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Tough decision, and i voted against the bill tonight. you know, while it eases -- i actually think "the new york times" described it the best this morning as a minimalist budget deal. and while it does ease the across-the-board indiscriminate cuts, the sequester, in fact, we have seen an unbelievable erosion of the priority of this nation in education and health care, child. head start, biomedical research. they suffered such a blow over the last decade that there is no ability, in fact, to incr...

For any jobs package that would bring that 7% unemployment down. theres protection, what i call election protection, because theres not going to be a shutdown, which the republicans know is terribly unpopular. so im trying to figure out, where is the victory here for the democrats? i mean, in a deal there is always winners and losers. theres people that go in the back room and start high-fiving one another. i just dont think the democrats are high-fiving one another right now. >> well, you know,...

Republicans and a lot of people who are on the military lady committees, obviously the pentagon and those in the defense industry really hate those sequester cuts, that there was going to be something of a rebellion and his argument is this is the best we can. do do you think you could have negotiated a better deal with patty murray? >> doing nothing maintains the sequester. it is to undo the limited spending cuts of the sequester. if the leadership was really committed to the sequester which th...

Thing, a deficit reduction package is very misleading. >> i think it was call the worst least option even those who are saying it should pass are not saying it is a great deal. paul ryans argument is, this is the best that can be done right now. you know that appropriate raters, both democrats and republicans and a lot of people who are on the military lady committees, obviously the pentagon and those in the defense industry really hate those sequester cuts, that there was going to be something ...

Ideology or a shift in the way that the caucus is going to attempt to govern. the fact that we have a budge set a great thing. we need to underscore that. >> thats what martha stewart would call a good thing. >> its a good thing. but what we know is that the philosophy remains, that the republicans are still very resistant to doing things to enhance the american publics ability to thrive and instead theyre focusing on how to save corporations and the wealthy essentially. thats what we saw with t...

The fact boehner and obama back it, thats a positive sign. the will be a lot sniping and cross fire. thats one of the reasons why paul ryan spent much of the press conference trying to mak the case that he wasnt a conservative sellout. >> for marco rubio, the republican of florida rejecting the deal saying we need a government with less debt and an economy with more good paying jobs. this fails to accomplish both goals. he doesnt like that it eliminates the sequester cuts. paul ryan predicts ts ...

That was just loud. brian shakt man, in the show, we have interesting followups on the kenyan mall shooting courtesy of the new york city police department. we want to begin in washington, d.c. a budget deal has been reached between the senate and the house negotiators. so the called cease-fire on capitol hill buys lawmakers time to address the nations larger fiscal issues such as the tax code, health care and social security. paul ryan and patty murray brokered the deal which raises military an...

>> the sequester cuts. theyre gone. >> at least part of them are gone and theyre replaced with more flexible spending cuts that congress can work toward. basically what the idea is there, that people who are upset about thing like defense cuts, conservatives, you can work around those. and maybe the democrats who are concerned about some of the cuts to domestic programs, they can work around those. paid for with additional money going to federal workers pensions. that is something the democrats ...

Year? >> thats right. i mean, one of the problems with the sequester cuts, those forced budget cuts was you know, they were never supposed to happen. they were supposed to be so draconian, so onerous and horrific theres no way they would ever take effect. thats how they were designed. of course, they did take effect. now there are spending cuts but theres a lot more flexibility. theyre not as deep. and there are ways for people in decision making it positions to decide what gets cut and what doe...

Months. >> it seems like a triumph when we can keep the government opened. lets get the details the so-called cease-fire on capitol hill. five law make, addressing the larger fiscal issuessh such as the tax code, health care costs and social security senator paul ryan brokered the deal, which raises domestic spending through 2015. the plan also replaces $53 billion in sequester cuts over the next three years and cuts it from long term deficits. last night congressman ryan spoke about the negotia...