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>> claire mccaskill, she has been out here talking about this budget. house democrats and senate democrats have moved in her direction. the bottom line is this, though, she voted against hr-1 as did every other democrat. thats the republican proposal because i think were united in one thing. we should make significant cuts, absolutely. we need to. but, we cant cut into our seed corn. we cant cut into things that help america grow and create jobs like education or cancer research or food safety, ...

>> as i said, this short-term cr does meet our basic criteria. the president and senate democrats which is cut the waste, cut inefficiency but dont cut the seed corn. and the tsunami shows that as well. we propose cutting some earmarks out of the funding of noaa which has the regulation and watching out for tsunamis. they cut so much out of noaa which funds the tsunami warning center that there would have to be furloughs there. so were sticking to where were at. the short-term cr moved us in tha...

Be able to continue our use of the space station, for instance. its just now operable. its just now becoming useful, and its a national laboratory. were doing not only health research that cant be done on earth, it has to be in microgravity conditions, but also energy research. this is the future. its our seed corn. if we cant put people up there, then the space station is going to be not utilized. we cant extend it to 2020. and using just commercial, which is my biggest problem with this propos...

An essential. >> gregg: congressman, before the recess, your party, the gop, blocked an extension of unemployment insurance for people out of work for more than six months. how do republicans explain that to the millions of people trying to put food on the table and keep a roof over their heads? >> they didnt block it all. they say you are going to take it from a particular group, you not need to borrow more. the national debt has gone up 500%. the entire collection of income taxes in america is...

That seems to be the only answers. >> these guys spent so much money. our children, our grandchildren and great grandchildrens money to the point if they dont cut spending, the only thing they can do to act like they want to balance the budget is to raise tax. the problem is when you raise taxes in an economy like this, more people lose jobs, more people have government dependency and fewer people are paying taxes. its really eating your seed corn or if you will, biting off your fingers and hopi...

Front of me to paraphrase what they said was the reductions in medicare in the big bill which is what the president signed today will be spent on new programs that have nothing to do with medicare they were very forthright about this. it was a very practical matter. you are going to take a huge amount out of medicare, use it to fund new entitlement programs that the president wanted and medicare which is already headed towards insolvency is going to have used up what i call the seed corn or the ...

Feel it in their own wallet, their own pocket, their own lives. we talk about big numbers, but when your school isnt open, its a whole different situation. >> you talk about eating your own seed corn. this is a great example of that, because as tom friedman said earlier this week, the way we move forward in this country, we have got to start figuring out how to grow the vine? you do that with education. do you that by having the most educated, brightest kids on the planet. were doing that here i...

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Critical programs and theyre not going to touch the pentagon? theyre not going to touch social security? theyre not going to touch medicare? you cant do it! >> you cant do it. >> youve got to go where the money is. >> thats where the money is. >> you morphed into jerry winechild. >> you did. i thought you were doing jerry. >> you know what, joe, not just christie and bloomer but cuomo and jerry brown. a lot of the things theyre talking about are not even for the baby boomers. as we said if theyr...