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Modest, it is a step in the right direction. it is bricking back some normalcy. cutting back $23 million from the federal deficit and there is a $17 trillion national debt. but lets bring back our panel. what we know so far of the details, your thoughts. >> well so far, $23 billion is a rounding error on the debt, the the economy. it is trivia. but what is not trivial is not the politics. it just couldnt be that the anti-establishment house may rally around this partly because paul ryan has such...

Website today, this evening and we intend to bring it to the house floor later on this week. i have every reason to expect great support from our caucus because we are keeping our principals. the key is here nobody had to sacrifice their core principles. our principles are dont raise taxes an reduce the deficit. and we have concerned members about defense. the next hit from the sequester would hit solely on the military, starting in january. a lot of our members were concerned about that. so wha...

>> smooth. >> she said she never really lectured the pilots. she was more likely to be talking to the guy in the back seat, she had to know his weapons, she was the science, the math, the defense of what was happening in the planes. >> blah, blah, blah. but does she say i never had anything happen like what happened in the movie. >> thats all hollywood. >> she was a straight arrow, a genuine straight shooter. >> most recently she made news, believe it or not, shes against the sequester. she was ...

Ptsd. >> there was no question after we started the program and he received his service dog. he came back to me. the light came on. my son came home. >> during the recent government shutdown, news reports about the families denied death benefits brought the anxiety rushing back. >> these guys gave their lives for our country. for a second there, i felt alone. then i looked at willco and everything was all right. my dog. i was not alone. >> in two 1/2 year, more than 90 vets were helped. the wait...

Since 2008. cash registers may be quieter because of whats going on in the capital. >> one the government shutdown, the sequester, three the concern of higher medical costs and the part on some americans for the affordable health care act. the combination of three could cut consumer spending as much as 1% or 1 point. >> most shoppers we spoke to said theyll spend about as much this year as last year. theyre going to be more careful before checking out. >> our plan changed for health care prescri...

Congressman chris van hollen of maryland, ranking member of the house budget committee. good afternoon, sir. >> good afternoon, martin. >> the budget process that youve been arguing for for several months came to a crashing halt even as it started with congressman paul ryan saying he will not budge on tax cuts, and yet fitch last month said the reason it may downgrade the u.s. is because people wont budge on the budget process. so how do you negotiate with a man who states his uncompromising pos...

On the sequester, were actually succeeding as a movement in reducing government spending on the domestic side pretty significantly. but theres no acknowledgment of that by some folks in the washington establishment. i think we should have been talking more about that. its a real accomplishment by our party to try to reduce spending in that way and what we should do is now move to the entitlement side to start to work on that side as well. then we can really look towards tax reform and other thin...

It really remains to be seen whether this will happen, but certainly hes feeding red meat to the base and thats really what counts in those iowa caucuses. >> eleanor, i want to go through the budget with you. on wednesday the house and senate budget negotiators are going to try to begin hammering out some sort of deal. one key element, the sequester. "the new york times" is saying, quote, while the most dire predictions may not have materialized in 2013, the tricks have many agencies employed, d...

They would have won. >> i want more ted cruzs elected. >> yes. >> i want this conservative solution caucus formed. >> i guess what im wondering, rebecca is, susie makes a good point. you look at the sequester, you look at john mccain, lempbd say graham, these guys. i think his frustration with ted cruz stems from the part that he does not want it hurting the department of defense. ted cruz is one of the reasons it is, hes upset by that. i remember the experience of watching these republicans gai...

>> the sequester has accomplished what washington has not done since the korean war, cut the growth of spending. >> its the only thing thats prevented the government from growing larger the last two years. the deficit is lower for the second consecutive year. sequestration is not the best way to cut spending but right now, its the only way that spending is being cut. >> now in the present rounds of budget cuts, the g.o.p. may try to use the sequester as a bargaining tip for mainly entitlements. ...