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Brought in as tea party candidates5%pó who are going alg with the compromise? what do you think is going to happen to them in their districts? >> i think it is a shame theres already some tea party candidates, some freshmen in there who believe that status quo is the only way to operate in d.c.. they gotta remember, we worked so hard to hire them to do what is right for the american electorate. they need to stand strong and just use that common sense and fiscal conservative issues need to be pl...

Brought in as tea party candidates5%pó who are going alg with the compromise? what do you think is going to happen to them in their districts? >> i think it is a shame theres already some tea party candidates, some freshmen in there who believe that status quo is the only way to operate in d.c.. they gotta remember, we worked so hard to hire them to do what is right for the american electorate. they need to stand strong and just use that common sense and fiscal conservative issues need to be pl...

Do that. >> gregg: jason, republicans have been actually back pedaling on their promise from the very beginning. paul ryan said at one point, well, the fiscal year is nearly half over, so republicans would pro rate the cuts to cover only the seven months from march to september. my goodness, i mean, jason, they knew that the fiscal year was half over when they made the pledge. isnt that just an excuse and isnt that the kind of political deception that americans are just sick and tired of? >> i d...

$100 billion in the first year alone. now, jason, their spending plan did not cut $100 billion from federal programs, so was that just an empty campaign promise, to put it in impoe late terms, a -- impolite terms, a lie? >> i would say the first proposal did come up short from what the campaign rhetoric promised, but one of the great things about this new freshmen class is 87 republicans is that thats -- they ran on a platform of reform and cutting spending and they held the leaderships feet to ...

And so i dont buy the notion the premise beneath that, that spending should or can go up, 27%. >> chris: but what does it say about -- that you were, went all out to cut spending and issued the vetoes and the deficit -- i mean, you can talk about projections, but, certainly has not gone down and may go up. >> what it does say is in minnesota and men other states you have to have a budgeting process that doesnt have spending on auto pilot. so that is why we have the deficit in our state and there...

Issue. he is well known to voters in washington state and in fact, he may be well known to our viewers because we covered the race extensively for governor when he lost by 129 votes after the third count. well, this time hes running in a nonpresidential year and he thinks that will help him. we expect him to make an issue out of earmarks. murray sponsored, get this 190 earmarks last year totalling $219 million. >> we cant continue to do this. its worth doing. its worth doing in the normal budget...

Now it is clear. it is all clear. congressman, were you supporting what the senator was trying to do initially before i guess you can say he caved and whatnot. >> i think we all support the concept of limited government and fiscal integrity within the budgeting process. the mistake he made is he tried to use them in a political chess match with the democratic majority. that is something you should never do to people, especially as i know from my hard hit state of michigan with 15% unemployment. ...

Pointing out a fact that this was a 22, 2,300 page bill. but he earlier supported this, did he not? this came out wednesday night at 8:00 p.m. only to have the tweet from the president this morning threatening to veto it. >> well, he probably in hindsight, that wasnt maybe the best choice. but look, if you dont want to be late, you better start out on time. for this administration and for this congress, the reason that their budgeting process stinks is because they didnt start it the right way. ...

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