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In your first term around cigarette tax? >> when i became governor, spending actually increased 2% in my first term. revenue increased 42% my first term. without raising anybodys taxes we did it because we had more taxpayers with more taxable income. thats how you get your revenue up. we did that without raising anybodys taxes. revenue increased 50% faster than spending increase. spending went up 2, revenue went up 42. 50% difference. without raising taxes. i did my second term, raised the cigar...

Institutes of health. and 500 million from the cops program, which puts more police on the streets. congressman, when it gets down to those specification, are you willing to defend all of those cuts? >> yes. because last year these agencies got double and triple digit spending increases. you throw the stimulus in there, e.p.a. got a triple-digit spending increase. look, if borrowing and spending was the way to create jobs, we would be at full employment. we are not. we have high unemployment. so...

Be the speaker of the house, he is plenty tough. >> bill: yeah, but the reason they are asking you on these affiliates because it makes some people uneasy. >> there is no question about that and well talk about that. look, we will also talk to about, you know, i see the possibility of a deal here. i think there is a real possibility that you will see a significant spending cut and that what obama with the five year freeze was proposing was simply a negotiating tool. they have got to come to an a...

Be the speaker of the house, he is plenty tough. >> bill: yeah, but the reason they are asking you on these affiliates because it makes some people uneasy. >> there is no question about that and well talk about that. look, we will also talk to about, you know, i see the possibility of a deal here. i think there is a real possibility that you will see a significant spending cut and that what obama with the five year freeze was proposing was simply a negotiating tool. they have got to come to an a...

>> thats one of the reasons that paul ryan is right, both parties have contributed to a crisis in spending. >> but the competitiveness agenda. didnt george w. bush -- i thought he came out in favor of it. >> the point is when you have a $1.4 trillion deficit, you cant look at things from 2004 eyes, you have to look at them in 2011 eyes. we can no longer afford things we want. >> we cant pay for teachers who are going to educate our kids, we cant pay for that? >> you want to talk about specific s...

To be more competitive. sounds like more spending. but ari, didnt george w. bush embrace this whole report on being more competitive, that came out of the national academies of science and engineering and put it forward and got it approved on capital hill? arent people in the republican party fundamentally for this? >> thats one of the reasons that paul ryan is right, both parties have contributed to a crisis in spending. >> but the competitiveness agenda. didnt george w. bush -- i thought he ca...

Embrace this whole report on being more competitive, that came out of the national academies of science and engineering and put it forward and got it approved on capital hill? arent people in the republican party fundamentally for this? >> thats one of the reasons that paul ryan is right, both parties have contributed to a crisis in spending. >> but the competitiveness agenda. didnt george w. bush -- i thought he came out in favor of it. >> the point is when you have a $1.4le from deficit, you c...

Bunnings argument that were not going to extend these benefits and these other things until we figure out how to pay for them would be fine. and i would justify them. id say the president wants to do paygo. okay. well, then we will spend this additional money once you tell us where its coming from. >> thats fair. >> unfortunately, they voted for a $7 trillion drug benefit. medicare drug benefit. they couldnt afford. two wars. two tax cuts. the biggest spending increase. domestic spending increas...

Other spots should be considered because of security concerns. >> julie: the president will hand over the budget proposal to congress tomorrow, it totals $3.8 trillion and how will it likely to be received on capitol hill, white house correspondent, thank you for joining us, and the president will send the 2011 budget to congress and he promise to freeze spending on dues of government agencies, but then, he also plans to spend more money on trying to bring down the nations high unemployment. and...

Allow us to pass the most significant legislation to expand support help american families the new deal. this is generational, transformational change. charles: chuck schumer this week comparing a democrat $3.5 trillion solution to the new bill promising generational change. democrats are pushing the largest spending increase in u.s. history, not to mention a huge expansion in the size and scope of government. with everything from universal pre-k to family sleeve to community college on the tabl...