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Work on our budget. the house has done a budget every year since i've been speaker. the senate hasn't done a budget for four years. they have committed to do a budget this year, and i hope that they do. and out of that process maybe, maybe we can find a way to deal with our long-term spending problem. >> i'll ask you what my white house colleagues in the press corps there have asked the president. do you bear any responsibility for a failure to find agreement? >> there's no one in this town who's tried harder to come to an agreement with the president to deal with our long-term spending proble...

Issue of whose idea it was of the sequester was when i disagreed with him on, but i could see how honorable people could disagree. i was trying to explain to him from a substantive point of view that the idea that the president of the united states was moving the goal post by asking for the type of balance of tax reform that raised revenues, which speaker boehner himself you know had called for, as well as long-term entitlements together to get rid of the sequester was not only not moving the goal post, that was the whole idea of the sequester. and i think that email was cordial. it was substa...

Bill to replace the sequester came out of the president's own budget. not all of them, but most of the changes. >> stuff that you put in there, you knew democrats wouldn't support, and it's exactly what you say senate democrats are doing now, putting in things that the republicans won't support. >> the house passes a bill. the senate can pass a bill. if we disagree, we go to conference and work it out. >> what happens now? what do you think the impact of all of this is? the president is saying there will be a ripple effect in the economy. there be a growth cut, a loss of 750,000 jobs. >> why h...

Years to go before the next stop discriminating on the basis election, and so how they go up of race, a sentence structure or down in the polls in a given that offended many people not unlike what we heard from day even though they're really low right now is not really the scalia. issue. but the idea that states should be offended because they're to me the issue is whether this included is one of the most becomes, as you described it, hollow, stale, and baseless the new normal. if we just kind of move past the arguments. section 5 obviously is sequester now and go, okay, it's preclearance. sec...

>> 174 of your members in the house voted to support it at your urging. you both agreed to do this. >> the president demanded it at the 11th hour in july of 2011. because he didn't want to be inconvenienced by having another vote on the debt limit before his re-election in 2012. and as a result, with the agreement that senator reid, senator mcconnell and myself had that didn't have the sequester, he would not accept. so he demanded that we find a way so he could avoid a second debt limit vote before his re-election. that's where the sequester came from. >> so you say that the house has twice p...