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Compromise agreement that funds the government through september 30th of this year and includes the biggest single year spending cut in history. but boehner is already issuing ultimatums about the next big fight. >> the president has asked us to increase the debt limit of the united states. these are obligations that have been incurred by our government, its moral obligation on the part of us to raise the debt limit. but how can you raise the debt limit, and the president says, i want you to send me a clean bill. well, guess what, mr. president, not a chance you're going to get a clean bill. a...

But how can you raise the debt limit, and the president says, i want you to send me a clean bill. well, guess what, mr. president, not a chance you're going to get a clean bill. and i can just tell you this, there will not be an increase in the debt limit without something really, really big attached to it. >> that's what speaker boehner said at republican fund-raiser on saturday, just hours after the shutdown was averted. a day later on fox news sunday, boehner's number two, majority leader eric cantor elaborated on what he called the really, really big çpossibilities. >> whether it's spend...

The american people want right now whether it's spending caps, entitlement reforms, budget process reforms, these are the kinds of things we're going to have to have in order to go along with the debt limit increase. >> somebody has to remind eric canter part of the reason the debt ceiling needs to be raised is because the republicans demanded the extension of the bush tax cuts. can they add and subtract? that's $4 trillion all on the deficit. and do you know how congress accounted for the bush tax cuts while bush was in office? well, what the heck? they just raise the debt ceiling. let's do i...

Which shattered bones and damaged internal organs. earmarks, mechanisms used by congressional lawmakers to pay for a project usually to benefit his or her constituents. they have evolved from a way of doing business to really a dirty word. that may be changing for better or worse, depending on your point of view. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel is on capitol hill tonight. >> i hear so much about earmarks, the old earmark system. maybe all of you should start thinking about going back to a form of earmarks. >> defined as specific money designated for a specific project at a speci...