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Evaluate everything if a federal bill repealing the state and local tax deduction becomes law from new jersey senate president, mayor deblasio wants his millionaire's tax, california has high taxes already the state of california and they're saying we're re evaluating everything because i'm just saying that what's happening in washington is concerning the hell out of me, mr. sweeney said, do you expect we're going to see an exodus out of these high tax states and pressure the governors and the local politicians to lower taxes or pull in spending? >> congressman: that's up to them. i'm in a sta...

His health care program was going to hurt a lot of his supporters and a budget proposal that might hurt a lot of trump voters. >> i think it's important that it's not a budget that will end up being the budget. many obama budgets got zero votes from a democratic senator so that's how these things roll out. it's an odd document, attempting to get savings from the discretionary programs and ignoring what republicans have been talking about for decades which is the real driver of our spending problems which is the health care stuff and social security. republicans have been on this for a while. i...

I think washington is going to work better over the next four years than it has in a decade. >> let me take the under on that. i agree with you about chuck schumer. i was his finance chair in 1998. one of my closest friends. i like paul ryan. i worked with him on auto bailout. serious guy with serious ideas. the question is and problem is can he control his caucus? as we sit here today, since he became speaker, they've passed, i think, two significant pieces of legislation. highway bill and raised spending caps to deal with spending problems. there are 11 appropriations bill for the fiscal yea...

Speaker, john boehner, threw in the towel on efforts to attach other items to the bill. just 28 republicans joined 193 democrats in approving the so-called clean debt limit increase. boehner was unable to get all of his colleagues on the same page, although many republicans want to avoid the kind of political brinksmanship that led to the government shutdown last fall, the latest example of the house speaker getting stymied by conservatives in his own party. but boehner tried to shift blame away from his republican colleagues to president obama. >> you won't negotiate, you won't deal with our ...

From now on and will take an avalanche safety course. just when you thought we had reached bipartisan bliss senator ted cruz reappears as the spoiler. cruz said he'll filibuster a house passed bill to raise the debt ceiling. his plan is at odds with his fellow republicans. they want to avoid a filibuster and any accusations of obstruction that could come with it. cruz's vow came after the measure passed through a narrow vote. house speaker john boehner spoke about his party's frustration with the process and president obama. >> listen, you all know that our members are not crazy about voting...