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Break as you know. when you look at the sequester, senate democrats are expected to announce their plan to avoid the sequester, showing that according to one report its a 50/50 split over the next ten months, spending cuts and new taxes, part of their idea, including the buffett rule, which is the cap deductions and loopholes for millionaires so they pay at least 30% of their salaries in taxes. would you support that as we get closer to that deadline? >> yes, and i think the senate is really on ...

Spending. now, for the last two years, the house has done its work, weve passed legislation to tackle the tough challenges that america faces only to see our senate colleagues do nothing. well, those days are over. the house will continue to meet our obligations. but the senate democrats must begin to do their work. thats why we passed the no budget no pay act of requiring the senate to pass a budget for the first time in four years and thats why were going to insist that they finally pass a pla...

Some of the resources for infrastructure, for building new schools. it doesnt get the federal government involved in curriculum, but rather in helping with deferred maintenance and helping to build these facilities. that doesnt interfere with that state federal role. but there is an important obligation here to try to help, particularly in those states that are really struggling. i think my colleague ms. blackburn would like to see the federal government out of everything. and a much diminished ...

This legislation is expected to follow regular order. were talking about committee hearings, markup, a conference committee with it ending up on the presidents desk as early as this summer. perhaps after the august recess. if the president however insists on immediate pathway for citizenship for those 11 million it will be scene by conservative republicans as a poison pill and may jeopardize the spirit of bipartisanship we are seeing now. bill: thank you, doug mckelway on the hill this morning. ...

Speech met with stoney faces including house speaker john boehner who came out blasting the president moments ago. >> last night the president offered up more of the same. higher taxes and more stimulus spending. weeks away from the presidents sequester and the president laid out no plan. >> the speech we got was par for the course. very liberal, fairly partisan. >> does president obamas post speech tour and his message last night signal a commander-in-chief whose second term strategy is with or...

Of gas the farther along they go, i get is is not surprising if the president trots out a laundry list of things he would like to accomplish that would lean more toward the liberal side. >> sure. as you said these are usually laundry is also, theyre usually shopping lists of things to get done. of course it tend toward the ideology of the president in the white house. but when you get a leaked message from the white house and the administration that this particular speech is going to be aggressi...

Communications director for the conservative club for growth to tweet on his personal account, every time i hear the republicans call this the presidents sequester, my head explodes, because they all voted for the legislation that created it. that puts the communications director for an ultra-conservative anti-tax organization with a very sensitive head and the press secretary for the white house on exactly the same page when it comes to the republican lie about the sequester. >> when the budget...

Addresses to congress. it wont just frame the coming year, but the budget battles to take place in the next three to six weeks. it starts with the $85 billion in budget cuts coming march 1st if nothing is done to alter the so-called sequester. according to the white house, the president will continue to press congress on the fiscal issues with tax reform and tax hikes and entitlements and he previewed that message in his weekend. >> there is no reason that middle-class families and small busines...

And thats sequester. he knows the republicans an conservatives do not want $600 billion in defense cuts to go in to effect. starting in 2013. the president said i would veto any attempt to block sequester unless i get the tax increases on the top 2%. remember, one more thing, the top -- these tax increases are not fiscally -- it wont do that much. this is pure liberal ideology. pure ideology. >> bret: president charles is signaling to top democrats if he wins he will break the back of republican...

Peter doocy is standing by with more from washington. >> youre right, united states embassies abroad will suffer further security setbacks if the sequester takes effect because there are $129 million in cuts to embassy security and maintenance and construction in a 394-page report released by the white house yesterday that lays out the specific things that add up to the $1.2 trillion in cuts over the next decade. half copping from domestic programs examine half coming from defense spending. >> i...