As they see it.

• Position: Brent Hill, Kevin Kelly, and Mike Enzi - Brief article

"It's a long ways from where we were five years ago, but at least it shows we're headed in the right direction."

--Idaho Senate President Pro-Tem Brent Hill, in the Spokesman-Review about the state of the state's budget.

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"People want jobs, and they want them today. They don't want any more partisan division."

--Connecticut Senator Kevin Kelly, on the General Assembly's passage of a bipartisan jobs bill, in The Connecticut Mirror.

"We need to fix this so that the loophole doesn't exist anymore, and that will take care of those local governments without the federal government having to raise more taxes for them."

--Wyoming's U.S. Senator Mike Enzi to The Associated Press about the Marketplace Fairness Act before Congress.

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"These are pretty much the very shocking things we've been trying to avoid for the last three years. There are no choices left."

--Washington Senate Ways and...