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Does it frequently. i give him credit for that. for trying to hammer something out. it may or may not fly. all we hear is the intransgent republicans. i think he deserves credit. this is not ease tee to sell to his own conference. i don t know whether we ll get there. we re going to lose a substantial number of republicans. we re going to lose a substantial number of democrats if we what we hear about the bill is that it doesn t go after any of the special interest tax breaks that democrats would like to see help finance an end to the sequester. democrats don t like the sequester level. we feel this is an austerity budget that is doing damage to the economy. i think if we had an economy, if we had a budget that was making an investment in infrastructure and jobs and we were able to pass the president s jobs bill, our economy would have fully ....
Writing a piece on this and that so that the republicans faced a loss with regards to the government shutdown, very unpopular, but fiscally, they re winning the fight. they re keeping washington to spending levels that the democrats really don t want. so in the long-term, even if nothing comes out of this budget committee, it is going to be a win for the republicans. that s the part that i want to sort of understand here, so we had the whole dispute over the shutdown and the default and some coverage of the fact that democrats were saying you know, what was lost in this is democrats were saying, look, we don t want the shutdown, we don t want the default, but you can have these sequester level, spending levels for now. and that s where we are. we still have sequester level spending levels, there are additional sequester cuts that are scheduled to kick in starting january 15th. more cuts, more to the tea party side wants. the question, daphne, is if you re going to replace the seque ....
We need to pass what we call a cr, which is a budget bill at a level that i detest really, it s too low with the sequester level, but we need to pass that so we can get to a real budget committee and begin to talk about how we move forward. that s what we need to do. we have compromised quite a bit so we need to put the bill up. we need to ask the speak tore have some courage, i know that there are enough republicans to vote for that bill. we need to do that and move on. barbara lee, thank you for joining us tonight. is the democratic party is as united we have ever southeastern it, the republican party is as divided as we have ever seen it. ....
We need to pass what we call a cr, which is a budget bill at a level that i detest really, it s too low with the sequester level, but we need to pass that so we can get to a real budget committee and begin to talk about how we move forward. that s what we need to do. we have compromised quite a bit so we need to put the bill up. we need to ask the speak tore have some courage, i know that there are enough republicans to vote for that bill. we need to do that and move on. barbara lee, thank you for joining us tonight. is the democratic party is as united we have ever southeastern it, the republican party is as divided as we have ever seen it. ....