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Regular order. and the problem with the fiscal side today if you dont have your budget done by the 15th of march and reconcile with the senate by the 15th of april and then try to come together and take the month of june and july and do the appropriation process. and then in september, fine tune it. and by the first of october you have your budget done. you dont want to jam it up to the end. because you jam it up to the end, you get in the box and you dont know where the hole to get out of is. l...

Have the budget done by the 15th of march and reconcile with the senate by the 15th of april and then try to come together and take the months of may and june and july to do the appropriation process and then, you know, in september fine tune it and by the first of october, you have the budget done. you dont want to jam it up to the end because you jam it up to the end, you get in a box and you dont know where the hole to get out of is. let me tell you a quick story. i was 200 -- well 1999 my fi...

We havent passed an appropriation bill in two years. >> they did pass a budget in march. >> finally a budget. but a budget is only supposed to direct the appropriation process where you actually go through that difficult work of prioritizing spending. we havent done that in two years which is why were now at this moment, past the deadline of september 30th when the fiscal year runs out trying to fund the government again in an incredibly inefficient way utilizing these continuing resolutions. it...

Pending before the house, only about $4 billion, even is expected to be spent this year. so, more than 90% of that isnt expected to be spent until next year at the earliest. that part needs to go into the normal appropriation process, where it-follow the normal scrutiny its supposed to be given to spending bills. >> neil: the argument has always been, congressman, ya, ya, ya, we know this this way things happen in washington, they add on and throw in goodies. but get the money to us. what do you...

>> that is ridiculous to see it happening. we to reel in the purse strings because theyre out of control. some of the administrators are out of control. were trying to do that in the house. >> eric: what do we do here? they go to vegas and spend money on sushi and clowns. this is a picture of jeffrey neely with a couple of glasses on wine. that is on our dime, right? >> its on your dime. but the biggest thing is we do it with overlap when we cut out national defense and men and women in uniform ...

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Into the next fiscal year, but the moneys cut, its on paper, its been filed, the whole country can look at the cuts. >>he cbo says this year, the actual amount that will be will be $352 million. the rest will be spread out, not just next year, but for many years. some of those cuts for ten years. >> but the most important thing is that it lowers the base of domestic discretionary spending and any future money that we provide through the appropriation process has to be based on the lower floor th...

Done, other than the appropriation process. >> referring to the senate nominee for a. see court nominee? >> kraebt. >> ycorrect. >> thats the last seas fight? >> that along with basically whatever appropriation bills they want to try and get passed. they have to get something passed or basically face consequence theres. >> in fairness to lindsey graham, paul, there was a deal worked out between kerry, lieberman and graham, the next major piece of legislation would be this energy legislation, thi...

Money from? >> what we need to do is -- this is an issue that needs to go through the regular appropriation process and not just have the president grabbing a bag of money that wasnt meant for it, to use for something else. somebody is going to use that money for highways if we start doing that. what i would do -- first of all, the president has a good program through his issue of not having capital gains for small business that invest money for at least five years. thats going to get broad bipa...

Im sure hes frustrated by that but at the end of the day we need a solid answer. >> i want to ask you about another looming threat about the government shut down. it sounds as though yall could be headed for a possible government shut down on or about the time of the presidents 100th day in office, about april 28th, over military spending. how are you going to avoid that? >> well, were working through that over the next three weeks. weve got three weeks and we will bring these bills to the floor...