Yglesias Award Nominee

"This is about more than money, it's about whether the president and the Congress can competently govern … We now have Republicans who have put revenues on the table [and] Democrats on the supercommittee who have put entitlements on the table. Both need to put more on the table and get a result, and we're here to support them," – Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN), chairman of the Senate Republican Conference.