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Deal with the debt. it doesnt even deal with the deficit. it is simply the first part of the appropriations process. well send this up to the hill now and the appropriations committees of the house, the senate, of course the house controls the power of the purse. congress controls the power of the purse. this will be the first step in that process. we will start to address issues of longer term deficit, longer term debt in that larger budget. well have to deal at things like mandatory spending, ...

Over the last couple years when i was down the street, what we saw was the white house, often assisted by senate democrats, use the defense appropriations bill as a hostage. the defense appropriations bill was never allowed to get to the white house because the president wanted to leverage it. president obama wanted to le nondefense discretionary spending in other places. this president wants an appropriations bill on his desk. i hope to get back to the ordinary appropriations process. it sort o...

Over the last couple years when i was down the street, what we saw was the white house, often assisted by senate democrats, use the defense appropriations bill as a hostage. the defense appropriations bill was never allowed to get to the white house because the president wanted to leverage it. president obama wanted to leverage it to get nondefense discretionary spending in other places. this president wants an appropriations bill on his desk. i hope to get back to the ordinary appropriations pr...

What things do we think should be changed, what things are changed at the regulatory area, what things can be changed by him and what things do we need legislative approval for. and thats a big priority of what were working on. maria: for example, in the memo that jeb hensarling wrote recently, he said the consumer financial protection bureau, its been a controversial regulator, and he wants to eliminate its authority to supervise financial firms. is that something you would be on board with? >>...

Its not about money its about doing the job right. arthel: less overhead. lets talk about funding the wall. the cant price tag is somewhere between $12 to $15 billion. when george w. bush signed the secure fence act into law almost 10 years ago, the estimated cost was close to $5 billion. so what do you think about u.s. taxpayers footing the bill up front? are you confident mexico will reimburse the u.s. in and will those repayments come in a for that will be effective and make us whole? >> i se...

From going to the defense appreciations bill on multiple times, multiple occasions. im hopeful that with a different president in the white house they wont conclude that its to their advantage, to pre vent sovent some semblance of a appropriations process. we have a very heavy appropriations agenda as the speaker has laid out. we hope we can have some semblance of regular order even with all this and get at least some appreciations bills lou the senate so well have something closer to a regular ...

Those. thats why its going to take more than simply 100 days. the cost of the wall we anticipate as supplemental coming from the administration -- first of all we have to get the omb director in place, we will anticipate a supplemental, and well process the supplemental before the end of the current fiscal year expir expires. >> [ inaudible ]. >> on the appreciations process, obviously senate democrats last year with president obama in the white house believed it was to their advantage to not ha...

On the taxpayers for this possible $8 billion expense? >> congress will indeed be footing the bill going forward. i havent seen the details on the white house on it, havent seen the details. if it happens it, would be something that would go through the appropriations process. >> and you support that? >> i think we have to recognize democrat a republican plans overs past several years,he comprehensive plan put forward in the senate all focus on border security. so whoevers plan it has been over ...

>> only appropriations process. senate democrats last year with president obama in the white house believed it was to their advantage to not have an appropriations process. as you recall they prevented us from going to the defense bill for multiple occasions. i am hopeful with a different president they wont conclude it is to their advantage to prevent some semblance of a normal appropriations process. we do have a heavy, non-appropriations agendas the speaker has laid out. but we hope we can ha...

To take more than simply 100 days. the cost of the wall we and supplemental coming from the administration -- we have to get the director over in place and well and a supplemental like any administration when they come in, to give us -- give the supplemental to congress and well process it before the end of the current fiscal year expires. >> bringing up statutory deadlines obviously, health care reform, tax reform, a lot on your plate. last year without all of that stuff, you guys did not get i...