entitlement reform. my goal here is to have a serious conversation about those things that are driving the deficit and driving the debt up. reporter: as the government remains partially shut down for a seventh day, the white house wants a vote to fund the government, no strings attached, again, rebuffed by republicans. there are not the votes in the house to pass a clean cr. reporter: but president obama bolstered by many objective observers questioned that assertion in an interview with the associated press, saying, we know that there are enough members in the house of representatives, democrats and republicans, who are prepared to vote to reopen the government today. the only thing that is keeping that from happening is speaker boehner has made a decision that is he going to hold out to see if can he get additional concessions from us. the stalemate in washington becoming good fodder for late night, saturday night live featured miley cyrus as michee e
crs or continuing resolutions all week. we ve been trying to fund government. we ve been trying to reopen government, and at every point harry reid says, no, he doesn t want to open government. you ve been putting on clean crs. no strings attached? well, yeah. we ve been trying to fund different parts of government all week. we ve passed bill after bill after bill that s a piecemeal approach, no? it s the same thing. these are clean crs, meaning there s no strings attached. we ve been passing nih funding, veteran funding. here s the thing that people don t realize. that s historically the way it s always been. you pass small appropriation bills so you can look at them individually. it s actually a much better way to run government, because right now you re sticking everything into one bill, and that s why the leverage of shutting the government down occurs. but if you did things appropriately and you passed appropriation bills one at a time, no one would be able to shut dow
wants a vote to fund the government, no strings attached. again, rebuffed by republicans. there are not the votes in the house to pass a clean cr. reporter: but president obama, bolstered by many objective observers, questioned that assertion in an interview with the associated press, saying, quote. we know there are enough members in the house of representatives, democrats and republicans, who are prepared to vote to reopen the government today. the only thing that is keeping that from happening is speaker boehner has made a decision that he is going to hold out to see if he can get additional concessions from us. the stalemate in washington becoming good fodder for late night. saturday night live featured guest host miley cyrus as michele bachmann celebrating the shutdown with speaker boehner in this riske parody. brianna keilar, washington. right now in syria a team is dismantling that country s
actually, he was more specific in his speech last week, republicans allowing to pay bills for things we already bought, but we don t have the money. that s why obama care seems to come in, because it s very expensive. no talk of spending cuts, though, right? not yet. the republicans would like to make that part of it, and in fact, they have talked about a compromise where they would relax some of the immediate, automatic spending cuts under the sequester in return for long-term spending cuts and debt reduction under entitlement reform. the main point is the president is saying, we re not going to negotiate. you threatened to default the government in 2011 so you have to pass a clean bill, no strings attached. if the opposite of clean is dirty, there have been a number, 27, as i say, dirty crs. and by a margin of 4 to 1, democratic congresses have insists on dirty crs and only
website saying, quote, you are working tirelessly to end this government shutdown. fact of the matter, there is one way to end the shutdown right now, have speaker boehner put a clean budget resolution on the floor of the house. it would pass with republicans, it would pass with democrats. would you call on speaker boehner to do that this morning? we ve been putting out clean crs or continuing resolutions all week. we ve been trying to fund government. we ve been trying to reopen government, and at every point harry reid says, no, he doesn t want to open government. you ve been putting on clean crs. no strings attached? well, yeah. we ve been trying to fund different parts of government all week. we ve passed bill after bill after bill that s a piecemeal approach, no? it s the same thing. these are clean crs, meaning there s no strings attached. we ve been passing nih funding, veteran funding. here s the thing that people don t realize. that s historically the way it s alwa