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Cost us billions of in jobs and forcing our families an communities to pay the price. so i'm very proud to stand here today with chairman ryan to announce we have broken through the partisanship and gridlock and reached a bipartisan budget compromise that will prevent a government shutdown in january. our deal puts jobs and economic growth first by rolling back sequestration and harmful cuts to medication and medical research and defense jobs for the next two years. now i know there were some people who thought the cuts should continue but i'm glad that we increased these key domestic investme...

And our sequestration cuts were forcing our families and communities to pay the price. so i am very proud to stand here today with chairman ryan to announce we have broken through the partisanship and the gridlock and reached a bipartisan budget compromise that will prevent a government shutdown in january. our deal puts jobs and economic growth first by rolling back sequestration's harmful cuts to education and medical research and infrastructure investments and defense jobs for the next two years. now, i know there were some people who thought these cuts should continue, but i'm glad we incr...

Competitive as a national party. >> neil: senator, some of the friction or whatever you call it between you and senator mccain, the senator tried to put to rest by apologizing to you and senator cruise cruz for his remarks. how railroad getting along with -- are you getting along with senator mccain? >> i have a great deal of respect for senator mccain. we disagree on some things but i respect his war service and years as a p.o.w. and he's a voice for people who believe in national security, but so do i. i don't want to say there can't be more than one way to defend the country and there's not...

Tumble, a difference between armageddon and tumble. the problem with sequester isn't the amount of cuts, honestly we're not cutting 85 billion dollars this year, there's only 44 billion dollars in outlays, that's little over 1% of the federal budget, that is not armageddon, the problem is that they're indiscriminate. they're across the board cuts and i pointed out last week, there's a simple solution to that, which republicans are voting, hopefully they're going to vote on it in the senate today, is a bill to give the president the authority to have the discretion, to choose which programs get...

Have called for talks with the republicans, extended an olive branch in terms of policy and the speech you suggested, too, did not do that. we are looking at crippling cuts in domestic programs and in foreign assistance, in our military programs, which really are draconian cuts. neither side wants them but neither is putting forward a realistic plans. it makes no sense. it is bad. >> this is the consequence of a washington that is so dysfunctional. the the president now says he has no idea where they came from. the republicans and the democrat leaders in congress who vote god them act like the...