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Sequestration. you heard the secretary say this is real disruption because they have to cut a billion dollars. >> the president, you heard right, compared the president to lincoln. we need real leadership here. the president has to stand up to the plight. if he really thinks this will devastate the military, air traffic control, really devastate meat inspection, they rolled out great political theater, cutting 3% of the budget can cause all these consequences, here is a chance to say here is how we can do it better. the reality is the federal budget even after the cuts will be larger than last...

Exchange for what the president was insisting on, an agreement that the nation's debt ceiling would be increased for 18 months, so obama would not have to go through another such negotiation in 2012 when he was run for re-election. when the president asked a substitute for sequester include not just spending cuts but also new revenue, he is moving the goalpost. his call for a balanced approach is reasonable and he makes a strong case that those in the top income brackets could and should pay more. but that is not the deal he made. just to point this out, the white house is adamant that that is...

Cutting a program that's started yet, just delay -- >> governor patrick, i'm looking at our sheet here. more than 60,000 cuts with the department of defense and non-department of defense in your state alone, job losses because of sequestration. >> this is about growth, always about growth from the president's perspective and ought to be about growth from the american people's perspective and all of our point of view. government has a role to play in that. the president understands that. i've listened to my good friend here, governor jindal, who has talked about these issues as if they are budg...

Up a bit, even if it's a clumsy way of doing it with the sequester. >> look, this is not your father's faa. this is faa that has to meet certain contract obligations with our controllers. we know that air travel is back at a par prior to 9/11. we know a lot of people are flying. we're not making this up, david. we're not making this up in order to put pain on the american people. we are required to cut a billion dollars, and we're going to do that unless congress gets together and works together and compromises on this issue. >> all right. so you talked about being an illinois guy. you talked ...

Raising the ceiling, he proposed he signed in this law, this $85 billion cut. he already has over $600 billion in new revenues. he's already had over $600 billion in increased spending. we are for a balanced approach. we've had more than enough revenues, more than enough growth in government spending. now is the time to start shrinking our spending so we can grow private sector economy, not the government. >> first of all, this isn't about whether there are or are not cuts. the president's plan has cuts. to some extent deeper cuts than the sequester provides. it also has the closing of loophol...