cuts from the baseline. we have a hugely inflated baseline because of the mega spending by the obama administration. secondly, cuts would improve efficiency and now we have a documentation of that. brett: it also gives perspective in this gao report that hundreds of millions of dollars, hundreds of billions of dollars, billions with a b . we re talking about $61 billion republicans want to cut from the continuing resolution. it gives you a perspective of what you are looking at here? i think it changes the whole dynamic of the debate over continuing resolutions that are going to happen this week and, of course, again in two weeks. we re not going to resolve the budget issue for fiscal year 2011 march 18th here here. i want to say republicans won the report before it appeared. they boxed the democrats in the
report. jenna, if you realize tonight if you eat a cheese pizza and it makes you sick that s the responsibility of the secretary of health and human services but if you ate a sausage and pepperoni pizza that makes you sick, that s the secretary of agriculture, when the egg is in the shell, that s the secretary of the department of agriculture, once you break it open and put it in food, that s a different cabinet secretary. it s crazy how we have this designed. you talk about biodefense, as our report said last january, there are more than two dozen presidentially appointed senate-confirmed individuals, those are heavyweights in this town, that have some responsibility for biodefense, not one has it for a full-time job and nobody is in charge. that is not a recipe for success jenna. jenna: we know this. how do we fix it in. that s what we re trying to do. senator graham and tallent, a good democrat and good republican, a bipartisan evident, we gave the government an f for being prepar
in doing this way. when he was county executive in milwaukee made some of the cuts and he was cuigd of gutting the parks and ruining milwaukee quality of lie. he understands, he has been through the fights before. that is why i don t expect them to go. brett: who wins? i think he wins. i think what happened today in kenosha could be the first sign of cracks among the democrats. i think winning the legislative fight doesn t mean he wins the battle and i don t know. the only thing i m sure of, there is not going to be compromise. i think the governor wins. brett: next up the gao report about waste and how it figures into talks about spending cuts. if those talks fail in the next two weeks and the government does shut down, who would get the most blame. vote on our poll, results after this break. where to go for a quiet g away.
redundant program. the government accountability office, a nonpartisan bunch pinpointing areas where washington could save taxpayers billions every year without even cutting services. carl cameron is live on capitol hill with a look. it sounds like a really good example of bad spending. reporter: it is, it s a good example of a terrible example. since you ve built up all the suspense. tom coburn of oklahoma says this report makes members of congress look like, quote, jack asses. a lot of times when we talk about spending we report and show several pound documents of how tax dollars are going to be utilized and spent. this little gem is what they say is duplicative, unnecessary, redundant, waste and in many cases abusive. republicans note that it s certainly not a first report of waste in the u.s. government. in factor i can cantor the republican house majority leader today said he remembers when
when you look at the investigation from two years ago, forget about the drug use and drinking they report, and a gao report last month, it makes it sound like mms, these watchdogs designed to regulate the industry, is concerned with the health of energy companies than they are about the environment. no question about it. mms is part of the interior department. we think of interior, national park services or yellow stone and yosemite or u.s. fish and wildlife trying to manage birds and game in this country. mms has to work closely with implementing the national environmental policy act of 1969. that happened after the santa barbara spill, and it was meant to enforce things like clean air and water acts, the wilderness act, for example. instead, what happened, incrementally, year by year, but really happened during the bush years of late, mms really