So we are now where we are in December, and we need Congress -- Republican leaders in Congress -- to be serious about what the parameters of a deal look like.
But what I'm most concerned about is having a serious discussion about what we need to do to keep the country growing and restore security for hardworking Americans.
They are asking serious questions about what is going to happen.
In short, the Muslim Brotherhood is deadly serious about waging what it calls "civilization jihad" against the United States and other freedom-loving nations in order to secure their submission to the Islamic totalitarian political-military-legal doctrine called shariah.
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"There are a serious questions about what we can do to defend ourselves and how far we can go in what we call active defense, that are both legal and policy questions that have yet to be resolved, " said Mr. Chertoff in January.
This Vanity Fair piece in which he describes his waterboarding experience is, in my mind, a standout contribution that encourages a serious moral conversation about what is being done in the name of Americans everywhere.
The unwillingness of the Administration to provide any of the requested materials -- until yesterday (at which point a few classified and unclassified documents were made available to the Committee) -- raises serious questions about both what has been withheld and the integrity of those who attribute the delay to Halperin's opponents.
For years, voters questioned whether the Lib Dems were serious about governing, and wondered what they stood for.
They have now pulled out, but as Bowen finds there are serious questions to be asked about what they did while they were there.
And what about that serious new set we mentioned?
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If the breach is serious enough, you have to worry about what the FTC is going to do.
Indeed, Ronald Reagan's Iran-Contra scandal and Bill Clinton's impeachment over the Monica Lewinsky affair were far more serious than what we know so far about Obama's involvement in Benghazi, the Internal Revenue Service or subpoenas of records of reporters' calls.
So just to pick up on one point of perhaps disagreement, I would say that the thing that we need to be focused on, and I hope we will spend some serious time talking about it tonight is, what are the dynamics at work in this world?
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Cause what I want to talk to you about today is what John McCain once called the most serious crisis we have faced since the end of the Cold War.
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It's about serious long-term thinking: analysing what's gone wrong with our criminal justice system, and developing serious plans to put it right.
What better time to get serious about saving for retirement or investing for the distant future than right after asset prices have been beaten down?
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Instead he's thinking about what he calls a more 'serious' profession like teaching.
Now the Security Council will have a role in deciding what should be done about any serious Iraqi violations reported by the weapons inspectors.
Some of these reactions were expected but others raise serious concerns about the direction Latin America is taking in what is called "the battle of ideas".
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The council is supposed to have a role in deciding what should be done about any serious Iraqi violations, although America continues to reserve the right to use force without the UN's approval.
This is a serious and well-considered book, which makes suggestions about what has gone wrong and how such mistakes can be avoided by future international missions.
What they said was that they were serious about negotiating.
Maybe there can be a serious conversation about how a school should measure athletic success, what values truly matter, what it will and won't do to win, what alumni really want when they say they want to be proud.
The true test is whether the Iraqi government will demonstrate that it is serious about protecting the human rights of all Iraqis, and what role our own State Department can play in helping to protect this minority in Iraq.
And so the question is, at what point can we have a serious conversation about Medicare and its long-term liability, or a serious question about -- a serious conversation about Social Security, or a serious conversation about budget and debt in which we're not simply trying to position ourselves politically.
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What is more, if Congress is serious about procurement reform in the Pentagon, about reducing the unacceptably long lead-times from program inception to deployment, and about minimizing the costs of defense systems, it will find no better model than the approach used to bring on line successive generations of submarine-launched ballistic missiles.
What did happen is scary and a serious warning about the dangers of the online world.
Doing anything to disrupt that could mean serious trouble for the company, but what Peipler is talking about still belongs in the partnership world.
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If he was serious about his proposal he would have thought long and hard about what the Department of Energy does, whether any of its functions had to be replicated elsewhere, what the implications would be for the oil and gas industry.
For too long, parents have been forced to worry about what they would do if their child developed a serious medical condition.
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