Page 49 - Appropriations Process News Today

2012 appropriations process. there are many to go, tea party and freshmen republicans want to resolve it now. if boehner and reid cant, this will lead to a shutdown or another continuing resolution. >> david, one quick way to transition to libya is, how much does the fact that this budget fight isnt dominating the front pages, its, i think i have to go to sometimes the national section in order to see it. i actually do thumb through the newspaper before, not on an ipad. who does that benefit? >>...

Brianna keilar in washington. the house cut a lot. can you give us some of the specifics? >> reporter: yeah, as you said, $60 billion. now, that is for the remaining seven months in the current budget. and just to tell you a few of the many changes that were made to this bill -- because this is why weve been up late nights for a few days now is the house really has gone into a marathon session over this. so one of the big ones -- this was the most controversial -- was a change to defund health c...

Current health care reform law as it stands right now. of course, carol, the bottom line here is, theres a democratic-controlled senate. president obama is still in the white house. so even though the house is expected to be able to pass this repeal bill, its not really expected to go anywhere. >> so i guess the question that comes to mind, why are they wasting everybodys time? weve discussed health care. weve discussed it for months and months and months. republicans know the direction in which...

Senate. democrats maintain control of the senate. they would need 13 -- repibbs would need 13 democrats to go along with that to make it. is this for show? republicans argue this is something they promised to do during the campaign and theyre going to do it. ultimately, the long-term strategy is, they eerl going r take away this law bit-by-bit, death by 1,000 cuts to choke funding for implementation for the health care law. thats the plan down the road for the appropriations process. but in term...

And apart from this healthcare mess? >> reporter: sure. in the appropriations process -- what they are trying to do in the process of finalizing the legislation tbhb thfinalizizingt stupak abortion debate. initially what the pro life democrats were arguing we need a permanent ban. they wanted language in the statute. the executive order the president is going to sign many critics say has no force of law, cant overturn the statute because you dont have a permanent ban in the language of the law. ...

Government shutdown again. >> lets say it gets down today, alisyn. we will all celebrate they did it the day before they absolutely had to. it speaks to sort of how we govern from crisis to crisis and how even 24 hours before the absolute shutoff the lights date counts as a victory. what you see in those numbers is an attempt to bring enough conservative republicans on board with the defense spending to keep the government open. remember, this is not a way that government should fundamentally wo...

Hes off to a great start. i love your bumper from last segment where he said, if youre a state thats gonna hold things up for environmental reasons, well take our money back. it shouldnt take 15 years. its probably shocking to a lot of your viewers that he wants to get it down to two. it should be quicker than that. >> dana: it is shocking to some people that they dont realize it could take ten years to get an approval. that would be an amazing achievement if you can stream line those approvals....

Whether or not we want to authorize this operation in the appropriations process. >> does that mean [ inaudible ] -- >> so theres going to be a debate to come out of this because some people are going to say, wait a minute. you candescignate anybody you want to designate. the congress is not set up to be military commanders. 535 members of congress dont sit down and designate what threats the nation faces. these groups morph weekly. they pledge allegiance to isil and other groups by the day. so ...

Mess around with the appropriations process, even though they may not vote on every final bill, theyre going to have a motion to include an amendment and that amendment is going to be we need money to take down the confederate statue s. i dont know the answer to this in terms of taking down all of these statues. i dont know you want to wipe away americas history. you want a reminder of who this country was and is today so this country never goes back to such a horrific moment in time. having sai...

Appropriations process, but he would make sure that that promise would be kept as far as the payment of it. >> real quick follow-up. if border crossings are down and thats a talking point, is the wall even necessary? >> absolutely. the wall does several things. >> saying were going to have the drugs flowing in. >> just because you have a couple good months, you want to make sure you take long-term steps. so the president is going to fulfill and frankly its a promise he made to the american peopl...