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>> i'm both your groupie. >> let me make one point as everybody is always itself worried about the politics. that's exactly what's wrong with washington. everyone says, how does this affect the next election? i don't care. what i care is quit rationalizeing, what will do it when we finally get in charge? it never happens. we can rationalize it. we won't have a government shutdown. i don't care, the fact is the country is going down the tubes and all this does is add to it. >> can i just add a note of agreement with senator coburn on a point here, which is i do think the 47 job training program...

>> sfwhor you raised that phrase the new england patriots do all the time, do your job. so in terms of just doing your job, you mentioned duplication of effort of federal programs. give us a couple of examples of duply categories of effort that costs taxpayers enormous sums of money. >> we spend $31 billion a year on job training programs which all but three of those programs duplicate one another, in other words, do the same thing. that's 48 different job training programs. if you just consolidated those and put a metric on it so you have to perform. by the way the studies say they don't aeco...

Program make them job training programs, not a place you go and read a computer screen about low wage jobs. there's a lot of ways to make these programs work a lot better but we're not addressing it. there's an idea we need to cut, cut, cut and cut. unfortunately what we're doing, we're not creating the atmosphere for people to actually become more productive. i think that's the argument, the change, how do you make people more productive, give back to society. >> there's a narrative, a sense somehow people who aren't working need to be punished in some way because they have done something wro...

Hours ago, went to the house floor, made a speech on this issue, he doesn't do anything like this very often, and talked about the fact that the house has passed. he said, 150 bills that the senate has not touched. listen to what he said. >> these bills would do things like increase the supply of american energy and build the keystone pipeline. roll back red tape and unnecessary regulations, provide more flexibility to working families, reform and improve job training programs, protect americans from cyber attacks, help schools to recruit and keep the best teachers. belay the individual mandat...

Feed her family because the she doesn't earn enough. >> we are seeing in arizona. thought the headline about, about tanif, formerly welfare, because of the way the funding structure works in arizona, 5700 families won't get the checks. no one is running to the house floor today. i will note to pass a continuing resolution to just fund to make the recipients in arizona get their checks. >> one of the things we often misunderstand is that people often, particularly in an economy like this lose jobs, lose jobs for long period of time. some of what we are cutting are the very job training programs...