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Which -- lets put aside the budget itself for a second. the appropriations process has broken down, too, and were just doing things by cr, continuing resolution. so basically youve given power to a few very powerful congressmen, and all the other members are sitting there waiting to be told what to wait for. >> mark halperin, it is frustrating. and this has been going on for some time, and its really dangerous for a democracy when you have two bodies -- and actually, one run by a democrat, the o...

Try to bone up vice president biden on economic matters and go toe to toe with paul ryan about jobs, the economy, the budget, the appropriations process. good luck to that staffer. good luck there. >> juan: but the romney campaign is not hearing anything about possibly hillary clinton jumping on this ticket because, in fact, president obama has until september 6 at the convention to make the big change. and it would have impact. there is no question that would be a game changer in this race. >> ...

Try to bone up vice president biden on economic matters and go toe to toe with paul ryan about jobs, the economy, the budget, the appropriations process. good luck to that staffer. good luck there. >> juan: but the romney campaign is not hearing anything about possibly hillary clinton jumping on this ticket because, in fact, president obama has until september 6 at the convention to make the big change. and it would have impact. there is no question that would be a game changer in this race. >> ...

Try to bone up vice president biden on economic matters and go toe to toe with paul ryan about jobs, the economy, the budget, the appropriations process. good luck to that staffer. good luck there. >> juan: but the romney campaign is not hearing anything about possibly hillary clinton jumping on this ticket because, in fact, president obama has until september 6 at the convention to make the big change. and it would have impact. there is no question that would be a game changer in this race. >> ...

This is one of the laziest congresss in history. we only worked seven days in may. were barely working more than that in june. no highway bill. other essential pieces of legislation are not being passed. so its time to take action. >> mr. ribble, obviously this is a bipartisan measure. do you think you could see bipartisan ideas in a large-scale budget? obviously democrats like to see a revenue increase. >> well, yeah. i think it can be done. i mean, the house has spoken. weve -- i was in congre...

Condition. 40 cents of every dollar is borrowed. way demographics are shaping up, is not going to get better without us taking action. so when you have a prominent part. ninth circuit court of appeals going off on these expensive trips, it indicates they are not in touch with the danger our country faces. >> greta: can the senate judiciary committee do anything in just tell them stop it. dont spend the money. dont go to these hawaii spas. if you have business do it in a courtroom someplace. >> i...

Three times more per year if these hassles could be addressed and security could be maintained. most of these are business travelers. get these business travelers out there on the road you have $86 billion in new spending. 900,000 jobs. and every corner of this country. air travel is the gateway to commerce. lets get people back out there. lets get them out there doing these business deals off to those meetings, seeing grandma in the process. this is going to put people back to work. >> neil: th...

Phone with us right now. what is going on? what are you afraid of. >> one thing that we want to i can that sure in the first of the nation caucus state is we report our results to the nation on january 3rd, that they are done timely and done accurately. and given the call-to-arms that the occupy movement has issued nationwide to encourage their supporters to come to iowa to disrupt the process, we want to make sure that were preparing for every eventuality in iowa. >> neil: what would they do to...

Mitt romney chief among them. he kidded himself with the letterman appearance where he tried to make fun of the fact that he appears so stiff and wooden. there is a limit to that right? >> if you remember al gore tried the same thing running in 2000. making jokes about himself and being stiff and rigid it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. and reinforces how people view you. he struggling trying to figure out do i take my tie off. look more relaxed. i do change my garb? talk more differently? h...

Comparison you are right its a lot of money but by comparison nickel and dimes. >> the bush tax cuts average $150 billion per year. the argument moving forward is should you be increasing taxes certainly with an incredibly weak economy i dont think we should. i dont want to increase taxes. the number one component of the solution, neil, is economic growth. you dont want to do anything to harm that at the same time, you have to take a look at the fiscal condition of our overall government as well...