If you can also find us online. Here is the headline in the New York Times. The pew center has a new study out called the impact on the fiscal cliff on states. Here is what it says. We would do more into these and how they will specifically affect states on an individual basis. There is a question on whether the fiscal cliff would hurt. It says our question for you this morning is whether the states should have a stake of in negotiations. Looking more in the story the New York Times. It says some of the benefits states could receive, nobody is retained that president obama and republicans in congress will fail to reach an accord because they feel they fear that the resulting combination of spending cuts and tax increases could prompt another recession, which their states can ill afford. Lets go to houston, texas and hear from barry. Caller high. Host am i should sit seven role in the negotiations . We are hearing about how republicans and president obama are negotiating. Caller i think the democrats should have some form of a democratic rip rip at the table. I believe everybody should be involved. It has gone on too far like this without points being made. Our domestic investment needs to be saved. They need to cut the military spending down and preserve the safety nets. Raise the taxes up and lets be done with it. I do not understand what the problem is. Host here is a comment coming from facebook. You can join the conversation on facebook by looking for cspan and weighing in there. Lets go to the next call, jason from new jersey on the independent line. Caller good morning. Thank you for cspan. I think it is is important to talk about states rights, which are written in the constitution and our viable under the fact all states have their choice to put their own business first. It is a crucial part of the democracy. The federal government can get involved when they are needed to, but for the most part our country functions with state rights. I think we need to get back to that. Especially with issues of budgets. Thank you for cspan. Host thank you for that call. You can call us and give your input. I will give you the numbers again. They are different this morning. Looking more at what some of the fiscal cliff cuts, the sequestration would mean for the states. The New York Times says looking more and to the story. It says jodi joins us from missouri. An independent caller. Caller the people who are in this state should have a say so for the government, also. Host we miss the first part of your call. How should it be done . Caller i think the state should poll the people and the people should have an influence on the state. The people who run the state that keep the states going. I think like the electorial vote, i do not think that should be it. I think it should be the people. I think the people should tell they should be the influence on the state within the fiscal cliff. I think they should, you know, be the say so of the state. Host lets go to are a from atlanta, georgia on the democrat line. Caller i think we need to but congress had all this business. I think it is very important that they do. That is what they are elected for. I just do not think the states would benefit from having grand elections, more spending, more commercials and when the money needs to go directly to the people. We also need to be wary of cutting spending on the platform, cuts in programs of obamas platform. Host do you think the states should use their line of communication of congress or the white house . Caller i think we need to trust the congress and believe that we have elected them to do the states business and trust them to do it. Host lets go to mike. Caller i think the states already have several budgets to their elected officials. If the governor wants to have a say on the budget, get a hold of their elected officials, their congressman, bring them to the Governors Office and laid the lot down to them on what the what the congressman to go back and portray in washington. Host lets hear what marie has to say on the independent line. Caller i think only the blue states should have a say because the blue states contribute overwhelmingly more money to the federal government. The red states tend to be more petty minded and selfish, anyway. The blue states give them money. Let them do with their little money they get. I will lead the blue states all of the blue states need to participate. Host how did you decide that . Did you base that on who their governor is are there legislature . Caller look at the map. I see where the red states are and the blue states are. The blue states are where your better educated higher income people live who i think are a little more egalitarian. I see the old south, and as i call it, the new south which are the states mostly midwestern up to the North Central canadian border. The states that have large states with small populations that tend to be spoiled and selfish minded. They get a lot of money from the federal government, and they do not appreciate what they get. Host we will take a look at what stage get from the federal government in just a little while. First, newsmakers, which will be on at 10 00 this morning, has a conversation with mary kay henry, who was a labor leader who went to the white house to meet with president obama to talk about what is to come in the weeks ahead and the months ahead. Lets take a look at one excerpt from the interview. This is talking about these questions of the fiscal cliff. [video clip] what about speaker John Boehners concept of a bridge deal, which could be a revenue package and tax reform and the new year that does bring in new revenue . I think it is a wonderful idea to have tax reform in the new year. I think john boehner keeps trying to soft and what the American People said on november 6. That is why i am so adamant against rejecting it. We need to use this moment to answer the call of the American People, which they said loud and clear on november 6. What do they plan to do to help the president . How much money do you plan to spend . We have joined with other organizations, labor and community, which started on november 8 with 44 actions a run the country. We were doing visits on the hill together. We just went up on the air with paid media to do education a run the the id with key states and we are bringing local leaders together to Lobby Congress the week after thanksgiving. Then we will do another day of action on december 10. We have additional actions planned in the week of the 10th and the 17th. We will make a decision about what to do and where to do it based on what we hear from congress the following week of thanksgiving. We are putting a lot of paid resource. We have kept our members off the job to continue to do education of their family, friends, and coworkers and in key districts so it is a second campaign. The president said that to us. There was a campaign to get reelected, and there must be a campaign to get the first key part of the agenda. Host you can see that at 10 00 this morning. At a certain ratio read jogged that excerpt showed her talking about the fiscal cliff and john boehner. We are asking you if states should have a say while they negotiated the fiscal clef. About tax cuts, spending, and the budget. Lets hear from leah in garland, texas. Caller thank you for cspan. I do not think the states should have a right because it is complicated enough to deal with congress. I certainly hope we will pay attention. Another thing, too, is that all of the seven states that have not set up their exchange for health care, i think obama should put them all on medicare. That way the people will not suffer. That is my opinion. Let congress handle it. Obamacare should not be on the table. I have no problem with us going over the fiscal clef. Host david from union city. Good morning. Are you with us . Ok. Dave is turning into the tv rather than the phone call. We will look at the peace study. Pew study. Lets go to marie in alabama, a a democrat. Good morning. Caller good morning. Can you hear me . I think that the states are already represented through their congresspersons. We do not need to have double representation. Host ok. Lets go to springfield, georgia on the independent line. Caller good morning. My comment is there are a number of states that are not paying enough to the federal government. They get a lot more money back. To have these states have more input into the crisis, i think it would be a major mistake. The election has been decided already. Obama 1. His referendum should be, it just that, what ever he wants. The states are complaining. Theyre not paying enough to the federal government. You have a lot of other states that are more liberal that are supporting people. Host agusta, georgia. Caller actually, the people have spoken. They have spoken because they reelected president obama. The bottom line is this. If only the republicans can get over losing, that we do not have to have this problem. We can pass this. We will not have to suffer for the fiscal cliff if only they realized that president obama has won, he cannot run again. Why do they not just sit down together and let this happen . That is the bottom line. They are sore losers. That is the bottom line. I t was so very much. Host one of our callers has called in and talked about states and how it would be specifically affected. This study from pew points out here are states that would be effective because of total federal spending next to them on procurements salaries and wages as a percentage of their state gdp. They include maryland, virginia, d. C. Hawaii, alaska, new mexico, and kentucky. Did you see those that would be less effected which are michigan, oregon, minnesota, and delaware. It could reduce the state personal income and the sales tax revenues and increased demand for statefunded income support programs. The effects on states would vary depending on how much they benefit from that money. Total federal spending on procurement salaries and wages equal 20 of the combined gdp of the washington, d. C. Area, maryland, and virginia. Defense cuts defense is the largest area of total federal spending when it comes to procurement salaries and wages and was more than 3. 5 of the total gdp of the states. Mark is the next caller from maryland. Caller hello, how are you doing . I just wanted to make a statement. You cannot satisfy these people. People are not going to ever be satisfied. They are of the situation of who obama is and what he is representing and so forth. You are going to have republicans, youre going to have democrats and independents everybody is against this man. Host what do you think about the role states should play . Should they have a say as congress and the white house talk about the fiscal cliff . Caller the whole thing about the matter is, the states have their own problems. They need to handle their own problems. Do you know what i am saying . They need to let the president he is the president of the United States of america. He needs to get over saying he is not this and he is not that. Host it is also the congress that has an influence a role in this. Should the states trust congress to strike the deal with the president . Caller they need to get their butts out of their tails host lets move onto michael on twitter. Rick joins us from pittsburgh, a missouri and the democrats line. Caller hello. It is vick. Good morning. It has been awhile since i talked to cspan. My concern is this. I voted for obama two times. I am a white man, 58 years old. I have been this is the bottom line. There is racism still underlying current. They need to get over the problem and accept the fact that the white man has lost and it is now a totally multiracial nation. Host what does that have to do with the fiscal cliff and states roles . Caller a lot of the people being affected, especially in the happen to be multiracial and white. The few at the top and i know them at the top the wealthy man has plenty to have it. He has plenty to share. He has plenty to give it. He can spend that much money to buy a congressman or whatever. He could be able to fork over some dollars. I am also talking about corporations. It should be able to fork over dollars to pay for defense. They use defense. They are the ones that privatize defense and make the most money, cut the most deals with the state department. I believe that they need to bring our boys back. They need to get rid of privatization privatization in the military. Make all the federal government employees, not 70 of the intelligence being run before obama was even a president , 70 was run by privatized privatization. Host we will leave it there and go to a tweet. Bill shared his comments by writing cspanwj in his tweet. Here are some Facebook Comments coming in. Our next caller is karen from newport news, virginia at the republican line. Caller good morning to you. The states need to have an opinion because they are going to cripple in the areas that depend heavily on the government. Those people a denture those areas that are populated generate a lot of money. Theyre not just going to cripple the military or the government. Theyre going to cripple the people working around the revenue depending on the income they bring in. States have to have a here. Say a here say. Host a could be affected because of the defense spending and employs that live a center of the virginia area. Does this affect you personally . Caller it affects everybody personally. They need to get educated on how much income when navy ship actually brings into a community. Just one chip. Host thank you. Lets go to brian in illinois on the democrats line. Caller good morning. There are two things i want to say. Being in illinois, there is no way i want my state having any input on the federal budget or the fiscal cliff. Illinois is ranked 51, and this has been a Democratic State for 34 years. We are broke over here. I also disagree with the Union President leader comments. President obama got less of votes this time than four years ago. He won the Electorial College in a landslide, but the actual vote count was less than 1 million. I do not think they can come out with a hammer and hammer through anything people want. I think this is going to take a definite compromise on both sides. We cannot cut drastically. There will have to be cut. It will have to be tax increases. The tax increases are going to be across the board. Thank you. Host do you think congress and the white house will be able to come to some terms before we hit the end of the year . Caller on one side, there has been a strategy from the white house to vilify congress. It includes not just the republicans. There has been no budget proposed for three years. Let the president come up with an idea and get his people in congress to sway the other side. I have not heard an idea yet. What they really wanted to do was promote this we have to tax the rich more. I believe that. You cannot tax enough of one part of the population. Everybody is going to have to put more money on the table. That is just a fact. Host this is what jan tweets in. Our next caller joins us from tuscaloosa, alabama on the democrats line. Caller i hope they do not give the states any input, especially talking about some of the southern states. Anything that the government proposed that would give africanamericans a level playing field, Jeff Sessions will vote against it. They have elected some of the most hated people in the congress and the senate for alabama. They do not want the African American they do not care what happens, they do not what the africanamerican to have a fair break. Whatever evidence whatever the state has left over, that would be for the progressive white people. There are progressive people in alabama, but they cannot get elected. Seven congressional districts, she has to act for the African Americans all over the state of alabama. Host we are talking about whether you think the states should have a seat at the table. The cuts will take place unless they act. Do you think states should have a role . Lets go on to jim. Caller good morning. I would take the position that the states are essential to participate in this discussion as much as they are affected by what happens at the federal level. I think we can see that the federal level, they are incapable of doing it. The states need to be sitting at the table and the forceful. They need to set an example for washington to get this done. Three years, i mean, three years ago, the budget that is a joke. States are used to doing this and working this out. They have the track record to show it. Obama needs some help to get it done. His people in congress are as incapable as he is. Host another comment coming to us from twitter. We are taking a look at the sunday talk shows happening this morning. We can look at a line up of the guests on fox news sunday. Senator john mccain from arizona. State of the Union Features senator kyl from arizona, Kay Bailey Hutchinson from texas, and Joseph Lieberman of connecticut. Also, congressman barney frank from massachusetts. As we mentioned on newsmakers, mary kay henry. On abc this week, Richard Durbin of illinois, Lindsey Gramm of the South Carolina. We will see adam smith from washington and a ban affleck who directed argo. On me to the press, carl levin, peter king, and gregory meeks. We will also see the chairman and chief executive of honeywell international. Our next call joining us on the independent line. We have pat from tennessee. Caller you made the statement a few minutes ago, exactly my thought. When you have senators and representatives of their in congress, then they are representing the states. That is how the states have a say in the budget talks. I noticed a while back they talked about reducing your marks. That is when they put things in that they want to add to the budget, things that the one for the states. That is how they are represented already. Thank you. Host thank you. What you were quoting was eight tweet that came in that said states already have a say by sending members to the house and senate. Democrats line. Caller i think today pose the question is interesting. This was one of the first questions addressed by congress back in the summer of 1787 at the constitutional convention. The convention had only originally begun to address some issues of a need to strengthen the articles of the convention. In those days the contest between virginia and maryland about who had control over the potomac river. What