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American people are. they dont care if theres an "r" or a "d" after your name. they would like elected officials to get this budget under control. when youre talking about stopgap measures and if its the republicans having the right conversation, the right debate even if its contention among themselves because the democrats wont, thats exactly where the debate needs to be. a few weeks ago, the gao came out with a report saying there is an up to $100 billion annually wasted in redunndant programs...

Talk about it, its called hr-1. it would fund the government for the rest of this fiscal year through the end of september. it has reductions in spending of $61 billion. which on a $3.7 trillion budget is not much. in fact, if you had a $10,000 budget in your home, by the way, 40% of that would be on your credit your credit card, but you would be slashing spending according to democrats by 28 bucks. so its not a huge cut. we ask what can republicans do? the house has put out its proposed budget ...

Those stopgap measures, we need to get together and we need to come up with a compromise, and, we need to keep the government moving again. what happened last week, in the house, is not the way to use a meat clever to chop at programs that are very important for food safety, for air safety, for security, and things like that and we have silly things like eliminating the presidents teleprompter to not having repairs at the white house and these may be feel-good things but they dont really do it. ...

Really more like a hundred billion, im not sure that adds up. democratic friends in the senate they are only going to cut $41 billion. that a good thing and especially since the senate is taking a break all next week, leaving them a few days to take up the bill before march 4th because that is when the stopgap measures and the government is shut down. over the weekend, rick santelli said this. >> if the country was ever attacked like 9/11. we all respond with sense of urgency. what is going on o...

Billion, im not sure that adds up. democratic friends in the senate they are only going to cut $41 billion. that a good thing and especially since the senate is taking a break all next week, leaving them a few days to take up the bill before march 4th because that is when the stopgap measures and the government is shut down. over the weekend, rick santelli said this. >> if the country was ever attacked like 9/11. we all respond with sense of urgency. what is going on on balance sheets throughout...

Their ideas are part of the law of the land now. >> larry: how about the millions who still dont have health insurance? what do they do? >> well, larry, over the course of enacting this bill, what people have to understand is this is a gradual process. we will now have affordable coverage for everyone. so this year alone, there will be kind of some stopgap measures. a high-risk pool for those americans who have preexisting conditions, and right now are often locked out by insurance companies or ...

Has a lot of bipartisan support. unfortunately, this conversation got very partisan from the outset, and i am disappointed that not a single republican voted for the bill, even though their ideas are part of the law of the land now. >> larry: how about the millions who still dont have health insurance? what do they do? >> well, larry, over the course of enacting this bill, what people have to understand is this is a gradual process. we will now have affordable coverage for everyone. so this year...

Or higher the people who have dropped out because they ran out of benefits, dropped out because they cant find a job or people doing a part-time job in a field unrelated theyre qualified for something else because theyre trying to get some income in. this is a staggering situation. i dont think people understand. i dont think people understand there are 30 some million people in there country being fed by food stamps, 19 million in college. think of that. we have a government, as a government we...

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