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Break as you know. when you look at the sequester, senate democrats are expected to announce their plan to avoid the sequester, showing that according to one report it's a 50/50 split over the next ten months, spending cuts and new taxes, part of their idea, including the buffett rule, which is the cap deductions and loopholes for millionaires so they pay at least 30% of their salaries in taxes. would you support that as we get closer to that deadline? >> yes, and i think the senate is really on the right track. where i would like to end up, and this is actually part of the internal debate in ...

Spending. now, for the last two years, the house has done its work, we've passed legislation to tackle the tough challenges that america faces only to see our senate colleagues do nothing. well, those days are over. the house will continue to meet our obligations. but the senate democrats must begin to do their work. that's why we passed the no budget no pay act of requiring the senate to pass a budget for the first time in four years and that's why we're going to insist that they finally pass a plan to replace the president's sequester. this sequester was the president's idea. his party needs...

Some of the resources for infrastructure, for building new schools. it doesn't get the federal government involved in curriculum, but rather in helping with deferred maintenance and helping to build these facilities. that doesn't interfere with that state federal role. but there is an important obligation here to try to help, particularly in those states that are really struggling. i think my colleague ms. blackburn would like to see the federal government out of everything. and a much diminished federal government and we see that reflected in the gop budget, which would cut food stamps and wo...

This legislation is expected to follow regular order. we're talking about committee hearings, markup, a conference committee with it ending up on the president's desk as early as this summer. perhaps after the august recess. if the president however insists on immediate pathway for citizenship for those 11 million it will be scene by conservative republicans as a poison pill and may jeopardize the spirit of bipartisanship we are seeing now. bill: thank you, doug mckelway on the hill this morning. martha: not surprisingly republican say president obama laid out a partisan agenda in his speech. ...

Speech met with stoney faces including house speaker john boehner who came out blasting the president moments ago. >> last night the president offered up more of the same. higher taxes and more stimulus spending. weeks away from the president's sequester and the president laid out no plan. >> the speech we got was par for the course. very liberal, fairly partisan. >> does president obama's post speech tour and his message last night signal a commander-in-chief whose second term strategy is with or without you. >> he sure as heck wasn't trying to bring both sides together. his political calcula...