organization should be about. bill: you know, some of the taxpayer dollars fund the budget for npr. that s right. bill: there had been an effort and it failed in the florida house to take the money away. is that reigniting now? well, i think clearly what the republican majority in the house, the issue will come up, and, so, to my mind, if you have a retrenchment, in fact, they really don t change if things go back to business as usual, it is hard to justify why public dollars should go to any organization but especially one that represents only one point of view in the political spectrum. so that becomes very difficult. i hope the change we start to see yesterday will signal something of a harbinger of a change and openness, and at least they can make a case to congress for why they want special treatment. bill: they look at your mile post after working there ten years and say, that is when it changed. speaking of change. how long have you been covering news there in washington?
budget, and here he is in an nbc interview. do you consider the defense budget sacred? do you consider it absolutely not. bill: do you consider the homeland security budget no! why not name a program right now, that we can do without. i don t think i have one off the top of my head. but, there are there is no part of this government that should be sacred. i believe there is room to find savings in the department of defense, and there are a lot of needs at the department of defense and i think secretary gates has a reasonable plan. jamie: retired major general james spider marks served as the senior intelligence officer for the coalition land forces during combat operations in iraq, good to see you, sir and thanks for being with us. good morning, jamie. jamie: i had the pleasure of being at the pentagon on tuesday and i heard a word i think we ll hear a lot more, called efficiencies. will these cuts make us more
vehicle, like a luxury vehicle to drive around the district, i m going to rent a van and take the senior citizens who really can t get out of their apartments and take them to a great supermarket where they can get fresh fruits and vegetables. that s unbelievable. a couple of times a month, that will reduce health care costs because people will have a decent diet. it s a strange thing. a lot of people outside of the inner city don t realize how bad it s gotten in the big city. take a look at this, here s speaker boehner tonight. he couldn t name a program that he d like to cut. kind of interesting for a veteran leader. let s listen to him. do you consider the defense budget sacred? do you consider absolutely not. do you consider the homeland security budget no. what goes? listen. name a program right now that we could do without. i don t think that i have one off of the top of my head, but there s there s no part of this government that should be sacred. i b
member of congress you know, instead of using taxpayer s dollars to buy myself some big vehicle, like a luxury vehicle to drive around the district, i m going to rent a van and take the senior citizens who really can t get out of their apartments and take them to a great supermarket where they can get fresh fruits and venezueget. that s unbelievable. a couple of times a month, that will reduce health care costs because people will have a decent diet. it s a strange thing. a lot of people outside of the inner city don t realize how bad it s gotent in big city. take a look at this, here s speaker boehner tonight. he couldn t name a program that he d like to cut. kind of interesting for a veteran leader. let s listen to him. do you consider the defense budget sacred? do you consider absolutely not. do you consider the homeland security budget no. what goes? liftean. name a program right now that we could do without. i don t think that i have one off of the top
done. democratic congressman, is there any middle ground for unemployment benefits before november 30th. we have to fund our government agencies. by december 4 if we don t, there will not be money to give out the social security checks and whatever else is needed. what that what t is we call continuing resolution to give the agencies money for a month or two, based on last year s budget and there will be no increases from last year and is a temporary measure, unfortunately, there are some things we should do. i believe strongly we should pass the defense budget and homeland security budget. we still are fighting terrorism, and we need to protect or country from that threat and also, need to give our troops, iraq and afghanistan the resources to do the job, as it relates to the issue of unemployment, these are individuals who had jobs and lost jobs and these are usually people who have families and