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Don't see any key component where it gets broken. >> senator blumenthal, i want to play an exchange that you had with mr. clapper last week. let's listen to that. >> you spoke about the challenges of recruiting and keeping the best minds in america which all of us want to be available to the american intelligence community. is there anything that we can do to encourage or support that effort? >> well, sir, it would be nice if they would get a pay raise occasionally, and it would be nice not to be threatened with furloughs. >> i take that to heart and to mind. >> senator, you raised such a very...

Several other hub's impact on the entire system is a lot bigger. no matter how you slice this. >> on the issue of safety. >> can you again look the american people in the eye and say the sequester will have no affect on safety? >> yes. the impact will be on efficiency, but we will not do anything to compromise safety. >> reporter: across the capitol the senate majority leader claim the sequester cuts could hurt society in much bigger ways. >> it can hurt the country. aids, park kins disease or cancer. >> remember cans pounced on that line with one telling me washington's scare among gerg of th...

Nation's airports, the sequester continuing to take its toll on the airline industry. harry reid says democrats will present a plan to replace the sequester cuts using money saved by ending the war in afghanistan. the white house says it would a renew new legislation bringing air traffic controllers back, but mitch mcconnell is blaming the obama administration for the cuts in the first place. >> i would argue political motives, thousands of people were stuck on tarmacs over the last few days. the faa's mismanagement of this issue is a source of bipartisan frustration. our goal here shouldn't b...

In effect, undermining what we can discover and cure for the future. >> it seems like nothing has gotten washington's attention to these sequester cuts more than what we're seeing in the air traffic story these days. >> well, before that, keep in mind there was the white house story which was a problem because it was in washington. the delta shuttle, the inconvenience in the delta shuttle line has also gotten washington's attention. and the impacts of sequestration have been felt far beyond the northeast corridor. headstart programs are taking kids off. private cancer clinics are stopping trea...

>> in his remarks, lawrence, director clapper made remarks about intelligence agents that may be given shorter hours or even furloughs, and the same, conceivably, very probably is true of prosecutors and fbi agents, although we have no confirmation of it. obviously, these impacts are the least visible. the most visible are the impacts on air travel. 4700 delays and 273 cancellations today alone, and then the less visible impacts on health care and headstart, meals on wheels for seniors, other kinds of service programs, including research for cancer, in effect, undermining what we can discover ...