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Obamacare because, most of obamacare is not discretionary spending that will be affected by the continuing resolution we're talking about. most of the funding for obamacare is mandatory spending. let's go back to the original 2010 cbo score which was roughly $1,050,000,000,000 for the first 10 years the law would be on the books. 450 was for medicare, medicaid expansion, mandatory spending not affected by the continuing resolution. 450 billion-dollars for so-called exchanges. mandatory spending not affected by the continuing resolution. $50 billion for a small business subsidy, that was so rid...

Cut, cap and balance bill. congressman, this bill is being debated on the floor now. it would roll back spending to 1966 levels, i believe. it's so extreme that even the ryan budget would be unconstitutional, and it protects tax cuts for the rich and corporations. how is that a balanced approach, if your view? >> i respectfully disagree with your characterization of it. quite frankly, in fy-12, all it cuts is roughly 11.5 billion dollars. that means it's only addressing 7% of the problem in fy-12. we would all like to spend money on programs, but in order to do that you have to have the money ...