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Virginia businessman and NASCAR great Hermie Sadler slammed Virginia legislative leaders who are “working to harm small businesses and disregard their constitutional rights” by inserting language at the eleventh hour

Decades? >> could you repeat that? >> why hasnt the cdc studied this in decades? whats stopped them? >> yes. 20 some years ago, cdc was funding research into this area. we had a program funded by cdc at the time. led by congressman named jay dickey. congress took from cdc the money that it was using to fund work on firearm violence, gave the money back to cdc, earmarked for another purpose, and inserted into cdcs budget language, and it is now part of the budget language for all of the departmen...

Deeply ideological some of these players are in this game. >> and of course, it has that republican trademark in it, which is the dramatic cut in taxes and taking the top tax rate down to 25% so that you then, you know, got to do all these spending cuts, cutting medicare. you know, so when youre out there on the campaign trail, why are you cutting medicare like this? well, its because those rich people cant be paying more than 25% in taxes. >> right. and by the way, just to be clear, all the spe...

Youve ever seen in any budget which really says -- im paraphrasing, but im taking budget language and itelling yo what it says. assume we can close enough budget loopholes, and we will not name one, to pay for $5 trillion tax cut. this isnt even serious budgeting if you wanted to pretend for a moment thats where theyre going for this. when i said this is an ideological document when hes talking about his vision, theres really no "there" there. >> thank you for joining me tonight. coming up, the ...

Reconciliation. your version of the bill. >> no one has talked about reconciliation but thats what you folks have talked about ever since that came out. as if it is something that has never been done before. >> in fact, it has been done before by republican and democratic presidents alike but never for the creation of a policy as huge as health care reform, one sixth of the nations economy. in fact, reid has been talking about it himself for months as a possible option in order to push this thro...