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Figured things up. >> reporter: lawmakers are not entirely on vacation. they're back in their districts talking about the impact of the sequester. in boston, funding for health research would be reduced. >> we have got to stop the sequestration cuts, we can't strand our researchers. >> reporter: in indiana, they could slow production driving up the cost of your main course. and in san diego, about 30,000 military jobs would be in jeopardy. >> i'm as frustrated as you that they sent us home. >> reporter: insiders say staffers are also negotiating, even with their bosses away. >> i believe at th...

Party. >> well, let me defy mark's advice and lead with sequestration. >> sure. in the news. >> i appreciate it. you see what's happening with the debate right now which is that republicans who several months ago were talking about the sequestration was akin to the apocalypse in governing the military. are now more and more accommodating, willing to accept the sequestration cuts to the military. the rand paul of the party, cuts are better than no cuts. to your point about rubio, it seems to me, the republican party internalized lessons from 2012 in we need to fix problems with hispanics. wheth...

The president and the speaker and the republican leadership. >> not that i'm aware of. and this was the president's ideas on sequestration, the republicans, we've put forward a replacement, to replace the sequestration cuts with other types of cuts. we've put forward a proposal >> north korea says it's tested a nuclear device, a mini device. south korea confinger the third nuclear test. concerns that the test that the test began after an explosive-like 4.9 magnitude areg was registered, where north korea's conducted previous tests. south korea's defense ministry raised its military alert level...

The president and the speaker and the republican leadership. >> not that i'm aware of. and this was the president's ideas on sequestration, the republicans, we've put forward a replacement, to replace the sequestration cuts with other types of cuts. we've put forward a proposal six weeks ago that passed the house. we put together a proposal six months ago that passed the house. >> why doesn't he want to just pick up the phone. pick up the phone and call him, look, this is the job. and why we send everybody to washington. and the job and-- >> if he's unwilling to call you, you call him, right? ...

Down. how long? >> not quite eight years. >> yeah, may of 2005 is when it started. >> a seven-year reign. >> and it ends on february 28th, according to we'll be following this. to washington now. members of congress remain focused on deficits, spending and how to head off the looming sequestration cuts poised to kick in early next month. in separate interviews on sunday, house minority leader nancy pelosi and majority leader eric cantor laid out the economic dividing lines. >> what we need is growth. we need growth with jobs. and if you have spending cuts, education of our children and other...