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Associated press on friday talking about the debt ceiling in the upcoming battle for that. "i think he," meaning speaker boehner, "is absolutely right that increasing the debt ceiling is not going to happen without some spending cuts." now the white house kind of walked that back a little and seemed to suggest that he didn't mean exactly that there would be spending cuts attached to the debt ceiling. how do you see this playing out? what are you willing to give up? what is your understanding what the white house is willing to do to get this thing passed? >> well, i think the debt ceiling shoul...

>> personally, sally, did you experience this with your co-workers and with workers during the last government shutdown? what are the personal stories from there? >> well, what i heard mostly was a sense of what did i do wrong? is this really my fault? it was self-doubt. and when they came back to work and they were faced with picking up the tasks that they were undertaking when they were told to leave, they're sort of wondering, well, what's the next step? will this happen again? and in fact, in '95, it did. there was one small shutdown and then everyone came back to work and then there was a...

Was deceptively already appropriated by president obama. >> the speaker has said that it would be irresponsible not to raise the debt limits, as will be called for soon. will you agree with him on that and do that? >> i am not in favor of raising the debt ceiling. in the last ten years, we have raised the debt ceiling ten times. we are just giving the congress a license to keep on spending. and one thing the american people are demanding, because they want to see jobs created, they want to see the economy get on a good footing, in order to do that, government has to take less so that the ameri...

Ideas increasing the debt limits with draconian elements. we're going to be in the middle of this over the course of the next two years. i agree we need to have tax reform. the last thing we need to do is extend tax cuts for people who need them the least, but we also need to continue with the rebuilding and renewing america, and accelerating health care reform, not trying to eliminate it. >> congressman, let me get more specific. to president obama's credit, and to the democrats' credit, they want to take away oil subsidy. some of them do. some of them don't, but a lot of them do. $36 billion...

To the middle and restore some common sense, fiscal discipline and accountability to our federal government and let me just say that obviously, if the debt rim -- if the debt limit has to be raised and i mean, president bush raised it seven times and president obama has raised it twice now. obviously, we can't have the bond market -- we can't default on our loans and so forth, so i think, you know, there's going to have to be a compromise. the bottom line is there's a lot of us that are conservative democrats that aren't going to vote to raise the debt limits understanding that we have to pay ...