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A close vote. we need step-by-step reform. and step one is enforcing the law on the books now. i think clearly americans want that. >> shannon: senator viter, thank you for your time. america has its first gold, in the summer olympic, swimmer ryan lackke. but he got in trouble for insisting to wear a u.s. diamond flag grill in his mouth in the ceremony. china leads the pack with the most medals and the most goals so far. america's got 7 and italy's third with 6 medals. [ bell tolls ]

Funded but not at the same levels and this prevents a lot of bad things from haand prevee from being scared often unnecessarily that they are not going to get paid. >> shannon: how long has it been sense the senate passed a budget? >> more than three years. interesting, shannon, the last time the senate passed a budget there was no such thing as the ipad, no one had heard of it. it is stunning to think that throughout that entire duration of time since we have known that devis the ipad in our culture now, we never had a budget. this is a big problem because budgets represent priorities, priori...

This year and now another $500 billion over the next ten years. if washington doesn't reach a deal on federal spending. how confident are you that the two sides will get anything done in the election year before the sequestration cuts kick in not only for defense but domestic spending as well? >> i'm very concerned. there has already been a $487 billion reduction in the defense budget and now another half trillion dollars is being proposed. i believe this is second the wrong message to enemies overseas. they believe that the american people the israelis have the watch but you they have the tim...

>> they need to be held accountable by the voters. one good question to ask to your senator or house of representatives is have you either presented a budget on your own or if you haven't presented one have you at least voted for one? >> we have had no budget is submitted by any democrat in this congress either this year or last year that has received a single vote in the united states senate. not about by a single democrat, not by a single republican. that is a big problem. so if your senator hasn't even submitted or even voted for one, you ought to hold them accountable and ask them why and ...

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