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The government to do things, nadia. >> no, no, no. >> you think the government has to take care of you. >> one thing we need ed to realize and i'm glad we are excited about this and having fun, but we are t not so different from one another -- democrats and republicans. none of us think it is a good thing to have a deficit problem. we are all trying to solve it. the difference between democrats and republicans is the democrats think it's important to fund the supplemental nutrition assistance program more than give huge sums to companies like monsanto. >> i'm a conservative. end all corporate ...

Creation. welcome, senator. >> thanks for having me on. >> aren't you glad you're in the private sector now? >> well, i am. it's a little frustrating to watch what's going on. >> i can't even imagine. this idea of passing a series of bills to fund certain parts of the government, is that a good idea? >> it gets to the same end. it's ironic and a little amusing that at some point you basically have a clean resolution, you have a clean continuing resolution if you fund in parts most of the government. i'm not sure what point is made by that. seems to me they need to find the ground where they ca...

The american middle class. >> let's talk about the budget. the government runs out of money on december 30th that raises another government shutdown. while the president talks about higher taxes or spending and investment as he puts it, the gop says the sequester must stay in place, $109 billion in the next fiscal year maybe reconfigured but $109 billion but billions of dollars more in spending cuts. they say cut spending. other than the republicans surrendering, what's your plan to avoid a government shutdown? >> if you look at what's going on right now in terms of our deficit, we are reducin...

The american middle class. >> let's talk about the budget. the government runs out of money on december 30th that raises another government shutdown. while the president talks about higher taxes or spending and investment as he puts it, the gop says the sequester must stay in place, $109 billion in the next fiscal year maybe reconfigured but $109 billion but billions of dollars more in spending cuts. they say cut spending. other than the republicans surrendering, what's your plan to avoid a government shutdown? >> if you look at what's going on right now in terms of our deficit, we are reducin...

Either side of the aisle that don't believe in infrastructure. and i don't know a lot of people on either side of the aisle that don't believe in educating the next generation. >> but there's a deficit problem and we can't afford to spend more money. >> if you look at where we are today, we're not where we were in 2011. we have actually worked together. it's been a messy process, but we've worked together and reduced the deficit considerably. in the budget control act, we reduced the deficit on ae discretionary spending side. we enacted some tax legislation that raised the tax rate at the very...