This is a national emergency. This is a national crisis, and we cannot worry about what the budgetary costs are. We have to get this done,

If this crisis hits them to the degree it's expected to, we've lost Asia.

It's Orwellian. The pharmaceutical lobby writes the bill, passes it, and then they run ads thanking them for passing it.

People are looking to Congress for leadership and constructive action. Instead, the Republicans in Congress have served up inaction in a fast and furious blame game,

I'm getting pessimistic. I'm getting worried. We have about a week left -- at the most two weeks -- and we aren't to first base,

He is, and further than that, if he were subject to blackmail, it would have been before a lot of this stuff was publicly known,