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Concerned about it. because if it were to hit and we were to go over it, so many parts of the budget would be affected and so many citizens would. not only is it the expiration of the upper income tax cuts, all the tax be cuts would expire, many of us would be hit by the alternative minimum tax. the sequester affects both defense and discretionary parts of the budget that would have affects from housing to, you know, different parts that affect citizens that you want to generally protect. we would have something called the dock fix, this plan where we're supposed to cut physician payments and ...

Unemployment insurance is going to expire, the amt, the dock fix. this is a congress you know for years and years, it's been getting worse and worse that is compulsively unable to solve problems or even try to solve problems. listen, everybody in washington knows nothing's getting done until the lame duck. get out your pens and paper for november 7th because that's when the real work starts. think about it constitutionally, this is a whole group of people, some of whom have been defeated and decided to retire. it's not even very democratic to save all of your work for the very last minute and ...

In other words we would get over $4 trillion over that ten-year period? it would be more than the $4 trillion that a lot of people talked about, right? >> yes, that's right. >> it's a great byte. chris van holland from maryland making an important point. is that basically because of the way, because of a number of things, the expiration of the bush tax cuts, but also changes to the alternative minimum tax, which congress is constantly passing patches to, the so-called medicare dock fix which also is a way of avoiding what are statutory diminishments in the amount of pay that doctors gets from ...

middle class tax cut that has been given to us for -- by name, to reduce the amount that we're paying into social security. what we should be talking about the real tax reform, what it's going to take to increase our revenues by broadening our economic base, by growing our economy. we aren't doing that. we need to be talking about what the american people want to hear. that's where the jobs are going to come from. >> that would be congressman dennis ross speaking there. christine romans is in atlanta this morning breaking down the details on this. >> i think, soledad, in an election ...

lin-sanity. that's some excitement, leading the niknicks to a 17-point comeback. that wonderful three-pointer, look at this place going bananas. we'll talk about what lin-sanity means coming up. >> even toronto loves him, that's where they were playing. new details on whitney houston, a report on a drug investigation now. folks really want to say their good-byes but they're saying, the family is saying there's no michael jackson-like farewell scheduled for her. they will have a small service at her childhood church. also, it was such a big story, amanda knox being cleared and hea...