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CSPAN Washington Journal October 18, 2013

You can also contact us via social media. You can vote on a pole on poll oncspan a facebook. Com cspan. Heres the front page of the New York Times closed quote this morning of the New York Times this morning ofg us on the phone is cq roll call. What happened yesterday . What happened was they had breakfast along with the ranking members of the house and Senate Budget committees and basically just had in informal discussion. Then they had a short meeting really pattys murray and patty murray said they were hopeful that they can reach some kind of agreement but they did not get into any specifics. Did any other Committee Members meet besides the four of them . Guest no it wasnt the four of them. Oft looking at the budget the new Conference Committee, 12 democratic senators, nine republican senators, for Republican House members, three Democratic House members, it seems awfully waited on the side of the senate. Is that correct . It is andt is the way it seems kind of strange. The Conference Committee ultimately, a majority of senators and am majority of representatives would have to agree on any kind of solution. It is waited in that sense. The Senate Budget committee is much smaller than the house Budget Committee. Wholennot appoint the house Budget Committee to the conference. Think there are 22 senators on the conference. , even thoughical there are far fewer representatives. Washington has seen this type of committee before, looking at grand bargains. What is the Optimism Level . As you said earlier, everybody is pretty skeptical even though patty and paul ryan put an optimistic face on it. The sequester is of concern to both republicans and democrats. I think that will probably be the initial focus of this Conference Committee, to see if they can come up with some kind of partial replacement for the sequester for the defense spending cuts and domestic spending cuts. I also might be able to reach an agreement on a spending level that is different than just continuing with the current Discretionary Spending level. What happens if no agreement is reached by this committee by september id sambar . By the sambar . By december . They still have a month to try to come up with some kind of agreement. Krawzak. T is paul a little bit more from the New York Times what are your priorities when it comes to this budget agreement . He is a republican steve is a republican in new jersey. I had a question about the content of the national that national debt. I was wondering if the producers could bring on the gal or the gao or theasury cbo or treasury. Which parts arent funded and unpaid for, and why . I was wondering maybe you could do a segment on that. Host this is olivia in birmingham, alabama. Caller i trust patty murray. I am a little skeptical of paul ryan. Ofo not want to be skeptical him because we need to do something about the debt. We need to do something about Social Security and medicare. I am a senior, i am receiving my benefits. I am thinking longterm. My nieces, my nephews, and a lot of young people in america i dont want him to listen to the Tea Party Wing of his party. He really needs to get in there and he needsrray to really really be on the same page. We are sick and tired of this. We need to do something about the debt. I am a democratic person. We need to do something about the debt. We need to do something about Social Security and medicare. We dont want them going in there with a meat cleaver. We want real substantial talks going on. In america and tired of what is going on with the tea party. You wait on just a minute on the line . I want you to get a republican on the line and respond to what jim has to say. I did not expect be part of a party line. I am pretty much done with the republicans after this weekend. I think Speaker Boehner should be forced to resign because he let the bill go out with let the bill go through without a majority of republican support. In delaware things are getting worse and worse. Taxpaying citizens are now living in the cars because there is no economic there is no economic opportunity. We have throwing money away on the fiscal plan. We have lost most of our major industry. Rises of electricity keeps going up, wages are going down, taxes are going up, i am working about half of what i used to. The government keeps spending money on these crony capitalism they keep making the dollar go less by less. I think washington has turned into the emerald city, everything goes in and nothing comes back to the people. We dont need the federal government. You go to washington and it is like going to the garden of eden where every business is open. Up in delaware half the businesses are closed. There is no opportunity for young men in that town. Has acted beyond the constitution. All bills should start in the house, the house should have the purse strings. That is why i represent and work with the people right now. I cannot take it anymore. You thinkia what did about what jim from delaware had to say . Caller we live in the greatest country in the world. I would not want to live anywhere else but america. Be dissuaded ever away from america. You can do anything in america. I am an African American woman. We did not have rights years ago. We were enslaved. I dont look back on negative things. Do not ever lose sight of america. This is the greatest country in the world. We can do anything we want. People are not moving forward because some people do not think to move forward. You have to want it in your heart. You can do anything in this country. Dont speak dont be dissuaded like this. Party isty the tea coming around with these negative ideas. They are stopping things from going forward. This is america, dont ever let anyone speak down america. Host jim what is your response . We have created a whole new class of slaves in this country with obamacare, we have created a class of dependency. People have to keep voting for the check as opposed to supporting themselves c. People will be taxed to death were you cannot keep any of your money. There are so many regulations you have to jump through to start a business. This whole shutdown was designed to inflict pain. I have never seen a president who has gone out of his Way Convenience so many people out of his way to inconvenience so many people. I think the tea party is a breath of fresh air because they want to turn things around, they want to get america back to a small federal government where the people prosperity, not just the bureaucrats and government workers. Its like the government against the people. There are no democrats or republicans. It is the government against the people. She probably does not say that because she is getting a check from the government. I am paying the government and not getting anything back for it. It is just insane that people do not see it. Very muchk you both for participating in a conversation here on washington journal. In the Huffington Post this morning any largescale Debt Reduction deal must include increased revenue in exchange for charges to mandatory spending programs. The government funding and debt limit bill signed wednesday night set a december 13 deadline for budget negotiations to report back to congress. If no deal is struck, congress will have until january 15 to approve continued government funding or face a nether shutdown. Harry reids hardline which were offered just hours after wednesday nights eel was signed into law reflect an increased sense among democrats that after a big shutdown victory, they are a Strong Political they are in a Strong Political position heading into the next crucial month of Debt Reduction. The worst of it will be seen in the coming years. That gives democrats more leverage to say no to lopsided offers. I get an extra billion dollars this year as compared to last year. Defense loses 23 billion. I think there should be some people among the republicans in the house and senate who should say we should who say we should take a look at that. Dawn is in kansas, good morning. Comment on the wages of our representatives and senate members. I understand their yearly wage is 174,000 per year. If they take a 50 cut across the board, it will still be overpaid. The taxpayers should tend to the peoples business. It is pretty good when they can pass the bills and give themselves raises and everything like that. There is a lot of money that can go to help the debt and get this thing back on track if they would consider cut in cutting their salaries. Numbers onan see the the screen if you want to dial in and participate. We are going to listen to albert on the republican line in rhode island. I was impressed when you had those two people had a conversation with each other. I will to you what is bothering me. Was passed primarily for the minority population. That was fine. Last 40 years since johnsons war on poverty, 78 of the population were married and having children. They you have 78 of women having kids out of wedlock. This is a statistic. Prisons,ation in our 74 are black, 23 spanish, two percent white. We are spending more money the money is causing costing taxpayers for population. The democrats have urged the minority population. Have hurt the minority population. White, black,are spanish, asian, everybody who pays their taxes. Those are the people who carry the country. There are too few of them. Host john is in atlanta, democrat. Caller good morning. I just hope that when they go to the talks regarding the budget for this country that they approach Everything Everything needs balance. In life. You have to have a balance, you cannot have everything all lopsided. What is balance to . Balance to you . Balance, you know, in investment. We all have a piece of the rock. This country belongs to us. In order toay taxes keep up the infrastructure. In other words, everything should have a balance to it. I believe if we have a balance i think that everybody in this country will benefit. [indiscernible] you for your call. Patty murray spoke to reporters after having breakfast with paul ryan. [video clip] as we a good conversation begin the challenge that has been handed to us in the coming short weeks. We believe there is Common Ground in showing the American People that we can work at congress and make sure our economy is growing and make sure people are back to work and we can do the job we were sent here to to. To do. Morning politico this that was the opening in politico. Linda in illinois. Caller good morning. I have several comments. Government and waste, i am aware there is a lot of waste in government. Have forged for several government agencies. Nobody seems to talk about this. They are not focusing on the young people. These young people that have to work and pay taxes and support Social Security. Seems like theyre focusing on the older population. These people are not going to run the country, the young people are going to. They need to focus on insisting them on assisting them with employment. In washington i am looking at all of these old people, you need to change that. I agree with several of the callers. The middleclass was protesting because they are the ones that are going to pay these taxes. The poor are not going to pay anything. It is the middle class that suffers. There is an author that has written three books that has been going on three books on what has been going on. We have second way politicians in a third way society. People need to stand up and demand a change. We have immigration on the books now. Do withwant to immigration while we have possible food shortages, overcrowding but if you want to get this thing more mixed up we do need to reach out the tosser. Regarding david rogers politico piece next call is on our republican line. Caller inky for taking my call. Thank you for taking my call. A shout out to jim from delaware. People are now aware of the fact that harry reid has been stop and goals from coming to the floor. Has been stopping bills from coming to the floor. The house has come up with many bills, many negotiations, many senateises, and the refuses to pass anything or see anything on the floor. That is what we are going to expect for the new for the next four years. Thank you for taking my call. To ins listen springfield, ohio. What is your opinion . Caller good morning. Guilty,they all look all houses. Obamacare,king about let obamacare go through. We just have to stop fighting. Please stop fighting the president. Thats all i have to say. Arethese other people that coming in and running america in we got only 17 stores. Let obamacare through, what do you think of that . Caller i read the senate version. It is going to destroy our economy. It is already defecting jobs. Barack obama decided to change the definition of fulltime employee from 35 hours per week to 30. Onple are getting cut to 20 229 hours and below. With the house care bill you are going to see increases in of the insurance because fact the mandate in the Health Care Bill are planned for more free services. Private insurance goes up. That is why you are seeing insurance for the pool insurance cost 30,000 per family. It is a 30,000 policy. It is a bad bill and we are going to find that out. People are going to be hurt and destroyed over this one bill. I just hope to god that something comes out of this committee. What is your response . Caller we have been in part time we went to parttime 30 years ago. When the ceos start taking all , people are now making only eight dollars an hour and you want to know why there are food stamps, they are not making it theyre not making money. Everything is going up but paycheck. Host thank you for your time this morning on washington journal. Paul tweets our last two callers focused on the health care issue. Jim demint had an oped this morning in the wall street journal this is chuck in virginia. Good morning. I have a postscript to his diatribe. I would say nonsense. The whole obamacare issue is front and center. That is all they talked about. As soon as they got in office they would repeal obamacare. Get over it. The republicans lost. The majority rule. If obamacare is the train wreck they say it is then let it to wreck. If it does in fact fail it will open up the door for the Republican Party to come back into power. Just let it happen if it is going to wreck. We are running around all over the world acting as the worlds policemen, spending money we do not have. We have two wars. We have all of these resources being squandered. What we need to do is do what the president committed to doing when he ran the first time, provide tax cuts to companies to bring jobs overseas bring jobs back from overseas. Bridges are falling down. That is my spiel. Caller heres politico john is a republican in florida. Good morning. Caller it is like americans are supporting 7 billion people around the world. We are giving china and russia aid. We can cut that a lot. This alien amnesty act there is going to be another 40 or 50 Million People here. This is a terrible thing, like the Obama Health Care act. The democrats were saying that the republican shut the country down. Obama put 23 Million People out of business. I dont know how they should always businesses down in 14 days. You know theyre lying when they open their mouth. [indiscernible] host from wisconsin. What you see is one of the priorities he e caller as one of the priorities . Of the priorities is not taking care of our seniors. News tells us now that Social Security is in entitlement. They dont explain what an entitlement is. Worked for myself General Motors for 31 years. I paid in for Social Security every one of those years. As i got older and learn more about how our government works. Works,our government somehow the right must have voted a law and they stole money out of Social Security funds. Sinnott they are saying we are underfunded. So now they are saying we are underfunded. In gm, their pension fund in billion 2008 was 18. 8 overfunded. Retirees are having to pay insurance when they did not have to pay insurance. Theyey are getting older are relying more on Social Security and pension. The government has taken social the question i have is where is that Social Security now . What to our sensitive student pay into Social Security our representatives due to pay into Social Security . Michael tweets in front page of the Washington Times insight is a chart of some republicans who are facing primaries because inside is a chart of some republicans were facing primaries. Those are some of the republicans facing primaries. Here is an analysis piece he goes on to talk about the partys future william in virginia, thank you for holding. What people dont understand, all of the people in congress should be losing money. They have nothing but money. The people that are really suffering are the people that do not have money. They put god in all of this. They have all the money. Dollar outtake one of all their money to help other people. Do they do it now do they do it e do it . No, they get richer and richer. It all comes down [indiscernible] put god back into the hearts of every human being. This is tony, a republican in texas. I just want to say there is no god here. This has nothing to do with god. Our government is all corrupt. How can you see the american has to abide by this experience but the government does

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