the 911 as is, |
We were in error. Sen. Murray was right. |