It's our intent to create some Republican votes for this. It is time for the majority in Congress to put its votes and its money where its mouth is.

Not once did we discuss that we'd have to fight the Social Security battle all over again.

The only thing more unpopular than private accounts was benefit cuts.

a cordial exchange for the most part.

He stuck his head out the door and asked who we were. It was quite funny. To his credit he didn't just ignore us or the passersby who eventually stopped to ask him questions.

Many of those people were barely surviving before Hurricane Katrina, and the reason they were barely surviving was because they had Medicaid and food stamps,