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this program is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by wpbt >> susie: good evening, everyone. my colleague tom hudson is off tonight. house republicans are trying to wrap up three days of work on a bill to cut $60 billion in federal spending. topping the target list: president obama's health care reform. businesses are watching the battle carefully to see if their contracts will be eliminated. investors are looking for signs uncle sam's red ink will finally come under control. darren gersh has more on the spending ...

>> reporter: republicans even took some swings at each other. tea party activists like joe walsh pushing an amendment to cut non-security spending by 5.5% across the board. >> we are broke, we are $14 trillion in debt, and we know it's more than that. >> reporter: hal rogers, the republican chairman of the appropriations committee, says an across the board cut goes too far. >> we were elected to make choices, not run on automatic pilot. >> reporter: the house voted against making the deeper across the board cuts. of course, with democrats controlling the senate and the white house, a...

this program is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by wpbt >> susie: good evening, everyone. my colleague tom hudson is off tonight. house republicans are trying to wrap up three days of work on a bill to cut $60 billion in federal spending. topping the target list: president obama's health care reform. businesses are watching the battle carefully to see if their contracts will be eliminated. investors are looking for signs uncle sam's red ink will finally come under control. darren gersh has more on the spending ...

is made possible by: this program is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by wpbt >> susie: good evening, everyone. my colleague tom hudson is off tonight. house republicans are trying to wrap up three days of work on a bill to cut $60 billion in federal spending. topping the target list: president obama's health care reform. businesses are watching the battle carefully to see if their contracts will be eliminated. investors are looking for signs uncle sam's red ink will finally come under control. darren gersh has ...

this program is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by wpbt >> susie: good evening, everyone. my colleague tom hudson is off tonight. house republicans are trying to wrap up three days of work on a bill to cut $60 billion in federal spending. topping the target list: president obama's health care reform. businesses are watching the battle carefully to see if their contracts will be eliminated. investors are looking for signs uncle sam's red ink will finally come under control. darren gersh has more on the spending ...