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Insurance market. you're now going to have essentially a voucher that doesn't keep pace with the rising cost of health care so the seniors will have to eat those costs. so what we're seeing now may end up being a minor skirmish compared to what happens when they -- when they make demands on the full budget. >> congressman chris van holland, i hope you guys can come up with some kind of a deal before midnight. >> i hope we can too. and the american people would obviously be much better served if we're able to do that. >> thanks, very much, congressman. and now our series on aç stronger amer...

5 million families count on these clinics. this is really insane as far as i'm concerned. >> maybe it is. let's take a look at what speaker boehner said today about what's holding up the deal. let's listen to the speaker. >> all i can tell you is that almost all of the policy issues have been dealt with, and there is no agreement on the spending level. and we're working to try to get there. >> majority leader harry reid said the only obstacle as senator boxer just said is the republicans wanting to defund women's health services from planned parenthood. let's listen to senator reid, the leader...

Is a trillion dollars in savings. that's well worth having a fight about to determine what's the spending level of this country. >> peter, let me ask you about the right track/wrong track number. other than the top line approval rating for the president, there's probably not another number that the white house watches more. 63% of the country said this country is on the wrong track. i believe that's one of the lower numbers we've seen during the obama presidency. to what do you attribute it and how much of a dark cloud is that for the obama administration? >> savannah, it is a very dark cloud ...

From alabama is the ranking member of the budget committee and sits on the judiciary committee and is our guest now. was that the right thing to do, senator. >> i believe it was. it was a good step. it reduced $4 billion in spending over this two week period, and sets us up for further debate. it's at the percentage and the rate that the house had set when they said they wanted a $61 billion reduction in spending between now and the end of the fiscal year september 30th. we're on track to reduce that spending level by $61 billion. and it's just the beginning of a long series of battles. we don...

Current spending level, but the decision is who will make the deepest cuts? >> we can't afford to go down this path time after time. we need a long-term solution to our problems. republicans should immediately come to the table and start negotiating with us on a long-term solution. >> where is the senate democratic proposal? where are they on the question of how do we fund the government for the balance of the year? karen tum iulty is a report for the "washington post" and i understand they are being cagey about sitting down at the table with the democrats? >> well, the republicans say and d...