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Indiana. i understand parts of the country have different attitudes about guns. again, i think we've really gotten a twisted view of what the american norm is. if you go back to the 19th century or the earlier part of the 20th century, gun control laws were much stricter, even in free-wheeling -- or places perceived as being free wheeling like texas, colorado, western states. i think that our sense of normal has just moved so far away from what a middle point is that we need to get back there. >> rana, karen, thanks to both of you. >> thank you. >> thank you. also in d.c. right now, the hous...

Problem. i hope that happens when gets back from israel. >> chris: before you deal with the budget you have to pass a continuing resolution before march 27 and going on recess at the end of this week, to keep the government running otherwise it shuts down. the question, senator durbin, is will the senate pass a cr, a continuing resolution that keeps spending at $984 billion which is what the spending level is of the house cr including the sequester cuts? >> chris, when i left, washington, on thursday we had 99 amendments pending to the continuing resolution. the budget for the federal governme...

Problem. i hope that happens when gets back from israel. >> chris: before you deal with the budget you have to pass a continuing resolution before march 27 and going on recess at the end of this week, to keep the government running otherwise it shuts down. the question, senator durbin, is will the senate pass a cr, a continuing resolution that keeps spending at $984 billion which is what the spending level is of the house cr including the sequester cuts? >> chris, when i left, washington, on thursday we had 99 amendments pending to the continuing resolution. the budget for the federal governme...

In romania, they are lighting lanterns. in florida, the sun sets on a beautiful evening. send them to ireport@cnn.com. it's been just over 20 years since the first text message was sent and now americans send more than $184 billion a month worth of text messages. that's a difficult number for scam artists to ignore and how they are sending these texts designed to get personal information out of you is a subject we want to explore right now. cnn's lisa sylvester is looking into all of this. there's a the lot of scams out there. >> there have been 50,000 complaints on scam text messaging. one ...

Lot odd. go >> bob: more waste in there than the government. >> dana: the parallel is department of homeland security. components taken care of at d.s. were done in different part of the government. bush administration there was a decision to put it under one room. >> kimberly: consolidate. >> dana: there is a decent apt of criticism how it led to duplicitous programs and out-of-control government. before that, there was a feeling they needed to be coordinated to protect the country. >> greg: this is just a government initiative to expand government. 'canes is government initiative to get publ...