"All Obama has done for the last four years is clamor for higher taxes to spend more money," the president of Americans for Tax Reform told CNBC. "The only time we've beat him back on spending at all was during the debt-ceiling crisis." Norquist said Obama was "willing to save $1 trillion by not occupying Iraq for the next decade. He wanted to c

The President tells the press that leaders in Congress may be able to reach an agreement that can pass both houses in time. Economists, business leaders all think that we’re poised to grow in 2013 –- as long as politics in Washington don’t get in the way of America’s progress. So we’ve got to get this done. I just want t

Ezra Klein lists some of the benefits that will come into effect under Obamacare this year.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) says he will only vote to raise the debt ceiling if a Balanced Budget Amendment is attached to it.

REP. JAN SCHAKOWSKY (D-IL): "The Republicans, the disdain that I have seen for poor people, for people who are struggling, like senior citizens on Medicare and Social Security, for low income people and the Women Infant Children (WIC) program. We saw the Republicans, last week, vote [for] spending cuts that would literally take food out of the mout

Charles Krauthammer, A.B. Stoddard and Steve Hayes discuss State Department officials getting off easy in the Benghazi scandal.

E.J. Dionne, columnist for the Washington Post, talks with Ezra Klein about the lazy tendency to characterize "both sides" of the budget negotiations as being equally at fault for their failure when, in fact, President Obama has made exceptional concessions and John Boehner has been unable to deliver on even the small gestures he's made.

Donald Trump says the GOP holds the "nuclear weapon" in fiscal cliff negotiations and implores the party to use the debt ceiling in the talks.