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60 minutes. >> said you're going to bring up a spending cutting measure. >> every week. >> every week. >> every week, so can you give duz. >> we don't need 2000 page bills, we don't need thousand page bills, how about one page. >> one page a week. give 60 minutes a little preview, what's your first one going to be? >> well, how about we start with cutting-- i'm going to cut my leadership budget 5%. i'm going to cut all the leadership budgets by 5% and cut every committee budget by 5% and every member is going to see a 5% reduction in their allowance. now, altogether, that's 25, 30 million dollars and likely would be one of the first ones. >> we should start with ourselves. >> i hate to say that 25 million isn't a lot of money. >> we're going to start somewhere and we're going to start there. >> jon: 25 million isn't a lot of money.
>> you said you're going to bring up a spending cutting measure. >> every week. >> every week. we don't need 2000 page bills, we don't need 1000 page bills. how about one page? >> one page a week. give "60 minutes" a little preview, what's your first one going to snb. >> well, how about we start with cutting congress? i'm going to cut my budget, my leadership budget, 5 percent. i'm going to cut all the leadership budgets by 5 percent. i'm going to cut every committee's budget by 5 percent, and every member is going to see a 5 percent reduction in their allowance. now, all together, that's 25, $30 million likely would be one of the first votes to be cast. we should start with ourselves. >> i hate to say $25 million isn't a lot of money, but -- >> we've got to start somewhere and we're going to start there. bill: that interview airs sunday night. lou dobbs is with me. good morning to gliew good