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Geoff cutmore live for us in london. thank you very much. let's move on to the ryan/murray budget heading to the white house. the bill passed with bipartisan support yesterday. the vote 64-36. nine republicans joined the democratic caucus. now the appropriations committee has fewer than four weeks to figures out discretionary spending levels for basically the entire federal government. that responsibility making some republicans the target of attacks from the far right. several lawmakers are already coming under fire from tea party groups and two republican appropriators in the house announc...

Product, conservative wish list. turned medicare into a voucher program and make medicaid a block program. the murray budget by contrast is a much more cautious proposal. one to one ratio of spending cuts and new tax revenue. with the coverage focusing on these plans, there is a third proposal, one that constitutes a much stronger liberal weight to the unbending conservatism of the ryan budget. that is the budget propose bid the congressional progressive caucus which would add $2 trillion in new spending to create jobs and pay for it by raising taxes on the wealthy and corporations. the entire...

Infrastructure. addresses the primary problem facing the economy. which is -- lack of employment and long-term unemployment for very large fraction of our people. it gets down to primary balance by 2015 and gets the budget deficit down to 1.7% gdp by 2016. >> let me show that. this is also the interesting thing about the cpc budget even in the contours of the question about producing long-term deficit it does a better job than the patty murray budget. this is the -- this is the -- how it would reduce deficit. it will do that more than the murray budget. green line there. blue one. ryan budget,...

Spectrum, progressive caucus budget which would increase that spending by nearly 28%. you may expect that murray's center left democratic budget would fall somewhere around halfway between the two where you would see the red line or slightly towards the progressive end of the spectrum. look at where it falls. murray budget, which cuts a little less than 1% of nondefense discretionary funding, falls not halfway but closer to the rye plan. same true of other mandatory spending which includes aid for the poor and unemployed. ryan plan would cut those programs by 16%, progressive's budget would in...

Final budget push before the easter break. good evening. >> good evening. after four years of the senate not passing a budget, many members will vote for the first time tonight on a plan, late night and likely political consequences. it is voting day in united states senate. >> we had 400 amendments filed. 400. i'm not going do 400 amendments. the average we have on this is between 25 to 35. so i would, everyone should understand that is about where we should wind up. >> votes on issues including abortion, the death tax. and bail-out, which could have an impact on races in 2014, potentially th...