The reality is no one knows how much it will cost us to wage war with Iraq.

Anybody who has stood on the prairie in North Dakota has felt the force of the wind and knows that our state has an inexhaustible supply of wind power. The potential here to create jobs and draw millions of dollars in new investment to North Dakota is enormous.

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.

So I put that all together and I find it makes it hard to justify a filibuster.

The reality is no one knows how much it will cost us to wage war with Iraq.

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