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About what you were saying earlier about the nih. the nih funding has gone up dramatically over the years, and actually thats because of senate republicans under bill frist, leading the charge to double nih spending over the course of a decade. and in fact, it was a republican measure that would have restored those sequester cuts that was attached to the senate budget earlier this year. its not quite fair to say that republicans intended to send all these kids kicking and screaming off of the ca...

Just tired of looking at each other. and thats one of the things that i think is playing into this. i want to speak to a moment about what you were saying earlier about the nih. the nih funding has gone up dramatically over the years, and actually thats because of senate republicans under bill frist, leading the charge to double nih spending over the course of a decade. and in fact, it was a republican measure that would have restored those sequester cuts that was attached to the senate budget e...

Federal government. and its obviously a way to make people aware and to make a political point about the cost of the shutdown. disgraceful, political and entirely unnecessary. >> bret: george, you mentioned earlier about the word default. as we approach this debt ceiling date, the technical default and the understanding of that and what it means. the tax revenue coming. in and paying out the debts, the interest on the debt that the country owes to other countries. >> default is failure to pay yo...

Which is a budget for 2014, that would make a lot of sense to me. and even i, somebody who opposed the sequester from day one, i would hold my nose and vote for a six-extension, but im not going to hold my nose and vote for anything explore than that. >> were not sure that republicans and john boehner are open to pursuing some kind of grand bargain, again, you look at the history of john boehner and the republicans on the lines they have drawn in this, which is basically absolutely no new revenu...

The house republicans sent to the senate contains the exact amount of spending, the same 906 billi billion. the fight is only about obama care, if the government reopens, there is now no difference between the two parties in washington. keep that in mind if the republicans do back down on obama care, if they do end up accepting that clean funding bill and letting the government reopen. you may here rush limbaugh or jim demint call him a traitor, but if the government opens for business it will b...

The debt limit, which resulted in significant spending cuts. the republicans wanted more than that. a provision of the deal is spending would be slashed even further if the bipartisan budget was not passed in a year and a half. of course the deadline for the comprehensive bipartisan bill came and went in the spring, and so forgive me, we have what is known as the sequester. so the deep cuts that everybody used to say was a bad deal, now republicans kind of decide they like them, so they seem to ...

>> well, dont forget, the sequester is only six weeks, it only goes into the middle of november. what we should be saying is oh, you can have your sequester for six weeks. in the meantime, you have to reopen the government. and you have to raise the debt ceiling with no limits without putting all of these ridiculous extraneous issues on the debt ceiling. for six weeks, if we can come up with what our appropriators really call a grand bargain, which is a budget for 2014, that would make a lot of ...

A six-extension, but im not going to hold my nose and vote for anything explore than that. >> were not sure that republicans and john boehner are open to pursuing some kind of grand bargain, again, you look at the history of john boehner and the republicans on the lines they have drawn in this, which is basically absolutely no new revenue. do you think of those talks reopened again in any way, do you think anything is going to be different in terms of the republican bottom line which is absolute...

Took over the house, in the summer of 2011 they forced what was an unprecedented fight over the debt limit, which resulted in significant spending cuts. the republicans wanted more than that. a provision of the deal is spending would be slashed even further if the bipartisan budget was not passed in a year and a half. of course the deadline for the comprehensive bipartisan bill came and went in the spring, and so forgive me, we have what is known as the sequester. so the deep cuts that everybody...

Just take the so-called clean cr. but it is not clean at all. because it does have the sequester in it. >> but you -- it seems like you have ended up in a situation, i dont know if this is by grand design on their part or just a happy coincidence for them. but you ended up in a place where exactly what you described is happening, the democrats are in a place of, well, fine, have your sequester, we just dont want a debt default, should democrats have been applying pressure the other way so that t...