The enormous cost of this proposal will only hasten Medicare's insolvency, and we'll have to rely on future Congresses to have the political courage that this Congress lacks,

It's more than likely there will be leadership elections in January. We don't want to go into an election year without a permanent majority leader.

Our real leverage has come from the fear that DeLay will not have a post to come back to. They are deathly afraid of a leadership election in January.

The automation and what we're doing now will make future testing go that much more efficiently.

I can't predict what will happen in the future because it is in the club's control. But Bryan loves it there.

There's no shortage of places where the federal government can tighten its belt to pay the cost of the hurricane recovery effort. Let's face it, after years of uninterrupted growth, the federal government is bloated.