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Canceled white house tours. they say these students coming to washington should have the right to see the white house. they don't seem to care all that much when you have cuts to head starts, that are happening across the board because of sequestration levels. same thing with research grants. for instance, the nih cannot accept 200 clinical patients, including 30 children with cancer, because of the government shutdown. that's obviously tragic. but there's a broader issue at play here, which is that if we fund the government at the levels that everyone assumes we'll end up being funded at, the...

Priorities, but in this case we've seen all kinds of unrelated policy proposals tied to the budget. will this be a new way of doing business in washington, using any fight as a way to ram your agenda through? >> that's certainly what conservatives in the house through. but i think the sleeper story of this fight is something you just hit on, which is that the spending battle is what this is ultimately about. a continuing resolution is about how much the government should spend when the deadline expires. democrats have already ceded temporarily to sequestration levels, to lower levels, you know...

Challenged by the senate. if there is a compromise to be offered, i have been looking for it. >> uma: what about delaying obamacare for a year for all people as part of the debate over the tet ceiling for example? >> if we delayed implementation and enforcement and the tax collection and everything that has to do with the obamacare for a year, and funded our government in the period of time, that is something that is likely to be discussed there. i'll see what my colleagues say. my vote is hold our ground. because whoever blinks in this is the one that loses. and i think fear of a government s...

Of the house majority, they have majority in gerrymander district. they want dodd/frank but immigration reform and they aren't giving them that. that's one example. the other thing to keep in mind here, it's one thing to look at this whole circus and laugh and see the civil war and say this is really bad for them. on the other hand there is sort of a weird strategic soundness to boehner's strategy. it seems like on a tactical level he's failing and his decisions are moment to moment. at the he said of the day he's good at using ideological intransigence and his weak speaker to demand policy re...

Never is when you get the job done. but the american people have gone to the polls in 2010 and 2012. they've sent a resounding message and reject obama care. every polling i know, as well. this is in response to the american people. i think that the republican conference is, i know they had said last week we want to do this. we insist we do this. and now the house has spoken. that's what we're directed to do constitutionally. >> but you know the senate's going to throw it back. so you know, really what's the point? it's a frustration for most americans that their government is essentially and ...