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Spending cuts to pay for the doc fix. they asked for unemployment extension and they asked for nothing to pay for it which would have blown a hole in our deficit. a 13th extension of this emergency unemployment extension from the twee crisis -- from the 2008 crisis, we have evidence showing it would prolong unemployment. we want jobs. we want pro growth policies that help create jobs so we don't have people going on unemployment in the first place. one of the things we think it will accomplish by providing the government shutdowns is you can get the economy growing again. our focus is on job c...

And discuss with we want out of the debt limit. we don't want nothing, we will decide what it is we can accomplish out of the debt limit by one of the problems or concerns i have, we department know when it will hit. the treasury secretary, jack lieu, -- jack lew has ultimate discretion. the timing is in doubt. we will meet in our retreats after the holidays and discuss what well try and get. >> in the bill that house of representatives passed, the republicans extend the so-called doc fix avoiding a major cut in reimbursements to doctor whose treat medicare parents and extend that for three mo...

Package with pay force meaning spending cuts to pay for the doc fix. they asked for unemployment extension and they asked for nothing to pay for it which would have blown a hole in our deficit. a 13th extension of this emergency unemployment extension from the twee crisis -- from the 2008 crisis, we have evidence showing it would prolong unemployment. we want jobs. we want pro growth policies that help create jobs so we don't have people going on unemployment in the first place. one of the things we think it will accomplish by providing the government shutdowns is you can get the economy growi...

Ironic thing about this, they've been doing this as long as i've been a reporter, for 15 years. every once in a while they have to come in and give them more money and they sort of figure out a way to do it. but if you're poor, the unemployed, they don't have a really loud voice in congress. >> we should make the point, on the merits about the doc fix, a sudden massive catastrophe indric drop in the payments to doctors would be bad policy and screw up a lot of providers. it's not a question of whether that's good on the merits. >> it's not an either/or, not at all, but at the same time, if we'...

Republicans did slip into this bill a fix for doctors so they would not see their reimbursement rates on medicare go down dramatically, right? this is known as the doc fix. so doctors who are generally fairly well congressmen compensated individuals, they get what they need. the unemployed, out of luck. >> the republicans have not felt enough blowback, frankly, particularly in the house, from their constituents. i think in large part because of the way districts are drawn. they'll say, we will extend it if it's totally paid for, but we are not going to agree to it. and you know, that's what th...