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>> chris: and what is more attractive to you as sit here today, running for president or staying in the house doing the important work you do there and maybe some day becoming speaker? >> i have no plans to be in house elect leadership. if i wanted to be in elected leadership like speaker i would have run for these jobs years ago, i believe the better place is in policy leadership. with respect to running for are president i honestly think that we have a problem right now you. a budget mess and a debt crisis coming. i represent the first district of wisconsin. that to me is the first important...

>> chris: and what is more attractive to you as sit here today, running for president or staying in the house doing the important work you do there and maybe some day becoming speaker? >> i have no plans to be in leadership. if i wanted to be in elected leadership like speaker i would have run for these jobs years ago, i believe the better place is in policy leadership. with respect to running for are president i honestly think that we have a problem right now you. a budget mess and a debt crisis coming. i represent the first district of wisconsin. that to me is the first important thing and i...

Prioritizing my spending, looking at ways to eliminate waste and make things more efficient. i closed the budget gap, close to 8% cut and spending in oklahoma. the result of that is that my unemployment rate dropped from 7% to 5.1% and vieconomic growth in our state. we went from $2.03 in our rainy-day savings account to over $600 million in two years. if states can do it, the federal government can do it. i don't hear the president talking about how to make government more efficient. he talks about how we have have tax increases and cut all of these programs and how we are going to scare ever...

Teachers. what i did was go about prioritizing my spending and eliminate government waste and make things more efficient and close the budget gap, close to 8% cut of spending in oklahoma and the result of that has been that my unemployment rate dropped from 7% to 5.1% and now i have actually economic growth in our state. went from $2.03 in the rainy day account to over 600 million dollars in savings in just two years, so, if states can do it, the federal government can do it. i don't hear the president talking about it, how are we going to make government more efficient, effective and eliminat...

The president woodward's column was a game changer this week. the president now owns sequestration. it is fact. republicans should withstand the heat in the coming days and coming weeks and then after it happens need to get out of this town and go on offense and explain that they had two options. accept more tax increases which is bad are for the country and they are not going to do that or allowed spending cuts. they weren't done the way they proposed them but it was abouter than raising tax increases. let me make the point with all of the governors here in town today the republicans have a g...