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Often of -- >> of an increase. it's not a real cut. the washington cut. >> absolutely. so, you know, many people say we need to go to a zero base budget. you know, i think that, you know, we need to start looking at why can't we go back to a spending level, i don't know, 2006, 2007 so that we can start getting things under control and furthermore, we're not really seeing a slowdown of the growth of the federal government. i mean you still have a huge bureaucracy with federal government employees and we'll talk about the v.a. later on. >> but do you get the sense of what the american people, i ...

The same debate from the beginning. >> you say there is a chance of finding compromise. >> develop is the first thiam they passed the budget for fiscal year in normal ordinary course. in 2008 they passed it for half a year, hoping president obama would get elected. the republican budget is $22 billion less than the spending level. down 1.6% -- 0.6%. democrats want to spend $3 $3.7,815,000,000,000,000. $162 billion or 4.5% more than spending this year.

Problem. i hope that happens when gets back from israel. >> chris: before you deal with the budget you have to pass a continuing resolution before march 27 and going on recess at the end of this week, to keep the government running otherwise it shuts down. the question, senator durbin, is will the senate pass a cr, a continuing resolution that keeps spending at $984 billion which is what the spending level is of the house cr including the sequester cuts? >> chris, when i left, washington, on thursday we had 99 amendments pending to the continuing resolution. the budget for the federal governme...

Problem. i hope that happens when gets back from israel. >> chris: before you deal with the budget you have to pass a continuing resolution before march 27 and going on recess at the end of this week, to keep the government running otherwise it shuts down. the question, senator durbin, is will the senate pass a cr, a continuing resolution that keeps spending at $984 billion which is what the spending level is of the house cr including the sequester cuts? >> chris, when i left, washington, on thursday we had 99 amendments pending to the continuing resolution. the budget for the federal governme...

>> not much, if any. besides, the republicans have ideological reason. part of the republican principles. they want to reduce spending. so does the public. >> bret: juan? >> i have a different point of view. >> bret: not surprising. i am struck by this. >> the polls i have seen, show clearly people are asked who is to blame for the catastrophic situation in washington they say it's the republicans. the latest poll here is 43-34 republicans. when you ask what would you cut, even if it's just republicans what would you cut, would you come down to the republicans say we think we would cut maybe f...