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Big ticket items that mean a lot. democrats and the president just wont go near it the president came up to the hill today and met behind closed doors with republicans for the first time in no one can remember when. and they said it was a productive meeting, et cetera. the democrats look at the republican budget from paul ryan and they say its draconian and its not going to work and that the math is phony and everything else. republicans by contrast have to have a point. democratic proposal to i...

Big ticket items that mean a lot. democrats and the president just wont go near it the president came up to the hill today and met behind closed doors with republicans for the first time in no one can remember when. and they said it was a productive meeting, et cetera. the democrats look at the republican budget from paul ryan and they say its draconian and its not going to work and that the math is phony and everything else. republicans by contrast have to have a point. democratic proposal to i...

By $975 billion. including billions from defense and health care. in all democrats claim the plan would save the country $4.2 trillion over the next decade. yesterday, house republicans released their blueprint which they say would balance the budget by 2023 by making major cuts to spending and overhauling programs like medicaid and medicare. but to president obama, balancing the budget alone not his top priority. >> paul ryan is challenging you to come forward with a budget that also reaches ba...

Elections do have cobs sequences. >> while repealing obama care fires up conservatives, so does a balanced budget. paul ryan says he thinks he can do it by 2023. shep? >> shepard: i mentioned two plans. the other one comes from the democrats who are blasting congressman ryans plan while showing their own, right? >> thats right. three years in a row, they do not like the paul ryan budget plan, senator patty murray is due to unveil her blueprint tomorrow. she would cut spending by $975 billion. sh...

People count on you are saying president perry i am sorry you will have to do without. >> let me share with you one place you can go tom kober has a be piece of work called back in black. i believe its $9 trillion worth of reductions. i hope folks will take a look at that. let me give you one example. you can take the department of education and you can put the elementary and secondary programs together and cut those in half and send half of that back to the state save 25 trillion right there. >...

Average vote 37 amendments we have done twice as many. doing this has been herculean feat. >> harris: next the senate must reconcile the budget with a plan passed by republicans. now, context showing how differently the plans would deal with the economy. the senate plan calls for $46.5 trillion in spending, nearly $5 trillion more than the house plan and more revenue an additional $1 billion more than the house plan. the biggest difference would be the impact on the nations ballooning deficit. t...