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Stop thinking as partisans and understand we all come together and work together and figure out how to cut entitlement spending growth and cut our budget and balance our budgets over the next ten years or else we are in huge, huge trouble and you're stupid partisanship is only damaging america, okay? >> it's true. >> stop with the stupidity. >> okay. i think also -- >> your stupidity, okay? >> joe your point is -- >> you're being stupid. this is about being an american. not about being a partisan. so i can just say this. i don't know if i should be comfortable saying this or not because we're ...

Since we've had polls over the republican, way over the democrat. your thoughts on this race? >> i'm pleased about it. i think that the people of florida want somebody who is independently affiliated. that really their only obligation is not to the republicans or democrats but the people of the state. that's exactly where i am. that makes decisions like this that much easier to make. i think it's very important when you see the gridlock that occurs in washington, d.c. -- people are fed up with it. i'm fed up. i think what the people of -- the people of america want people to think about the pe...

Supposed to be used with budget bills. enter 63-year-old allen frumin, the senate parliamentarian. in theory it is frumin who decides whether a given item in a health care reconciliation bill effects health care and must be stricken from the bill. >> shepard: allen frumined suddenly the most powerful man in d.c. >> some are describing him that way. we spoke with c-span former scholar in residence who has known frumin for years and who offered this warning. >> don't blame him for what happens because he is the person of great integrity and very technically oriented. very judicious. he is looks ...

Which would impact the budget and does not. and therefore have to be stricken. long time associates say frewman would rule conscientiously. >> he doesn't do it from policy. he has made democratic senators and republican senators very angry in the past. and he is not a party hack. >> under the byrd rule named after robert byrd in not directly related to the budget, an abortion provision, let's say, a lawmaker can motion for that item to be stricken and parliamentarian's ruling will be sought. if his ruling is disputed it may proceed to the president of the senate which is now vice president joe...

Which would impact the budget and does not. and therefore have to be stricken. long time associates say frewman would rule conscientiously. >> he doesn't do it from policy. he has made democratic senators and republican senators very angry in the past. and he is not a party hack. >> under the byrd rule named after robert byrd in not directly related to the budget, an abortion provision, let's say, a lawmaker can motion for that item to be stricken and parliamentarian's ruling will be sought. if his ruling is disputed it may proceed to the president of the senate which is now vice president joe...