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Soon, i m very concerned about the direction we re headed. we could have a possible downgrade easier, if the plans finally passes. tom, on your side. is it a fact that you have committed that you would not vote for anything that looks like this deal? or is it just unacceptable to you? is this a commitment to your voters? help me understand why it is, nothing is going to make you say yes to this? actually, i mean, we did vote for cut, cap and balance, both tim and i are advocates. and their solution doesn t match the enormity of the problem we face as a nation. if one is inclined to or raise the debt limit, both of those, it will accomplish that goal, but if the goal is to reduce our debt load, and our dependency on china, then these are not proposals for that. we ve got to have significant spending cuts today and caps on federal government spending and most importantly, we need a balanced budget amendment ....
Hill. i know you ve had an excepti exceptionally long day, hosted fox news sunday and about there all day and done about everything there is to do. i hope you can get rest now that they re not going to have a vote tonight. get some sleep. i think you ve earned it. thank you. thank you, bret baier from washington. back to capitol hill we ll talk to a couple of tea party republicans, and congressman tom graves of georgia. both voted against the boehner bell and they join me now from capitol hill. i m going to call you tim and tom, and i know both of you, rather than being more formal and call you congressman, let me start, tim, with you, you have not voted for even the boehner bill. you said you do not see yourself coming to grips with one of these proposals that are out there. tell me why not. well, i don t think it does enough. we have a very deep problem and it s not the problem that we don t borrow enough, but it s that we spent too much. with the outside credit rating agencies ....
Have twin sons, tim and tom, they are 9 years old, and they have understood from a very early age how much alike our family is to other families, they know that we, you know, participate in the same kinds of traditions, we take them to church, worry about them getting to school, we participate in our communities, and they know that there are politicians and people on the other side who would like to tear their family apart, who would deny them the security of mine and my spouse s relationship, and it is a very real fear and concern that they grapple with, and we have to reassure them all the time, you know, that our family is strong, that we share the same love and commitment that other families do, and that, in fact, the american public is changing and the president has said clearly that this is a bad law and that congress today is showing the american public the truth about our families. ....
Symbolic trauma that our kids face every single day when they hear this anti-family rhetoric from the opposition. the truth is is doma is anti-family, doesn t do anything but harm my family and does nothing to make the american family stronger today. jennifer, tell us how you address or deal with your sense of the stigma that children might be picking up within your own family. you know, the truth is, is i have twin sons, tim and tom, they are 9 years old, and they have understood from a very early age how much alike our family is to other families, they know that we, you know, participate in the same kinds of traditions, we take them to church, worry about them getting to school, we participate in our communities, and they know that there are politicians and people on the other side who would like to tear their family apart, who would deny them the security of mine and my spouse s relationship, and it is a very real fear and concern that they grapple with, and we have to reassure ....
you know, the truth is, is i have twin sons, tim and tom, they are 9 years old, and they have understood from a very early age how much alike our family is to other families, they know that we, you know, participate in the same kinds of traditions, we take them to church, worry about them getting to school, we participate in our communities, and they know that there are politicians and people on the other side who would like to tear their family apart, who would deny them the security of mine and my spouse s relationship, and it is a very real fear and concern that they grapple with, and we have to reassure them all the time, you know, that our family is strong, that we share the same love and commitment that other families do, and that, in fact, the american public is changing and the president has said clearly that this is a bad law and that congress today is showing the american public the truth about our families. ....