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This country. >> house speaker paul ryan selling his top legislative priority, but concerns from top democrats are raising questions about the future of the bill. former congressman chris van holland serves on the budget and appropriations committee and he joins me now. chris, thanks for joining us. what are the reactions of what you've seen? we see they have not sunset that corporate tax as was originally proposed and there is a cut in the top rate for some taxpayers, i should say. >> that's right. what paul ryan said was accurate. the reality is we now know why they kept this behind closed d...

Cut a single special interest tax break to help reduce the deficit, right? they don't get rid of the corporate jet loophole. they don't deal with the loop hole that hedge fund managers benefit from. they didn't close one of those special interest tax loopholes. it's there because of some powerful lobby interest. instead they're cutting education for kids and increasing costs to seniors squeezing families. when speaker boehner and senator mcconnell say they found the truth and they care about working families the reality is they're hitting working families really hard in this budget including i...

Scale to pitch in more. if you ask nothing of them and romney and ryan don't want to ask for one more penny for the deficit, what it means is simple math. you hit everyone else that much hat # harder. hits seniors on medicare. student and education. guts our infrastructure investments. that's why an independent group said their tax plan would raise taxes on middle income families in order to finance another windfall tax break for people like romney. so that's their plan. >> congressman, there appears to be some issue over the weekend with your party. from o'malley to others, not being on one a...

Senatorial campaign committee and the two most vulnerable states perhaps are dean heller out in nevada and jeff flake out in arizona. dean heller came out and said he's not prepared to vote for the kbil. so for you, ultimately he could be one that actually squashes the senate bill. in terms of where the democratic campaign is going to be putting financing for you, what do you want to see out of dean heller and some of these places where potentially the very people that you want to beat in 2018 to help get the democrats the majority could also be the ones who help kill this bill. >> we want peo...