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Than one percent, and they re not the real problem. most oppose the measure. to get an idea of how much congressional earmarks are costing you personally, go to fox news.com and use our taxpayer calculator. with the focus on cutting spending, the you cut movement has urged average americans to go on line and vote for programs they would like to eliminate or scale back. a proposal to cut funding for npr s funding won a cut vote. is that a sign that congress is out of touch with the people. the congressman who introduced the proposal joins us with the reaction. great to see you today. are you surprised at all? you come from the g.o.p. side of the aisle. democrats are still running the house, so for now are you surprised they voted down this idea? i was not surprised, but i was disappointed. every single vote against the cut in spending was for democrats. we had bi-partisan support to reduce this amount of spending. ....
Budget bills for the fiscal year. what are they going to get down? that s a great question. i think everybody would like too know that. the thing people are probably watching the most closely are the bush tax cuts and one of the problems is i any that the democrats don t have a unified position. they ve sort of been all over the map versus the republicans who have a very clear position. they want to extend the tax cuts for the upper err ners and the democrats are trying to find some middle ground where maybe we can extend it up to, make it only, you know, people over a million dollars or maybe we won t do it at all or we don t really know what it is. unless they have a really unified position, it makes it really difficult. they can head to nothing getting done. harry reid said if you want to take a vote on our verse of this or let the republicans take a vote extending them for all, we re going to throw it out there. if we can get it done, let s let both votes happen. if the numbers ....
We haven t seen a map like this. this is canada. some of this cold air is diving down across areas of the northern rockies. you see 60s across the central plains. we ve got teens as you head into parts of the dakotas. a big change in the temperatures. cold air will neek it s way sney across much of the east. get ready for a big cold blast and snow. rain in southern california causing flooding concerns. we ll continue to watch that. rick, thank you very much. democrats and president obama voice their concerns this week. we ll ask their political panel what effect this obama out rage could have on the rest of his term and into 2012. plus, a proposal to cut funding for npr won one vote but lost another one. is washington ignoring averaging americans? we ll talk with the congressman who introduced the proposal when we continue. she felt lost. until the combination of three good probiotics ....
will you put it up again for vote in january when the make up of the house changes? we re looking at it right now. you had senator greg on a few minutes ago talking about how we don t want to become like grease with our national debt increasing astronomically. the only way to do that is to redeuce spending and get our budget under control. this kind of program has to be under examination, under the microscope. i know it s not something new for you. you ve been looking at funding for a while. tell us why? this program was created 40 years ago before satellite, before cable, before the internet. maybe it was justified then. it s not justified now. the consumer simply doesn t need the government to give the choices that he has for listening to broadcast. we have so many options available today, and if we re going to get our funding under control, we simply have to look ....