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Size of the pell grant itself went up. what we also did, partly because we were in a recessionary situation, and so more people were having to go back to school as opposed to work, what we also did was, for example, say that you can get pell grants for summer school. now were in a budget crunch, the takeup rate on the pell grant program has skyrocketed, the costs have gone up significantly. if we continue on this pace, sooner or later whats going to happen is were just going to have to chop off ...

>> thank you. jenna: thank you very much. you can see more of k.t. at foxnews.com where shes the host of defcon3 on mondays at 10 a.m. eastern time. dont miss it. jon: do you remember those deadly anthrax attacks that took place just after 9/11 back in be 2001? theres some new details now, what scientists are saying about the evidence used to blame an army researcher for mailing those envelopes filled with the deadly poison. plus, why consumers are getting hit hard by extreme weather around th...

Other provisions in the domestic spending that somehow that alone was going to solve the problem. so i welcome -- i think it was significant progress that there is an interest on all sides, on those issues. in terms of the markets, i think what the markets want to see is progress. the markets understand that we didnt get here overnight and were not going to get out overnight. what they want to see is that we have the capacity to work together. if they see us chipping away at this problem in a se...

$5 billion level, regardless of whats happening on the energy front. now, that doesnt mean that, you know, these arent still tough cuts, because there are always more people who could use some help across the country than we have resources. and so its still a tough decision, and i understand peoples frustrations with some of these decisions. having said that, my goal is to make sure that were looking after the vulnerable, were looking after the disabled, were looking after our seniors, were maki...

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Time the president should do his conference in the happening now chat room because the questions would be a lot pepperrier than they were i think the point of the press conference and think the chatters were keyed into this was the president put out a budget yesterday, it got kaoeud -- widely panned because it didnt address cuts and deficit and debt in a way that people across the political spectrum were spectrum were hoping that it would. what the president was basically doing today was defendi...

Loopholes. if thats the formula, then were not going to get it done. i wouldnt sign such a bill and i dont think the american people would sign such a bill. if youre a small business person out on main street and youre paying your taxes and you find out that youve got some big company with billions of dollars and far flung businesses all across the world and theyre paying a fraction of what youre paying in taxes, you know, youd be pretty irritated. and rightfully so. and so the whole idea of cor...

Have a hard time because their costs are going up, and the most vulnerable are the small stores who cant negotiate for lower prices because they dont buy in bulk. jenna: im thinking of the families out there that have growing children. you cant buy now for your kids as theyre growing every month. i mean, what are we supposed to do as consumers? >> reporter: theres really no answer other than one of the big input costs is oil. if you can get oil prices lower, you can lower that tide of all prices...

School thing, lets eliminate that. that will save us some money, but the core functions of the program are sustained. thats how were approaching all of these cuts. on the light heat program, the home assistance heating program, we doubled the -- doubled the home heating assistance program when i first came into office in part because there was a huge energy spike and so folks -- if we had just kept it at the same level, folks would have been in real trouble. energy prices have now gone down, but...

Shelved i think is incorrect it still provides a framework for a conversation part of the challenge is -- lets face it, you guys are pretty impatient. if something doesnt happen today, then the assumption is its just not going to happen, right? i mean, ive had this conversation for the last two years about every single issue that weve worked on, whether it was health care or dont ask dont tell, on egypt, right? weve had this monumental change over the last three weeks. well, why did it take thre...