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Going forward. what he believes is a fair approach to resolving our budget challenges is reflected in the budget he submitted. he knows that even though that was a compromise proposition from the beginning and reflected the offer he made to speaker boehner at the end of last year, that heal not get in a budget negotiation everything he wants, and neither will democrats and neither will republicans. and that's the nature of compromise. but he firmly believes that balance, when it comes to further reducing our deficits and building on the work that has been done over these past four years in whi...

The first question i have for you is, looking at this story as an outsider, it seems to me like pennsylvania's priorities are extremely screwed up at the moment. >> well, let me say this, chris. i'm focused on trying to get additional funding to invest in the education of our children here in philadelphia. we've had our budget challenges here at the city and the school district has as well, separate entity, as you mentioned in your opening, controlled by the commonwealth of pennsylvania. we do have a budget deficit. i put forward a plan to fill some of that deficit, but we do need additional s...

An outsider, it seems to me like pennsylvania's priorities are ex-streamly screwed up at the moment. >> well, let me say this, chris. i'm focused on trying to get additional funding to invest in the education of our children here in philadelphia. we've had our budget challenges here at the city and the school district has as well, separate entity, as you mentioned in your opening, controlled by the commonwealth of pennsylvania. we do have a budget deficit. i put forward a plan to fill some of that deficit, but we do need additional support from the commonwealth and we need to save money as a r...

You is, looking at this story as an outsider, it seems to me like pennsylvania's priorities are extremely screwed up at the moment. >> well, let me say this, chris. i'm focused on trying to get additional funding to invest in the education of our children here in philadelphia. we've had our budget challenges here at the city and the school district has as well, separate entity, as you mentioned in your opening, controlled by the commonwealth of pennsylvania. we do have a budget deficit. i put forward a plan to fill some of that deficit, but we do need additional support from the commonwealth a...

Securing american people? >> well, rev, in part, if you look at this -- and i hate to make this a partisan issue at all, but the fact that they don't want to address what would have happened in boston had we not had the resources necessary on the state, local, and federal levels to really deal with this immediately, the best thing for them to do is to talk about whether or not they are on welfare because it's a distraction from what really matters. we know that our resources are stretched very thin and we've got to make really critical decisions to ensure whether a sequestration or other budge...