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So my question to you is about the internal philosophy of your caucus, specifically a minority within your caucus, the freedom caucus that every time they indicate they might vote against this bill, you go back in to try to mallive them and its always with a more draconian aspect of the bill. lets hurt more of the poor and lets hurt more of the elderly and hurt more of the people who live in central pennsylvania. what is up with that? >> well, it seems that the movement at the moment is try to o...

Michigan is such an abysmal failure. >> very quickly before i let you get out of here. one thing, one area with which you agree with betsy davos, one thing, just one. >> privatizing special education, privatizing title one, those are the signature programs shell be in charge of. shes privatized everything she could get her hands on. what about our special ed. kids? they need those resources, and we believe that betsy davos should not be our secretary of education. >> lily -- >> the senators shou...

>> the government did have an interest. >> i have to jump in. >> interest in regulating the amount of money that flowed into our political elections. >> the government still has that compelling interest to protect our democracy from corruption. to answer rons point, it is completely inappropriate and this is a point thats been made strenuously by first amendment scholars, title one article the first amendment does not protect the right to buy the government but from the former dean of the chicag...

Influence labor productivity indirectly by making it easier for some employees to obtain health insurance outside the workplace and thereby prompting those workers to take jobs that better match their skills, regardless of whether those jobs offered employment will have based insurance." wont these new workers now be free to be productive in some other place of the economy? and is it a bad thing to not be attached to your job for insurance purposes only? >> craig, i am delighted to hear you supp...

Know all of them. we can really do something pretty special. >> chuck hagel the new defense secretary talking about the possibilities and the challenges and he may have a big one ahead assuming the sequester goes into effect tomorrow. nobody will get hit harder than defense but a growing number of women as well are very concerned about how they would be impacted by those across-the-board cuts and they have good reason. head start, title one, womens domestic violence programs, health programs, al...

In fields like national security, education or clean energy are likely to be laid off. >> i dont like the sequester, and i think that it is taking a meat aex to the government a meat ax to many of the programs and it will weaken our national defense. >> there yu go. nobody likes it. okay. but the ut cuts amts to $85 million spread out over seven months from the beginning of march to september 30th, the end of the fiscal year of 2013, and according to the white house it would take a 13% out of de...

Looking at $644 million in cuts and education, title one, students who need support, learning disabilities and physical disabilities, those are cut. that goes to the state. its an investment in the economic future of the state. the one question i have for you governor, there was a new york times piece that was quite informative about the amount of tax give aways to corporations, right? >> right. its not about raising taxes, its what we allow as give aways. $80 million a year that states are givi...

>> again, chris, i reject the premise that we should start from the focus of cuts when the real priority for young people is jobs and its making college more affordable. >> okay. were talking about debt reduction and the presidents problem of avoiding the fiscal cliff, and i got to get back to the mayor. i want to go to ways we can actually do this. i know everybody has to give something. im wondering what people are willing to give. mayor, what are the areas that affect the big cities? what the...

Were trying to get rid of. >> again, chris, i reject the premise that we should start from the focus of cuts when the real priority for young people is jobs and its making college more affordable. >> okay. were talking about debt reduction and the presidents problem of avoiding the fiscal cliff, and i got to get back to the mayor. i want to go to ways we can actually do this. i know everybody has to give something. im wondering what people are willing to give. mayor, what are the areas that affe...

>> okay. were talking about debt reduction and the presidents problem of avoiding the fiscal cliff and i got to get back to the mayor. i want to go to ways we can actually do this. i know everybody has to give something. im wondering what people are willing to give. mayor, what are the areas that affect the big cities? >> the big cities are affected by housing, community development investments, education investments, which i might add have already taken cuts. this is whats important is that thi...