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Holding the line and holding all the cards right now to try to reduce that spending figure. if it does pass, it will be lower than 3.5 even. so its very difficult to say what will happen. its easy. i have to tell you. a lot of people say what about the difficult votes this year. voting no is the easiest thing to do. the question is when republicans are in power, when we win the majority in 2022, what are we going to do. are we going to do what we always do, increase the debt ceiling, increase ta...

Their incredibly misbegotten approach. >> but it is ignore the cost to the american people of what theyre doing. >> they also said they got elected to impose austerity, and they succeeded. we talked about the spending figure that is just a nose above the ryan budget. speaking of people coming to washington to shake things up. take a listen to what ted cruz said before he got on the floor of the senate, take a listen. >> mr. president, this fight was always about the american people who were hurt...

Staffers worked until 3:00 in the morning and how acrimonious this has become, disagreement over what the disagreement is about. saying its about the planned parenthood and epa and where things are breaking down and republicans are saying, no, its about the spending, we cant agree on spending figure and composition of the cuts. as of last night, the range of where the spending cuts would be was between 34 and $37 billion. so the white house was coming up a little bit from their number, boehner w...

Henry clay said this -- if you cannot compromise, you cannot govern. henry clay, let me repeat that to my friends on your side of the aisle. "if you cannot compromise, you cannot govern." now, we are on the brink of bringing the government to a halt. that makes no sense. >> well, republican and democrats on capitol hill cant even agree about what the disagreement is over at this point. republicans are saying its about the spending figure, the spending cuts in the bill, while democrats say the de...