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Budget. and then this, this is what that clean cr is shockingly close to, the 2014 ryan budget of $966 billion, the ryan budget. >> this years ryan budget turns out looks like last years ryan republican budget. i wasnt the only one that said gee whiz, not again. >> there are many reasons to oppose the ryan budget. paul ryans budget is march madness. >> okay, the very thing that the president of the united states ran against when he won re-election, that is the ryan budget. so the spending level ...

Theres no difference on the spending level. why do the democrats object to this continuing resolution? because it takes away -- it us is spends for a year forcing people to buy an health insurance policy they dont. thats what the senate democrats are going to have to stand on. politically they have ended up in a good place later than they might otherwise have been. >> let me push back here. there are many moderate members were hearing from capitol hill that dont think that their staff should hav...

>> you know if you said to them, they would say we think this is a disaster because it is hurting businesses. it is causing businesses to go from full-time jobs to part-time jobs so they can get out from under health care. >> it is an excuse. it is not a reason. it is an excuse, it is not a reason. now for the 42nd time this week, they voted to defund -- one approach or another, defund the affordable care act. they know its not going any place. instead of spending the time of congress to reach a...

See new ones each day arising, it putters out on its own? >> thats the idea, thats the plot so to speak, that john boehner has been trying to figure out a way that the people who are under pressure from home to take another vote to defund or stop or something else obama care can go ahead and do that, and then there still winds up being no shutdown. i think thats the way the story ends. i think there wont be a shutdown over at least the continuing resolution, because privately the white house has...

Want the government shut down. and they dont want obama care. >> the house has listened to the american people. now its time for the united states senate to listen to them as well. >> right now the debate thats going on in congress is not meeting the test of helping middle class families. its just theyre not focused on you. theyre focused on politics. theyre focused on trying to mess with me. >> lets get some more now with our chief political correspondent, the host of state of the union, candy ...

Often of -- >> of an increase. its not a real cut. the washington cut. >> absolutely. so, you know, many people say we need to go to a zero base budget. you know, i think that, you know, we need to start looking at why cant we go back to a spending level, i dont know, 2006, 2007 so that we can start getting things under control and furthermore, were not really seeing a slowdown of the growth of the federal government. i mean you still have a huge bureaucracy with federal government employees and...

The same debate from the beginning. >> you say there is a chance of finding compromise. >> develop is the first thiam they passed the budget for fiscal year in normal ordinary course. in 2008 they passed it for half a year, hoping president obama would get elected. the republican budget is $22 billion less than the spending level. down 1.6% -- 0.6%. democrats want to spend $3 $3.7,815,000,000,000,000. $162 billion or 4.5% more than spending this year.

Problem. i hope that happens when gets back from israel. >> chris: before you deal with the budget you have to pass a continuing resolution before march 27 and going on recess at the end of this week, to keep the government running otherwise it shuts down. the question, senator durbin, is will the senate pass a cr, a continuing resolution that keeps spending at $984 billion which is what the spending level is of the house cr including the sequester cuts? >> chris, when i left, washington, on thu...

Problem. i hope that happens when gets back from israel. >> chris: before you deal with the budget you have to pass a continuing resolution before march 27 and going on recess at the end of this week, to keep the government running otherwise it shuts down. the question, senator durbin, is will the senate pass a cr, a continuing resolution that keeps spending at $984 billion which is what the spending level is of the house cr including the sequester cuts? >> chris, when i left, washington, on thu...

>> not much, if any. besides, the republicans have ideological reason. part of the republican principles. they want to reduce spending. so does the public. >> bret: juan? >> i have a different point of view. >> bret: not surprising. i am struck by this. >> the polls i have seen, show clearly people are asked who is to blame for the catastrophic situation in washington they say its the republicans. the latest poll here is 43-34 republicans. when you ask what would you cut, even if its just republ...