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American people are. they don't care if there's an "r" or a "d" after your name. they would like elected officials to get this budget under control. when you're talking about stopgap measures and if it's the republicans having the right conversation, the right debate even if it's contention among themselves because the democrats won't, that's exactly where the debate needs to be. a few weeks ago, the gao came out with a report saying there is an up to $100 billion annually wasted in redunndant programs within the american people. the american people know their elected officials can do better t...

Talk about it, it's called hr-1. it would fund the government for the rest of this fiscal year through the end of september. it has reductions in spending of $61 billion. which on a $3.7 trillion budget is not much. in fact, if you had a $10,000 budget in your home, by the way, 40% of that would be on your credit your credit card, but you would be slashing spending according to democrats by 28 bucks. so it's not a huge cut. we ask what can republicans do? the house has put out its proposed budget for the rest of the year. there were more votes for that in the democrat-controlled senate than th...

Those stopgap measures, we need to get together and we need to come up with a compromise, and, we need to keep the government moving again. what happened last week, in the house, is not the way to use a meat clever to chop at programs that are very important for food safety, for air safety, for security, and things like that and we have silly things like eliminating the president's teleprompter to not having repairs at the white house and these may be feel-good things but they don't really do it. domestic... spending, domestic spending is only 16 percent of the budget and we can't do that. i h...

Really more like a hundred billion, i'm not sure that adds up. democratic friends in the senate they are only going to cut $41 billion. that a good thing and especially since the senate is taking a break all next week, leaving them a few days to take up the bill before march 4th because that is when the stopgap measures and the government is shut down. over the weekend, rick santelli said this. >> if the country was ever attacked like 9/11. we all respond with sense of urgency. what is going on on balance sheets throughout the country is the same type of attack. >> glenn: let me show you. the ...

Billion, i'm not sure that adds up. democratic friends in the senate they are only going to cut $41 billion. that a good thing and especially since the senate is taking a break all next week, leaving them a few days to take up the bill before march 4th because that is when the stopgap measures and the government is shut down. over the weekend, rick santelli said this. >> if the country was ever attacked like 9/11. we all respond with sense of urgency. what is going on on balance sheets throughout the country is the same type of attack. >> glenn: let me show you. the perfect storm. oh, there it...