confinement. matter, itectional makes things worse. solitary confinement will drive you crazy. with the majority of cases being overturned, it may pose a have futureazard in the for those that will be turned over to general population or in the case of people that may well be released into society. robertur guest is dunham, executive director of the death penalty information center. deat >> the house budget committee

and the senate but a jacket -- budget committee are making an effort to markup budget resolutions which set topline spending levels which govern the appropriations process or could. it's a little uncertain where they are going to end up. hashouse budget chairman been working on a budget resolution for a long time. it's unclear if there will be enough support among democrats in the house to actually pass this on the floor.

that could be the last week in march, that's what he is shooting for. the thing about these budget resolutions, there's no chance the house and senate would agree on a budget resolution. what's likely to happen in the house and senate is that the chambers would deem spending limits. it's a deeming resolution. get deem spending limits to the appropriations committees then could bring appropriations bills to the floor under those limits. that's what we are looking at right now. >> what are some of the key federal spending areas that you will be watching? we will be watching all the different areas. here, so you have in the current year, spending limits.

drop by $126e billion. because of that, leaders are working on a deal that would raise these spending limits. so that appropriators could write realistic spending bills. in the background behind crow stores, you have talks going on to come up with another budget deal. in the meantime, the appropriators have to come up with spending limits that they can use to at least start writing the bills. it's not clear what those spending limits are going to be. really, at this point, the spending limit is the key issue. if the appropriators have rough spending limits, they can start writing bills which would be similar to the bills that they wrote this year. >> how you think the president's acting budget did?

how is he received in his first hearings on the hill? >> he was received well. this was his first time doing this as acting director of the office of management and budget. it got a little contentious at times. there were times when he was interrupted repeatedly by lawmakers who were trying to make points. one of the interesting things that he said is, in terms of reducing the deficit, the big is theof rising deficits entitlement spending, the mandatory spending, that's the biggest part of the federal budget. ,he other part of the budget discretionary spending, which covers the fence and all the cabinet agencies. that spending has not been going up. and has actually been going down. the interesting thing that russ vote said, we are concentrating

on reducing this nondefense discretionary spending because we think in a lot of cases it is wasted. >> you talk about the budget limits, the spending caps. how with the possibility of additional spending requests from the white house on disaster aid or additional border wall funding affect the process? funding,ms of disaster it looks like the senate will act on a bill to provide disaster relief at the end of march. that's the plan right now. wall,ms of the border that's a key issue. request for ap's certain amount of money for the border wall, border fence, that led to a recent shutdown, as we know. amountasked for the same in this coming year that he did not get this year. he wants a lot of that money to

come from the military budget. be a bigis going to contentious issue. it's even possible a could lead to another shutdown. how they getnclear around this issue. again, he argues for a certain amount of money. congress disagreed. there was a shutdown. they reached an agreement. he is now coming forth and asking for the same amount of money again this year. >> the senior budget reporter, you can follow his reporting at rollcall.com and on twitter. he's tweeting. thanks so much for the update. >> thank you. >> c-span's washington journal, live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. sunday morning, a republican strategist and a democratic

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