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Came and went in the spring, and so forgive me, we have what is known as the sequester. so the deep cuts that everybody used to say was a bad deal, now republicans kind of decide they like them, so they seem to be here to stay, which brings us to the government funding bill that the house keeps passing and the republicans keep rejecting. the democrats keep telling republicans they should just suck it up and pass. that clean funding bill is for $986 billion. 986 billion you see right there. how signal small is that number? only a few billion more dollars that paul ryan proposed, the same that w...

Washington. keep that in mind if the republicans do back down on obama care, if they do end up accepting that clean funding bill and letting the government reopen. you may here rush limbaugh or jim demint call him a traitor, but if the government opens for business it will be operating on republican terms. that game is already over and republicans have won it. joining us, congresswoman degette, thank you for your time. i want to pick up that point. this is sort of the forgotten fight, if it is forgotten, it is because the fight really has not been waged. but we talk so much about how republica...

Republicans have been able to reduce the size and scope of the government through the sequester. what sort of is forgotten here if the government reopens, the sequester is not forgotten, did your party make the mistake by not having that fight as part of the shutdown deal? >> the problem is, the republicans have insisted on putting this completely irrelevant issue, one that they know the white house wouldn't compromise, one that they know that the senate wouldn't compromise on. and that is the affordable care act. has nothing to do with the budget. and so now a lot of people are saying well, y...

Issue. >> don't you think it's a little hypocritical though when the ryan budget, i can give you numbers, does decimate programs that were to keep veterans off the street, help them. decimated those programs a few months ago and making those votes and now demagoguing the issue. >> the sequester was president obama's idea. the sequester is having a worse effect on defense and veterans than anything this paul ryan budget that has not been implemented has suggested. >> was the sequester actually supposed to be implemented? they love saying -- >> it was agreed upon to be something both sides disli...

Is basically absolutely no new revenue. do you think of those talks reopened again in any way, do you think anything is going to be different in terms of the republican bottom line which is absolutely no new revenue, which sort of blows up the idea. >> well, actually the people i talk to on a private basis think the only way out of this is a grand bargain. because if you look at the effect of the sequester on the national institutes of health, on all of the programs that we care about for our districts, head start for the kids, and for seniors programs, the only way out of the sequester which ...