It's not a 1 percent cut.

Investment advice is a very important component of good retirement policy, ... But it is vitally important that employees have a wide range of investment options, as well as full disclosure about the choices they have so they can make good investment decisions. This bill fails to provide workers enough choice or enough information.

We should be looking at this from a surgical point of view. A lot of people who think they would like to repeal the estate tax should put it in the context of fiscal policy. We'll have a huge hole in the federal treasury.

We are concerned whose side you are on.

Clearly, as far as Maryland politics are concerned, the gubernatorial election is a competitive election, ... All of us are looking at that and seeing what our strongest candidate would be.