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>> claire mccaskill, she has been out here talking about this budget. house democrats and senate democrats have moved in her direction. the bottom line is this, though, she voted against hr-1 as did every other democrat. that's the republican proposal because i think we're united in one thing. we should make significant cuts, absolutely. we need to. but, we can't cut into our seed corn. we can't cut into things that help america grow and create jobs like education or cancer research or food safety, things like that. and i think what you're finding, chuck, is you're going to find a turning poin...

>> as i said, this short-term cr does meet our basic criteria. the president and senate democrats which is cut the waste, cut inefficiency but don't cut the seed corn. and the tsunami shows that as well. we propose cutting some earmarks out of the funding of noaa which has the regulation and watching out for tsunamis. they cut so much out of noaa which funds the tsunami warning center that there would have to be furloughs there. so we're sticking to where we're at. the short-term cr moved us in that direction. now we should negotiate one for the rest of the year. we only have six months left. ...

Be able to continue our use of the space station, for instance. it's just now operable. it's just now becoming useful, and it's a national laboratory. we're doing not only health research that can't be done on earth, it has to be in microgravity conditions, but also energy research. this is the future. it's our seed corn. if we can't put people up there, then the space station is going to be not utilized. we can't extend it to 2020. and using just commercial, which is my biggest problem with this proposal that president obama is putting forward, he's taking the money out of nasa and putting it...

An essential. >> gregg: congressman, before the recess, your party, the gop, blocked an extension of unemployment insurance for people out of work for more than six months. how do republicans explain that to the millions of people trying to put food on the table and keep a roof over their heads? >> they didn't block it all. they say you are going to take it from a particular group, you not need to borrow more. the national debt has gone up 500%. the entire collection of income taxes in america is $930 billion. in the first ten days that barack obama was in office, he spent $8900 billion on a n...

That seems to be the only answers. >> these guys spent so much money. our children, our grandchildren and great grandchildren's money to the point if they don't cut spending, the only thing they can do to act like they want to balance the budget is to raise tax. the problem is when you raise taxes in an economy like this, more people lose jobs, more people have government dependency and fewer people are paying taxes. it's really eating your seed corn or if you will, biting off your fingers and hoping you can throw the baseball better. >> talk about -- we've a full screen on the economy. a rece...