Let’s Start Now on Debt Solution, Avoid an 11th Hour Deal
January 28, 2013
'We need to give this issue everything we’ve got, and we need to start now. We need to devote the same kind of energy to this issue that we’ve devoted to other great national threats in the past. That means serious bipartisan negotiation, careful committee consideration, and, yes, tough decisions and the kinds of votes that reflect them. This work will take time, and that’s why I’ve been urging Senate Democrats to set the legislative gears into motion right away.’