presidential leadership, that's what lamar alexander is calling the cuts. he is live now. senator, i want to ask you, gene sperling said that the president is reaching out to democrats and republicans. what is your sense of what is going on? >> well, he hasn't reached out to me. my sense is -- and mitt romney suggested it -- this is a colossal failure of presidential leadership. this is the president's sequester. in 2011, he made a deal, he wanted so badly to get through the election without a debt ceiling issue, he didn't want to touch the real problem, which is mandatory spending increases and he spent the last year doing nothing and the last month campaigning against his own sequester. that's not the way the president of the united states is supposed to perform. >> my understanding is that you voted for the budget control act, which had the sequester framework built into it --
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