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The spending cap. one of the things that worries me the most, i dont know the exact details of the budget deal, ive been looking for this. but are they going to blow away the caps and not have any spending caps that would be a big mistake. >> chuck schumer that its going to ash heap of history, so, yeah, thats gone. >> i think thats terrible. actually,dy a budget analysis on this. the budget control act was a great success in terms of controlling spending in 2013, 14, 15, 16. and whats happened ...

about. when they look at exactly what may have caused whitney houstons death, the autopsy is complete. the results are on hold. theyre waiting for toxicology reports which they say could take up to eight weeks or longer. whitney houston was found in a bathtub at the beverly hilton hotel on saturday late afternoon. there were some reports that maybe she drowned an there are some sources who said it could have been a combination of drugs and alcohol. radar online is saying that police fo...

In your first term around cigarette tax? >> when i became governor, spending actually increased 2% in my first term. revenue increased 42% my first term. without raising anybodys taxes we did it because we had more taxpayers with more taxable income. thats how you get your revenue up. we did that without raising anybodys taxes. revenue increased 50% faster than spending increase. spending went up 2, revenue went up 42. 50% difference. without raising taxes. i did my second term, raised the cigar...

Controlling spending. we raised it because our cigarette tax was too low. we were very out of line with the rest of the south. we raised it to 60 cents, which is the average of all the southern states. we did it for health reasons, not budget reasons. >> chris: okay. i want to go back to this question of a lobbyist. clearly, if you do run are, something you are going to have to deal with and you say well, any president is a lobbyist. it has a kind of bad connotation. its kind of a dirty word for...