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$200,000 -- that's a choice you're doing. >> four things we're trying to do for this budget. get the economy going, get people back to work. save social security, medicare and retirement programs and future generation, we want to give our children a debt-free nation. that's what this plan does and i think what this country wants. >> the debt talk comes as yet another deadline loomts. the national debt is 14.2$14.28 trillion and next month, 14.$14 trillion. if a debt extension isn't voted on, the u.s. could default on its debt and that is the next battle. >> let's go to jim clyburn. congressman...

Save our social security, medicare, our retirement programs for this generation and future generations, repair the social safety net so that it works, not to encourage people to go on welfare, but to get back on their feet and pay off this debt. this plan, using cbo numbers, gets the debt paid off so our children -- you and i are the same age, same age of our children -- we want to give our children a debt-free nation. that's what this plan does. i think that's what this country wants. they want growth, they want a debt-free nation, they want government to begin living within its means and sto...

Growing and get back to work, save our social security, medicare, our retirement programs for this generation and future generations, repair the social safety net so that it works, not to encourage people to go on welfare, but to get back on their feet and pay off this debt. this plan, using cbo numbers, gets the debt paid off so our children -- you and i are the same age, same age of our children -- we want to give our children a debt-free nation. that's what this plan does. i think that's what this country wants. they want growth, they want a debt-free nation, they want government to begin l...

>> and if you look at this budget, you're getting a lot of applause for being bold and courageous, but this is also an ideological document when it comes to taxes, when it comes to not going very far on cutting defense spending beyond what secretary gates has proposed. how about, you want to privatize fannie mae and freddie mac, the mortgage giants, when there is no market other than those two for the mortgages right now. >> the treasury department published it as something they would consider doing. >> but point is, don't the american people want more compromise than is embedded in this docum...

Disclosure from deutsche bank, goldman sachs, morgan stanley. do you intend to look into the fraud? >> we plan on following the trail to all the corruption out there. unone of the important things that speaker boehner said, every committee must do oversight and they're all beefing up for it. ours is the primary. we intend on going after it because as you said, the american people are still on the hook. obviously, aig, they put their aaa wrapping around these insuring them and that's the reason some of these pensions took them on. but now that we know they're not, now that we know they're on th...