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Legal caps in the law that says government agencies cannot spend over a set amount of money. and if they breach that amount, across-the-board sequester comes in to cut that spending and you can't turn that off without a super majority vote. we got that in law. >> we got that in law. we've been fighting for that. fast forward to now and paul ryan is thinking the opposite. now he is saying he doesn't like the idea. and it's the president's problem, the president's own making. >> it's the president who first proposed the sequester. >> everybody hates this upcoming made-up crisis, which is good, b...

Coming up -- congressman paul ryan has been a supporter of the automatic military and domestic cuts known as se questions stration for most of his career in the house as he made clear this interview last year. >> what conservatives like me have been fighting for for years are statutory caps on spending, legal caps in law, that says government agencies cannot spend over a set amount of money and if they breach that amount across the board sequester comes in to cut that spending and you can't turn that off without a super majority vote. >> but now it appears that, surprise, paul ryan is changing...

Seems to be as he put it, he got a super majority vote. he got that vote first time around in the senate. that's how he put it. he said it already passed the senate with a super majority of 60 votes, now it deserves the same up or down vote that was cast on welfare reform, children's health insurance, the bush tax cuts, he's making a reference to when the democrats were in the minority and the republicans used reconciliation to push through certain bills. >> completely. it's just not supportable from an historical stands points. even robert byrd said to use the reconciliation budget would be a...

That's closer to fair than not? >> we shouldn't let anyone kick the can down the road as the president said. everyone should be held accountable. in congress we need to see not just democrats who really go to work on this, but republicans as well. we know they're out there. we know there are votes in the senate that would want to do something. right now we need courage on the republican side in the senate. unfortunately right now the senate has become the graveyard for good ideas. any vote that doesn't get to 60 in a house of 100. you need a super majority vote. it makes it very difficult to g...

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