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To act small. had you a group of four democrats offer what was less than 2% of the budget worth of cuts to an appropriations bill. they found those cuts by going after programs that were added by appropriators not included in the presidents original budget request. they found that they were going to get a significant amount of push-back for not just telling the appropriators now do their job that is not necessarily surprising to anybody that four junior members of the house would not be received...

That made sense they were areas of the budget that often still had money in there that wasnt expended we were putting more spending on top of money that hadnt been spent yet but had already been appropriated. >> neil: are you angry? >> yes, very frustrated not only at the push-back. we fried get republican support as well it was obvious that republicans didnt want to support a democratic amendment from four junior members. a lot of democrats didnt want to have the cuts. we got push-back from bot...

>> reporter: the house bill wasnt paid for which is why there is so much push-back. the senators say they are going to increase the fees on visas of workers coming from india. the companies who hire those workers would get hit with fee increases. but, thats the senate democrats plan. the republicans are pitching a similar plan as far as structure, they want it paid for by using 600 million dollars from the federal stimulus money. the question here is, can they work their differences out before t...

Reaction from the usda. it wasnt warranted. >> greta: the other reason i think there was a knee-jerk reaction as i sit back and watch, can we call a truce on flinging the word racism on both sides. it is the most -- racism does exist, both ways. it is extremely painful to be falsely labeled and it is a horrible thing to be accused of it. >> it is a terrible feature of our politics but i dont think it is going anywhere now. you have seen it a lot about the tea parties and this mess was created as...

Were talking about this tonight because the curtain has been pulled back. this was so transapartment, the way that -- that andrew brightbart edited that clip to -- to make it seem as if she were saying something diametrically opposed to what she actually said, and when the truth came out, you could just see -- see it as the tactic that it is. and i think theres -- there have to be ways to capitalize on that. and to push back on that. i think the way you deal with bullies is dont run away from th...

Reaction from the usda. it wasnt warranted. >> greta: the other reason i think there was a knee-jerk reaction as i sit back and watch, can we call a truce on flinging the word racism on both sides. it is the most -- racism does exist, both ways. it is extremely painful to be falsely labeled and it is a horrible thing to be accused of it. >> it is a terrible feature of our politics but i dont think it is going anywhere now. you have seen it a lot about the tea parties and this mess was created as...

Way that -- that andrew brightbart edited that clip to -- to make it seem as if she were saying something diametrically opposed to what she actually said, and when the truth came out, you could just see -- see it as the tactic that it is. and i think theres -- there have to be ways to capitalize on that. and to push back on that. i think the way you deal with bullies is dont run away from them. confront them, push back. maybe thats a lesson the white house can draw from this too. push back. >> g...

About safety regulations proposed. business round table has sent a letter to the white house talking about corporate tax levels -- something has to beholding down the economy it is a legit miss question whether this rush of regulation that the administration has proudly passed is the problem? i think thats the message the which is community to trying to send. >> how big a political problem is this james? >> it is huge. it is coming from across the spectrum, if you will, of people ingaged in busi...

We had an influx of crimes committed by illegal aliens in rhode island. as you know we are a small state of about a million people. and the state police has statewide jurisdiction. we partnered with ice in a program introductory ice program for all troopers in rhode island. in 2008, governor issued an executive order allowing the state police to engage in this 287-g program. at that time, there was a push-back by some community leaders, in my opinion for personal gain. they thought we were going...

We had an influx of crimes committed by illegal aliens in rhode island. as you know we are a small state of about a million people. and the state police has statewide jurisdiction. we partnered with ice in a program introductory ice program for all troopers in rhode island. in 2008, governor issued an executive order allowing the state police to engage in this 287-g program. at that time, there was a push-back by some community leaders, in my opinion for personal gain. they thought we were going...