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Him an easy offer by doing earmarks and well take some of obamas cuts. this was an easy offer. it gets harder from here, but i think this thing doesnt really happen until the debt ceiling in may. i think there will be a couple of more temporary extensions and theyll find ways to do it it, but the rubber meets the road when the debt ceiling comes up. >> tom, who do you think has the bigger challenge right now? is it senator reid holding moderate democrats or is it speaker boehner keeping the fres...

Attire said she made it publicly known she wanted to party. he said the womans attacker had the mistaken belief that, quote, sex, was in the air. congress sold could soon have a deal to avoid a government shutdown, at least for another two weeks. lawmakers may pass a fifth short-term funding bill to keep washington running. the last short-term bill they passed expires on friday. congress keeps pushing these extensions through because it never passed a budget for the current fiscal year. a di...

Extensions through because it never passed a budget for the current fiscal year. a different budget battle is raging in wisconsin this weekend. its snowy and its cold but thats not stopping thousands of protesters from rallying at the capitol. yesterday the statehouse passed the governors bill which would strip state workers from most of their collective bargaining rights. the bill still has to clear the state senate but democrats have fled to illinois to prevent a vote. for children with au...

Americans to depart immediately. those who cant book flights are leaving by ship. france, britain and turkey were among those who had hundreds of citizens getting out today. china has a very large population in libya. so far it has evacuated 12,000 chinese nationals from libya. the unrest in libya is helping to cause unhappiness for many of us at the pump. gas is up an average of 17 cents a gallon just in the past week. analysts say the turmoil throughout the middle east is causing crude oil a...

On wisconsin salaries. that wasnt part of the deal. now he dropped hints in december. you have to go back, before they turned over power to republicans, they tried to ram through contracts that included basically extensions of benefits, benefits they enjoy in wisconsin. at the time, he made it clear that he wanted to consider the contracts in light of the 2011 to 2013 budget and the problem in wisconsin for finances then. it was thought at the time by insiders that he was holding back kind of li...

Republicans, they tried to ram through contracts that included basically extensions of benefits, benefits they enjoy in wisconsin. at the time, he made it clear that he wanted to consider the contracts in light of the 2011 to 2013 budget and the problem in wisconsin for finances then. it was thought at the time by insiders that he was holding back kind of like an ace in the hole, if they wouldnt agree to concessions on public employee benefits, they would go after them on collective bargaining r...

He never ran an ad about im going to end collective bargaining, almost every issue on wisconsin salaries. that wasnt part of the deal. now he dropped hints in december. you have to go back, before they turned over power to republicans, they tried to ram through contracts that included basically extensions of benefits, benefits they enjoy in wisconsin. at the time, he made it clear that he wanted to consider the contracts in light of the 2011 to 2013 budget and the problem in wisconsin for financ...

>> democrats have based a $40 billion cuts on president obamas larger budget but since congress never passed the budget they say the democrats overstate the signs of their cuts, as well. >> if you want to make your cuts look big, do them relative to the president. >> congress has taken a week off in observance of presidents day. the current bill expires march 4th but there is little sense of urgency about the prospect of a government shutdown. >> were not looking for a government shutdown and ne...

Spending. were not looking for a government shutdown and well have negotiations with spending cuts in the interim is my guess. >> short-term extensions and speaker boehner said he would not support any extension unless it has some cuts in there. theres a way of sort of punting for another couple of weeks. >> if we peel the political rhetoric away from this, what this is really about is cutting spending. both democrats and republicans want to cut spending. republicans want to cut maybe this much....

>> democrats have based a $40 billion cuts on president obamas larger budget but since congress never passed the budget they say the democrats overstate the signs of their cuts, as well. >> if you want to make your cuts look big, do them relative to the president. >> congress has taken a week off in observance of presidents day. the current bill expires march 4th but there is little sense of urgency about the prospect of a government shutdown. >> were not looking for a government shutdown and ne...