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There is a view that, listen, even if you say that carve out is just about raising the debt limit, that in reality that opens the flood gates. so what's to stop breaking the filibuster for voting rights or any other legislative priority? >> i would advocate for doing that, so i'm probably not the right person to answer that question. -- get rid of it altogether. when the american people support moving forward on voting rights, we ought not have some old antiquated tool that is not in the constitution be in the way of us expressing the will of the american people. so i think this idea that we h...

What the american people want and need that it is literally hard to believe. it is hard to believe. the richest people in this country are doing phenomenally well. the ryan budget substantially lowers taxes for millionaires and billionaires. working families and low income people are struggling. the ryan budget makes savage cuts in nutrition programs, in education, and in health care. it does exactly the opposite of what the merp people need and what the american people want, and as you indicated, this is a continuation of the war against the middle class and working families that the republic...

Little credit pour for it. >> congressman before we let you go, i want to ask you about the budget battle. your conference released its own budget blueprint yesterday. it calls for raising taxes on everyone earning more than $250,000 a year. spends a trillion dollars on public works projects over ten years. >> right. >> you say it will create 7 million jobs by next year. it does not, however, balance the budget. that's something also that the president has talked about. won't this be dead on arrival in the republican house? where do you see this document fitting into the debate? >> first of al...

As soon as obama took office, anything racial, people are more sensitive to it. >> should he apologize? >> that's not for me to say. >> compared to the other racially tinged things that happened since obama took over, i don't think this is a big deal. >> it's not a big deal, but i can understand both sides. i can understand where one side is coming from. let's not make race an issue at all. >> if only we lived in that perfect world. but it's still america. it rears its ugly head. >> unfortunately. >> more politics in the news this morning. the budget battle has been reignited on capitol hill n...