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A lot of negative reviews for president obamas budget on day one. what would you make of this? >> in contrast to the republican c.r., the continuing resolution which guts programs like education, take policemen off the street, daniel our economy, the presidents budget at least invests in things like education and infrastructure, transportation that we know to be critical. but you framed it exactly right. neither party yet is talking honestly about the fact that were playing basketball on a very ...

Question. >>. >> reporter: that is one thing we should mention. the democrats failure last year to actually get a budget passed for the first time in the modern era since the late 70s is an amazing thing. because its now making us in the press corps and us in the white house go off a weird set of numbers. you can use three arbitrary numbers for any budget discussion. but my guess going forward is you probably will see some sort of agreement. just because if you dont, theres real chaos. there mos...

Washingtonise, the cr is a continuing resolution, a way to keep government going when you you dont have a government settled and we didnt settle the budget last year so this is carry over business from last year, funding vital government functions this year. so i want to work with everybody, democrats and republicans, to get that resolved. i think it is important to make sure that we dont try to make a series of symbolic cuts this year that could endanger the recovery. so thats point number one....

Have to look at entitlements as well and unfortunately, you are right. there is nothing in the presidents plan that does that. martha: when will that happen? when will that happen? >> from this administration looks like never. because, you are right again, his own commission, he kicked the can down the road by setting up the commission, fine, and lets take the proposals and deal with them. im more than happy to start looking at that and the budget committee as we roll out this week, will be look...

Our lives and off our telephone lines and we dont want the patriot act? >> i think he mischaracterizes what happened. the tea party folks didnt switch sides, they are on the same side all the time, the side of the constitution and expect folks who go to congress and share our values vote in favor of upholding the constitution and voted their conscious in favor -- their conscience in favor of that and, its not a republican or democratic ideal. martha: it is expected to go through today. what happ...

Well see. i think that will be the big battleground territory over the next couple of years. >> right. kechb we had senator rand paul on yesterday who gave us black and white ideas, put on paper as to what could be cut, what should be cut to try and get the deficit under control. will your colleagues join forces and put legitimate ideas on the table as to what needs to go? >> i believe so. a good friend of mine, paul ryan, put out a road map beforehand. we have found at this very first step, peo...

Short run. and im just wondering, i hear this comprehensive plan and i know that the debt ceiling will be voted on in a month. and im just warning everybody right now, dont be shocked when the vote comes up and it goes down in the house of representatives. dont be shocked when every one of those freshmen dont vote for the debt ceiling. im just saying dont be shocked. its probably going to happen. and theyre not going to back down like republicans did on t.a.r.p. what are the chances that we can ...

These guys are on a very short probationary leash if they dont do what they promised, they are going to find themselves voted out of office in 2012. so thats from mark meckler of the tea party patriots speaking out today. and were pleased to be joined by kevin mccarthy, house majority whip. congressman, good morning to you, good to have you here today. >> good morning, thank you for having me. martha: break this down for us if you will. basically in the c.r., which is going to basically keep the...

Congress member on the appropriations committee will offer an amendment that goes through that cuts different departments. because you can only deal with whats in the c.r. when it comes to the bill itself with the floor, so you will find there are ways that were going in after the health care bill, but also, remember, weve already had the vote to repeal health care on the floor, which was a bipartisan vote as well. this is not something that were going slow on. this is something that were beginn...

Nasa. you know, what we do and what our nation gets from that is very, very high on her list of things she really treasures about this country. i have every intention that shell be there for the launch. i have already talked to her doctors about it. so there should be -- there really shouldnt be any reason why she cant go to the launch. we do have e-mail on orbit so i can stay up to date with e-mail. we do have whats called an ip phone on board. my experience as a space stutle cr -- shuttle crew...