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Get rid of it we have a pass a budget, and then we use the budget vote to repeal obama. >> narrator: care. however, the debt is really important to our country. we have a $20 trillion debt, and i cannot vote for a budget that never balances. right now the republicans in the senate are contemplating putting fwargt a budget that will never balance. i cant be in favor of that even if it means repealing obama care. i think we can do both. i think we can be for a budget that balances. >> it will be v...

Many republican governors and senators and even a growing number of reasonable republican congressmen telling the extreme right of their party to knock it off, pass a budget. move on. and i want to underscore the fact that congress doesnt just have to end this shutdown and we open the government. congress generally has to stop governing by crisis. they have to break this habit. it is a drag on the economy. it is not worthy of this country. for example, one of the most important things congress h...

Of the hiccups. there are some indications they might be close to a resolution, but congressman west, to you first. there are two ways to look at this. number one, again, the democrats could have passed a budget. we wouldnt be having this conversation. you would be maybe adding that to next years budget. could you look at it this way. youre coming into a mass at a temporary spending measure. lets leave the idealogical stuff out. find a spending cut number and move forward. or -- and do it in a b...

An expert in the budget because of all this. chris. >> yeah, john. basically the word we got this afternoon from some defense officials here at the pentagon was, yeah, if it gets done by tuesday, then they can still crunch the numbers in time to get a full check by next friday. if it drag on a little longer than that, yeah, they will get the half check mechanics friday, but theyre not going to have to wait all the way to may 1st to get that back pay. that theyre already working on some ways to e...

About? right now how much are they debating in terms of the cuts? if this dollar is the entire federal budget, the entire federal budget, see that little bit? see that little tiny line? thats what were debating about. in the context of federal spending, thats the entire federal budget for the year. your government could shut down because of an argument over that much. that is what your congress and your president are disagreeing about tonight. it is that much money in the context of the entire f...

Having this conversation, we would be debating much bigger issues, much bigger spending issues, if the democrats had simply done what the constitution asked them to do and a pass a budget. >> let me just tell you, im certainly not embarrassed by it what was accomplished in the 111th congress. i think many historic things were. my understanding, although you know neither mr. west nor myself were here was that budgets were passed out of the house, but they got stuck in the senate. i just have to t...

I know the political ramifications for republicans because he was there when republicans got the blame, you know, from here to eternity for the last step down in the mid 1990 sxz then president clinton was one who benefitted from it. he absolutely knows the problems here. that is why both sides, john says, at this late hour they continue to work on this long-term bill to fund the government for the rest of this fiscal year. that is their focus. both sides say that they have in their back pocket ...

That he means it. this really is -- its not just the first dance that he is having across the rotunda with the democratic leader, harry reid. its the first dance he is having with his fellow republicans, and he needs to make it very clear. he is going to do his best now because this is just, as you said, tiddl yr winks. its just a few billion dollars that theyre haggling over, but thats just the beginning of the very, very important long-term fight that he is going to have to fight again over th...

Extreme. not only extreme but insane. >> a lot of what you wrote and said makes sense, but you cannot do it in a day that you want to commit. before this, you know, whole temporary spending measure dies down and the government could shut down on april 8th. having said that, senator, if you get cuts in the $60 billion or $65 billion close to what republicans want, is that enough get your vote to at least get the government through the rest of the box? >>guest: as far as finishing out the year, i ...

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