Which you are basically not cutting you may be cutting rowth rate but if you project to do 10 and you only do it five, and is a 5 rate. We have to get back to the honest math that Business Owners across the country have to do when they balance the budget and the business. We have to take the same approach. Host debbie from ohio, independent line. Caller good morning, cspan. I cannot believe that president obama is getting away with in our country. Everybody needs to demand his impeachment. We cannot keep up with the scandals, and who knows what is coming down the road next . He is like a whirlwind the tasmanian devil. He needs to be impeached, period. It doesnt matter if he is black, white, purple, republican, democrat. What he is doing is illegally he is destroying our country. Agree inll, i would the sense that i disagree greatly with this president. In the been talking house that you cannot simply run the country by executive order, of cannot ignore the letter the law. This goes back to a concern and something ive talked about a 1 congress. Cle at that point you can use the budget to do with the executive branch. Tose are areas we have continue to look at. I agree that we need to continue to have the programs and oversight in place to keep the executive and check. Host washington, d. C. David, hello. Caller thank you, congressman, for your service. Youre not the first Government Official to say that there is government waste. We are all in kind of agreement on that fact. What are you recommending as a reproach that will be different up get a different result in terms of consolidating some of these agencies . I will take my call offline. Guest david, i appreciate that. Up until this point we are looking at it from the preparations and oversight process. Tiger, weve not had a good handle frankly, we have not had a good handle on it. What is different about this is the panel that would be put together and committee is made up of republicans and democrats, h a look at taking each it taking the appropriation smashers not as a whole but in parts. And then bringing those to the House Committee and if it doesnt act, straight to the house floor, and 10 hours of debate. Were not going anywhere and trying to offer amendments you offer it up or down. If we found 100 billion in we may get that much, whatever it may be, and then you come to the floor and as a representative of your district in this country you have to say or ie with this cut dont agree with this cut. Peopleu go back to the of your district and say that this 50 billion needs to stay in the budget and here is why. On a different path from saying lets take it out of the appropriations process, but it gives us another tool and takes away excuses. The committee would be members of congress or independent . Guest independent. You would have of those appointed by the president and the leadership in the senate and house. Host oxford, pennsylvania. Good morning to bob. Caller good morning, cspan. He is talking about cutting the budget with no amendments or anything. I guess every program has its faults and its waste, but amendments, i would think, would te the thing to cut the fat ou but leave the good thing in any program. V. A. , anybodythe who is still with that, it takes 2 to 3 years once you apply come even if they send you to the Social Security and say you cannot work by the time you hire someone who represents you it is 23 years, and people die or commit suicide in that time and families suffer in that time. Ne more thing about the trade i am sure that some of those guys we traded for are not good characters, but if that was your son came home or any american son that came home, i would love to hear what you would say about it then. Thank you so much, and god bless america. Guest bob, i appreciate that. I will start with your last comment first. Family is pleased that he is coming home . Im sure that they are. Andin a wartime environment a role that is a hostile place, you have to look out for the whole as well, and this sets a for otherrecedent sons and daughters who are in harms way. This is where the administration lacks foresight. I think, fica, going against the principle that we have stood by for many, many years, and looking forward to that. In regards to the amendment process, i think it basically takes it look at the good. I am not a republican who will sit here and tell you that government needs to go away or be paired down to nothing. Im a believer in the constitutional form of government that we have, but it needs to be efficient. She talks about the backlog. One of the most depressing things in my office is when i talk to kids workers who handle a majority of their cases Veterans Administration cases and Social Security cases. When our constituents have to call my office so that they can get an appointment or get the things that are promised to them, that is a problem. That is a concern for many in the sense that when you go back they recordkeeper, the folks working the clinics and hospitals are good nurses and doctors who are trying to do the best, but the admin assertion of the v. A. Has let them down and structurally we have got to change this. From anas one speaking iraq war perspective, i have talked about this before in the sense that we are in a position now where the worst is yet to come. If we dont structurally fixed this now, five or 10 years from now, they will be utilizing the system more and more. We are broke now. Ndaiding this is not what to do. Host any look at the oversight structure on this . Guest yes, chairman miller has done great work on this. Bringing out the real inefficiencies that are there. We should not allow our government to, especially dealing with those who serve our country and fulfill their commitment it is time for the government to step up and fulfill theirs. Sending them to an inefficient system where they have to call their congressmen to get help to me shows a tremendous brick down in the system that should work. Host senator sanders and senator mccain on the senate side have come up with a plan looking at this issue. What do you think of that plan and would you support it . Guest without going into specifics of their plan, looking at Structural Integrity anything that we look at now, from holding accountability of the ministration of the v. A. Also things that we have got to do. Structural change has to take place. Those steps like that are the discussions we need to be having. And we have those discussions we will take care of it in the longterm. Host structural changes meaning . Guest updating appointment systems, systems in which appointments and referrals and Service Members that help. Get help. I have been a cosponsor of the legislation that says you can actually go if you are too far away or they cant get you within a certain amount of time, you can go to a private doctor. Withve got to come up models that fit the system and the problems in the system. The problem is that many times we look at the system and say to just fix it as it is. We have got a think outside the box. What government many times does not do is think outside the box. We think of it in the terms it has always been. It is part of who they are cutting but also the problem in the Veterans Administration. We think about it as it has been. Lets think about it in terms of what it could be. That is the kind of thinking that government needs to have, instead of sibley going by wrote progression from problem to problem to problem. Lets start doing the role of congress, oversight and looking at programs host does any of that involve more money, then . Guest at this point in time you cant continued to feed there may be changes to prioritize i am forgetting our budget i am for getting our budget in order so that we can prioritize. But as long as we have that and debt and deficit, we have problem prioritizing to get things done. It was something we are spending money on posted that is where we have the issue and discussion on money. Distantly spend more money is a mistake. Two sibley spend more money is a mistake. Host good morning. Republican line. Caller thank you for having me under program this morning. I wanted to touch base on cutting wasteful programs and cutting spending. The other thing we should do is bring jobs back to this country. Our jobs report is up but unemployment is still at the same level. We wont touch base on unemployment extensions, funding these programs that are needed socially. It also but also, on top of dontke bva scandal, i understand why anybody needs to wait 90 days to see a doctor. Why cant we just see a regular doctor in the network . If i am sick and i want to see a doctor, i go out and i see a doctor. I dont understand why we need to waste tons of money for this when it is just common sense. If they cant get into a va hospital, send them to a regular hospital. Dont make him wait 90 days, when it comes out to veterans affairs. When it comes to spending, i believe in cutting wasteful spending but i also believe in bringing in jobs like the Keystone Pipeline, boosting our economy, letting our country h guest i agree with the caller a great deal. Lets think outside the box, thats get our veterans help. Theerms of jobs growth, house has passed keystone, we work on energy policy, reforming our job training structure program. These are the kinds of things that where we pass jobs government needs to promote and have the access that allows the market and the jobs to be created. When government interferes with that, we have problems. The other things that can create jobs and infrastructure and make the private sector confident in where we are headed. When we talk about the issue of and unemployment being about the same come it is because a lot of folks have just dropped out of the workplace. Host what about education . The president announced perspectives when it comes to college loans. What do you think . Guest again, it is a situation where you have the president looking at it and saying lets help out those who are underwater. It is a politically popular move to do that. Tentatively the Economic Growth tenets tonight Economic Growth . Can it simulate Economic Growth . Possibly. It comes down to this government and Government Spending and the debt and deficit issues have got to be addressed. We can bandaid, talk about capping interest 10 of student income and the scans of things in which help in the short term. But longterm we have got to make changes to make sure our government is efficient as possible and we cut out the waste and do so in a way that will stimulate our economy. One of our callers said that when we get our country in order to this will see that. Others will see that. Host massachusetts, independent line. Caller good morning. Representative, you are spouting misinformation as well. The taliban is not a terrorist organization. It is al qaeda. Also, do you remember in the 1980s with the contra and ollie north and reagan trading guns to the rebels . Those things should be said, too. You shouldnt just spout out that this is unprecedented that the president did with this soldier. Republican time a president goes to war, democratic president has to clean yourself up and then you want to blame him for how he is handling yall mess up. The country has been hurting ever since. You republicans always are trying to cut stuff and denied the people what is right for them, but you give big businesses like the banks their bailouts, oil company get their bailouts thanks,ax, caller. Guest i think we have a philosophical disagreement, but this is a policy when we first started where this has been violated and it was included and and it is not good now and it does not matter who does it. What went on just now is not right, not something we need to be doing, because in my mind and many others mind i go back to those like sam johnson. A man who suffered and you can see it in his body and face who suffered for his country, who served his country, said this is not right. This is a man who was a pow, not somebody like me who was not a pow. This is a man who is there who would have loved to have come home but he understood the process and the principal and it shouldnt be violated and this is just wrong. Host a viewer from texas on our email guest again, in the interest of what is inspected here, perspective here, we are looking at the total budget process. Most of my democratic friends simply go to say that you are going to cut social programs. This is a total look at the budget as a whole. I said every appropriations bill, not just a single operations bill. When you start to understand that everything can be looked at not everything will be cut, not everything will be changed, not everything will be consolidated. But that is the role of government. That is the role of congress to be doing. We cannot simply sit up here and continue to do things the way they have been done. I would rather see a government that has a fiscal house in order , its deficit and debt paid down, then we can make priority. Hoices as a nation when we have 82 of the budget roughly, we have no real control over. That we have no real control over, that is a problem. I asked that they look at their own household budget. Home, itat you bring is got to come from one place. They say that is not right. That is what is happening in government. We are bringing it down to saying lets look at everything. Host because of sequestration got put into place, the approach that paul ryan took. Where do you go from there . Guest what do you mean, where do you go from there . Host as far as cost to the budget guest many times we say lets just cut x amount from the top. That is not a good approach either. Simply say that because of a process that is not working, especially over the , that is not a good way to make decisions. When they make crisis decisions they typically make the best decision they can at that point but then they look back and say here was another option. Lets go to regular order and say that stick as best we can you will never take politics out of everything lets look at ineffective and wasteful spending, and that as to what the budgetary process is already. Oing it is not an easy choice for president s on the hill but it is something for representatives on the open it is something that is got to be done. Host regina from connecticut, democrats line. Caller thank you for taking my call. Talking about a statement made earlier in his intro. He said we dont negotiate with terrorists. We are not fighting another country, we are fighting terrorists. Who do you negotiate with . I would like him to answer that question for me. Guest we are not going to negotiate with the ones we just give prisoners a way to. However you want to classify that or put it in perspective, the People Holding the hostage are the people we negotiated , basically, we gave people in return for that. I apologize, maybe i didnt understand your question completely host regina, you still there . Caller im still here. My question is, we are not fighting a country. We are fighting terrorists. They captured a soldier however it happened, i dont know. But i want to know, if we dont negotiate with the terrorists, how will we get our people back if theyre captured . Time, at this point in you bring up a great point, but at this point, as ive have said before, even in my introduction, the people we negotiate with our the folks who were holding the hostage at the time. You are very right and this is basically a different kind of warfare. Think makes it even more to a problematic situation where we have individuals or groups or splinter groups that may capture or hold an American Military or nonmilitary. What line do we draw . This is a problem we have in our country, our world right now. Who do we negotiate with . We negotiate with the ones who are holding them, and that sets a very dangerous precedent going forward. Host is there a better way to get him back . Guest at this point, i am not sure. The question what was said even earlier by the representative we got something for that. Well, what did we get . Our sergeant back and that is a good thing in the sense that he is coming home and no longer captured. But what does it entail for later on . What other groups are saying well, lets get some more out of guantanamo, lets get some more out of another country. Why concern is that in the specific timeframe with this specific individual who they are saying was a lifethreatening condition, is that the standard we now use . Capturedor someone is and in lifethreatening conditions, we negotiate with them . Is that the standard we set . If it is, that sets an interesting agenda for those who may want to take the military prison hostage. Military prison hostage. Host representative doug collins, republican from georgia. Neck stop his next up is callie, republican from texas. Caller i want to rebut what one of the people said about the wrongicans doing all the and bailing out companies and stuff. That was the democrats and the president that did this. Thed to know government is not listening to the people. How do the people go about teaching the president ourselves because nobody else is listening to us . Kelly tothink frustration out there in general. Unwieldiness its and size of programs and inability to control his budget, control what it does, has left a situation where people are frustrated, because it is so far from the way as i said before , moms and dads who get up every morning, who only want the best for themselves, their families, that is the message that washington needs to be sending, that we are hearing from you, we understand that you are frustrated and were are doing something about that to work together. If we cant come together on things as simple as duplicate of them ineffective programs, where duplicative, ineffective programs, where are we . What are we doing so that we can speak to a country that is in desperate need of leadership . Host a viewer from twitter asks guest a lot of them are already online. A lot of these programs have been highlighted. Things the kinds of when i first came to congress, being a freshman, i went to oversight hearings and we would hear about duplicative i will go straight to one that is uniform spending in the military. Each branch designing their own acus. The millions of dollars that are taken for a specific uniform especially some, if you end up in the end, they look similar. Why are we spending hundreds of millions of dollars to do that . That is something that could be consolidated and it is just not. When people call in and sadly say that this is something that mean republicans want to cut, we need to look at it as a whole. We have to have a conversation that says we know we are out of control, we know that the bigbudget needs to be reined in, and when you get your house in order, they can have confidence in what the government is su