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Is that all that will happen with the reconciliation procedure. >> lookes like the democrats wil walk in lock step and, will vote everything down and i have an amendment that says the medicare savings in the bill, which are huge, about a trillion dollars in medicare cuts, in the bill, when it is fully implemented over ten years, savings should be used to make medicare strong and more solvent and medicare is in a serious situation and will go bankrupt in five years and if we save a trillion dolla...

Over the second ten years. house minority leader john boehner joins me live to discuss this. okay, so thank you so much for being here, mr. minority leader, those numbers are pretty shocking when it talks about the red ink were about to, as john stossel put it earlier, hoist off on our children. you know, the democrats say thats just not right, all along theyve told us this is going to be a cost-saving measure. how do you get to the huge decifit numbers? >> well, you know, the congressional budg...

By 100 million because of some oversight in the bill. some inuncontinued ed consequence. this will happen over and over again. process brought to light by new technology and energy the way its never been before. thats what made people mad going forward the results and failures will be brought to light in a new way thats never happened with entitlement program before. people will be very upset. kicking first. >> bill: get the bribe scenario we laid out in the talking points memo. they are north g...

By 100 million because of some oversight in the bill. some inuncontinued ed consequence. this will happen over and over again. process brought to light by new technology and energy the way its never been before. thats what made people mad going forward the results and failures will be brought to light in a new way thats never happened with entitlement program before. people will be very upset. kicking first. >> bill: get the bribe scenario we laid out in the talking points memo. they are north g...

By 100 million because of some oversight in the bill. some inuncontinued ed consequence. this will happen over and over again. process brought to light by new technology and energy the way its never been before. thats what made people mad going forward the results and failures will be brought to light in a new way thats never happened with entitlement program before. people will be very upset. kicking first. >> bill: get the bribe scenario we laid out in the talking points memo. they are north g...

The class act, this is the new long-term care insurance program and use it to pay for current benefits and the $500 billion they take out of medicare, theyre stealing from medicare to start a new entitlement program and if there are savings for medicare, why wouldnt we roll it back in to save medicare and to prolong the trust fund thats there to fund it? >> leader boehner, theres a question of the cost of inaction. ron brownson writes it about it in his "national journal" column. he writes "in a...

Long-term care insurance program and use it to pay for current benefits and the $500 billion they take out of medicare, theyre stealing from medicare to start a new entitlement program and if there are savings for medicare, why wouldnt we roll it back in to save medicare and to prolong the trust fund thats there to fund it? >> leader boehner, theres a question of the cost of inaction. ron brownson writes it about it in his "national journal" column. he writes "in all cbo has projected that the s...

Mirrors and double counting out. >> congress woman. >> no, what that is is what paul ryan act asking the congressional budget office to put a bunch of stuff in the bill that isnt in the bill. >> once we pass this bill everyone is see right away all the horror stories are not going to come true. >> i pledge of allegiance to the flag. >> today we will act on a uniquely american solution to health care reform. >> my colleagues are celebrating the birth of a great new entitlement program today only ...

Presidency on the issue over the course of the past year and we shouldnt forget there are 75 more democrats than republicans in the house of representatives. so for him to fail to get a majority tomorrow, would be a huge blow to him. but, it looks like they may squeak by. with, you know, 216 or a little more, democrats democratic support. but, it -- what is interesting me is not only do republicans, reject this bill, because it is a trillion dollar new entitlement program, that raises a half a t...

Tweak it still, its a trillion dollars they need to spend half a trillion in tax increases and another half a trillion in medicare cuts and not to extend the medicare program, but to fund the new entitlement program. the american people know were broke and the last thing we need to do is to add more debt on the backs of our kids and grandkids. >> let me say one thing about the fix-it bill. i know theyre trying to convince their members to vote for it based on a second sort of fix-it bill. if a f...