As they see it.

• Position: Vicki Berger, Peter Welch, and Kent Lambert - Brief article

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"We've been blessedly boring all session."

--Oregon Representative Vicki Berger, at the end of the session, to the Oregonian.

"When a consumer can walk into a store, try out a product and then go home and buy it online without paying the sales tax, Main Street businesses and downtowns lose."

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--U.S. Representative Peter Welch, Vermont, on his support of the Main Street Fairness Act in Congress, in the Richmond Times Dispatch.

"We were just looking at virtually every option and trying to decide what was absolutely urgent now. think 99 percent of it was completely economic."

--Colorado Senator Kent Lambert, to the Associated Press, about the state's decision to save $186,500 a year by no longer covering circumcisions under Medicaid.

"Government isn't shoving this bad food down our throats. It's a lack of self-discipline many times, and even if we, say, limited a hamburger to being no more than 200 calories, it doesn't mean i won't choose to eat four of them."

--Alabama Representative Ken Johnson, to the New...