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Agreement to turn it off. >> senator, i'm going to open this back up to our panel. katrina, i think it's an important question sam skrks the question of sequestration, which has been sidelined and in the process the goalposts have decidedly been moved to the right. this is a strategic question for democrats. >> absolutely. >> how much will they push and how much ground to republicans they don't know despite all that polling whether they want to open the government back up. >> i think you're right the goalposts have been moved. almost paul ryan's numbers have become a centrist number. he's inje...

There was a large amount of people not paying any attention to it whatsoever because it was senior prescription drug coverage. seniors however, were paying a lot of attention to it. and they signed up. when they signed up for the program three bad things happened. more people signed up than were expected. they signed up quicker than was expected. and they used it more than was expected. the so-called utilization rate was higher, and yet, this year is the 10th anniversary of the passage of that law and the law is coming in 40% under the cost estimates of the congressional budget office because ...

Have. the snap program and others and electronic benefit transfer cards and there is no means testing. look, we have a government that is using taxpayer dollars to solicit people to go on the programs. >> thank you for joining us this week. >> coming up, the white house tour still cancelled and i hope the president is listening before he heads on the next trip. over pie charts all day. i want to travel, and i want the income to do it. ishares incomes etfs. low cost and diversified. find out why nine out of ten large professional investors choose ishares for their etfs. ishares by blackrock. ca...

Most vulnerable to a group that was relatively in power. so by putting food stamps and supplemental nutrition in the farm bill, you create a circumstance where you have to make that safety net available because it is linked up with farmers and all the farm subsidy s that have a huge interest. here is where you make it up, that even in the poorest circumstances that the people will not be forgotten. delink those things in a way it is extremely dangerous. >> this farm bill was terrible. because the $20 billion in cuts to snap was completely unacceptable. the expanding the crop -- >> the 26 peopl...

Here is where you make it up, that even in the poorest circumstances that the people will not be forgotten. delink those things in a way it is extremely dangerous. >> this farm bill was terrible. because the $20 billion in cuts to snap was completely unacceptable. the expanding the crop -- >> the 26 people in the crop insurance people make more than a million. there is no means testing -- >> right, and let me say this. two amendments got voted down, one two people who make about $250,000. seems reasonable. they also voted on an amendment that would stop farm crop insurance payments, to members...