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Care. maybe they could have secured the borders. maybe they could have put forward a dynamic vision for the country. and now basically thats not going to happen. >> heres the interesting thing. we did have something we called the sequester. and it had a $63 billion cut in all this discretionary spending and both republicans and democrats got together and abandoned that about a year ago. we passed a new budget and said were no longer going to have these cuts -- >> the one thing actually worked pu...

Care. maybe they could have secured the borders. maybe they could have put forward a dynamic vision for the country. and now basically thats not going to happen. >> heres the interesting thing. we did have something we called the sequester. and it had a $63 billion cut in all this discretionary spending and both republicans and democrats got together and abandoned that about a year ago. we passed a new budget and said were no longer going to have these cuts -- >> the one thing actually worked pu...

Putting a little discipline in the fiscal process, right? >> im hoping were going to do better. im in my caucus every day debating this and saying we need to do a better job. when were in control lets pass every appropriations bill and lets put thousands of instructions in every bill to the president how to spend money. because next year we will control completely the power of the purse. and all i can say is we damn well better use it. >> you better use it and better have alternative to get the ...