McCONNELL: These last-minute deals are no way to run the government. These three issues are coming up: the sequester, the debt ceiling, and the continuing resolution to operate the government. Look, the biggest problem confronting the country is not taxes. It's spending. We don't have this problem because we tax too little; we have it because we spend too much.
Q: The president has said he's willing to engage in more discussions over the sequester and the government shutdown, but that would also include new revenues.
McCONNELL: The tax issue is finished, over, completed. Now the question is, what are we going to do about the biggest problem confronting our country and our future? And that's our spending addiction. It's time to confront it.
Q: You will not accept any new revenues in any new deal?
McCONNELL: Yeah, absolutely. The tax issue is behind us.
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