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Cuts into readiness as we heard the service branch chiefs talk extensively about risk and readiness crisis. so we're trying to let other members know we've already been to the table in reducing military budgets and taking 50% of the sequester cut and placing it in 18% of the budget, not a smart way to go about this. we want to make sure we reduce defic deficit. this is not the smart way to do it. and it cuts at this nation's ability to defend itself. >> it sounds like have you reservations about the sequester now. but you did vote for the budget control act of 2011, which included sequestratio...

Alabama? >> yeah. >> excuse me, someone is knocking. but -- but the -- the abortion thing, you know, that's really interesting because as you recall the health care debate also at the end of the day, remember, came down to abortion. you know, this tea party supposed to be about only money. it's all about the deficit and the debt. it's really the same old people who used to be the christian conservatives when they supposedly took over the republican party. the republican party doesn't change. it rebrands itself from time to time, but it's still the same people, and they are still obsessed with ...

And tax cheats are trying to get away with not paying. for every dollar spent on that by the irs, the government gets about $10. that's the money we take in. in the new keep the government open deal, the republicans just killed all of president obama's requests for new irs enforcement spending. zeroed it out. as of the end of last year, tax evaders and tax cheats had scammed the government out of $330 billion. that's all outstanding, and it's almost ten times as much money as the republicans and the president just cut out of the budget. ten times that money almost is laying there for the takin...

The news for which you don't need a reporter or expert analyst to help you understand. what you need is a comedian in order to understand their importance. this is one of those things. the keep the government open % deal that the republicans forced in d.c. on friday night includes $39 billion in cuts below the president's budget. the president will give a speech tomorrow that's expected to say i'm interested in cutting even more. the main thing driving the conversation in washington now is concern for the deficit. the republicans came into power in the house screaming about the defic deficit. ...

Nixon, reagan, fed chairman under bush. what did he say? you've got to let these tax cuts expire for everybody. it looks like the old men of washington are starting to talk like european leaders and they want to focus on on reducing the debt first. >> exactly. that is what is the two comments have in common is the deficit. you're seeing the lack of confidence in the united states. they say we have to start doing things to deal with our deficit to show we are beginning to take it down, or people are going to be more and more nervous about channeling the dollars and funds in our direction and th...