I Mean, The Obama Position Has Been,

We Will Cut Programs, We Will Try To Rein In The Size Of The Bureaucracy. We Will Bring Federal Pay Scales That Have Become So Exaggerated Into Line With Market Rates.

I Am Hopeful For The American People That We Can Actually Improve The Outlook For Bringing Down Costs In Health Care.

A Good Place To Start Is With The Kids ... One Of The Great Founding Principles Of Our Country Was That Children Would Not Be Punished For The Mistakes Of Their Parents. It Is Time To Provide An Opportunity For Legal Residence And Citizenship For Those Who Were Brought To This Country As Children And Who Know No Other Home.

Again, The American People Expect Us To Do What They Are Doing. It's Tightening The Belt, It's Learning How To Do More With Less. That's A Reality Today, And We've Got To Do That In Order To Get The Private Sector Growing.

The Bill Then Says If The Senate Does Not Act, Then H.r. 1 (the House-passed Bill That Cuts $61 Billion) Will Be The Law Of The Land. In Addition To That, It Says That If All Else Fails, And The Senate Brings About A Shutdown, Then Members Should Not Get Their Pay.