Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20101219:19:10:00
You're the shuttle-ready projects guy. there should be more investment in infrastructure. should there be more of that before we focus on bringing down the deficit? >> we can do both. let me explain what i mean. the omnibus or the -- i'm sorry to sound like a senator here, or a wonk, but in the spending proposal for next year, we freeze discretionary spending. freeze it. freeze it. we think we have to start by -- all those things were tails on them, long-term impact, we should not be spending in those areas and we should be freezing or reducing. on those issues that have no long-term deficit -...