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!

Reconciliation cannot be used to pass comprehensive health care reform. It won't work because it was never designed for that kind of significant legislation; it was designed for deficit reduction.

I would do away with super PACs. I think it's a cancer.

Governments can inflate their way out of debt, but that has consequences, doesn't it?

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.

We shouldn't just live for today; we should prepare for tomorrow.

Certainly Social Security needs to be reformed.