I Would Do Away With Super Pacs.

Reducing Our Dependence On Foreign Energy - That Is Critically Important To America's Economic Future. Excellence In Education - If We're Not The Best Educated, We're Not Going To Be The Most Powerful For Very Long.

The Reality Is No One Knows How Much It Will Cost Us To Wage War With Iraq.

When Republicans Used Reconciliation In 2001 For The Bush Tax Cuts, They Used It To Increase The Deficit. The Whole Purpose Of Reconciliation Is For Deficit Reduction!

We've Got To Have Major Health Care Reform Because That Is The 800-pound Gorilla. That Is The Thing That Can Swamp The Boat Fiscally For The United States.

The Only Possible Role That I Can See For Reconciliation Would Be To Make Modest Changes In The Major Package To Improve Affordability, To Deal With What Share Of Medicaid Expansion The Federal Government Pays, Those Kinds Of Issues, Which Is The Traditional Role For Reconciliation In Health Care.