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Standing on end. >> he sent a letter to a congressional committee, where you said it was justified and should go to this conference birth said hell look more carefully in the future about the line items. the next big question for dimarco, the overseer of fannie and freddie, will be the 2011 bonuses paid to fannie and freddie executives. >> he has already supported them. he has already come out and said its to attract good talent. >> he had $35 million in bonuses in the last two years already for...

Standing on end. >> he sent a letter to a congressional committee, where you said it was justified and should go to this conference birth said hell look more carefully in the future about the line items. the next big question for dimarco, the overseer of fannie and freddie, will be the 2011 bonuses paid to fannie and freddie executives. >> he has already supported them. he has already come out and said its to attract good talent. >> he had $35 million in bonuses in the last two years already for...

Top and apocalyptic. why shouldnt the military be looked at? >> it should be looked at. there a lot of line items that need to be cut, but if the committee cant reach agreement on what needs to be cut, the across the board cuts will adversely affect the line items that should not be cut as much as others. leon panettas talk while apocalyptic is right on the money, agencies have been asked what the organizations will look like with across the board cuts. some of them are dangerous. >> the pentago...

Friday on capitol hill. that deal averted a federal shutdown by cutting more than $38 billion from this years budget. today we will learn exactly what will be cut. in libya, talk of a cease-fire is being met with skepticism. mediators from the african union kay moammar gadhafi has agreed to stop hostilities and allow international peacekeepers to monitor a truce, but there is no mention of gadhafi stepping down. in northeastern japan, another powerful earthquake has struck one month to the d...

Hillary clinton said we have unique capability, how about we have a lot of stuff that works well that no one can approach and the cost of a tomahawk missile. 695,000 each. so spent a lot of mountain yesterday. >> did we spend all of that money, out of our pocket. >> i think its funny to monetarize, this humanitarian effort. how much does a human, civilian life. we rarely do this when we break down war in terms of how much each missile costs? >> regarding the cost because in the twitter verse, th...

House. there was $100,000 come straight out of the ambassadors fund in tokyo for these kinds of disasters. japan being the third largest economy in the world does have more resources than pretty much any other country out there. theres an offer really of the technical expertise more than a financial burden i think where people are looking at the financial cost, not direct aid. its what this does to the global economy. were seeing already an impact on the markets now of this terrible human traged...

Money going out to schools all around the country. and secondly, there is a new bipartisan bill, theyve just introduced and trying to get bipartisan support that would put in a code of conduct for schools that get federal money and put in there as part of that code of conduct that bullying violence, assault, harassment et cetera is unacceptable. $120 million is decent money for these schools as a starter but as you know, the budget fight is ongoing on much bigger line items like medicare and the...

Party wave last november. theres a supermajority in the texas house of conservative republicans, i mean really conservative republicans. but in the end, i think its downfall will be the business interests, including some of governor rick perrys biggest campaign contributors who are interested not so much in these social issues as they are in taxes, and certainly dont want to shut off the tap when it comes to an expense of labor forces in texas. >> you talk about $27 billion shortfall, that is a ...

Real spending 9%. every department of state government was cut. and we balanced the budget without any new or increased taxes on the people of the state of new jersey for the first time in eight years. and the budget they called did on arrival without an income tax increase was passed two days early with 99.8% of the line items exactly as they were when i submitted them back in march with a democratic legislature. why? because we stood up for what we believed in. and we made it very clear that w...

Republicans are offering? >> its going to be really fascinating because the republican ron on and were successful in binge-- the moment they hit the ground running in 2011 and to their credit theyre keeping their promise, but when you look at the line items what they are he a cutting, its pretty big cuts, a billion dollars from the environmental protection agency, not a million, a billion dollars. thats a lot of money from one single agency. but if you want to get to 100 billion youre going to m...