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Safe territory. It has been a long and bumpy road after failing in the house. Going through several interations but the major hurdle was passing the house last week. It seems fairly safe in the senate tomorrow. The stort of big changes is the ends the direct payments in which the government sent out 5 billion regardless of the weather or crop yield. It didnt prod farmers to plant any more of one kind of crop to get subsidies. But it wasnt politically poplar. They are beefing up the insurance for natural disasters. The other part of the bill is the funding for food stamps. They will ultimately cut 8 million in food stamp funding which is small enough to get Many Democrats on board who balked at the other versions like one that had 40 million in cuts. So this was enough to get it through the house. Christina peterson. Follow her on twitter and her stories are online. Coming up tonight, cspan created in 1979 and brought to you as a < ....
Into account, you know, the possibility of other costs and risks that might be associated with a large expansion of our Balance Sheet. Darren and then christina and then greg. So just following up on that last question. How helpful would it be to see as part of the fiscal cliff resolution some nearterm stimulus . The president s proposed that. Do you think how helpful do you think that would be, and ill ask my followup now . Whatever happened to your southern accent . Well, on the second one id like to think im bilingual. When i go home, sometimes it comes out pretty strongly, but i wont try to do that here. So i try to be careful, as you know, not to give views on specific taxandspending programs. I think, of course, obviously those are the province of the administration and congress. The attitude ive taken has been that at a minimum congress should try to do no harm, that they should try to avoid policies that that significantly ....
Wire both sides saying lets just get this done and take this problem off of the table . I do not know. Anybody else there must be some insight regarding the reliability of the grid is reliable. I had no idea why they would go along with that. And from it is the lawyers. Doctor . I think as we look at the bigger picture, and the substances that are being used by athletes, we talked earlier about the supplement you can buy on the internet and in Health Food Stores that may or may not contain illegal substances. I think a lot of athletes that i talk with who have gotten caught in drug testing, they say that all i did was go to gnc and by a protein powder or a muscle product and i didnt know that it had anabolic steroids and and or whatever it was that broke the rule. I think there is some concern that this is the bigger issue in i think some athletes may be concerned that they are going to do the right thing, but also get caught ....
Quote newsmakers, senator Chuck Grassley from iowa, member of the budget, finance committee and Ranking Member on the Senate Judiciary committee. Thank you for being with me. Thank you for inviting me. Joining us with questioning is the chief washington correspondent for the examiner. We are about one month away from the selfimposed deadline for congress to come forth with the budget plan spending bill. What will it look like and will you reach the deadline . I dont believe it will be very easy for us to make an agreement between the republicans and the democrats because the democrats want to increase taxes, they want to forgo sequestration. If there is going to be an agreement, it seems to me it has to be a willingness of republicans to give something up on sequestration but only that would happen if there is a long < ....
If there is going to be an agreement, it seems to me it has to be a willingness of republicans to give something up on sequestration but only that would happen if there is a long Term Solution that we can arrive that between Social Security and medicare and including tax reform. Can that happen . I am very pessimistic it can happen but i know that republicans are going to try to work in that direction and i know that congressman ryan is working very closely with patty murray of the Senate Budget committee to try to get in that direction. It is a tough row to hoe. If thats the case, then what . Then you have sequestration which is the law of the land and republicans are generally satisfied with sequestration. Since it is the law of the land, it seems to me like it is as simple as passing a claimcr c. R. Through the house a ....