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enormous economic crisis but unemployment is a consequence we have to deal with if i do nothing else, madam spear, i want to bring that down to 8% and pefuyore." is the anything that the two of you could have done to have hievhat goal? >> well, first of all, let me say that t president when he sent... >> rose: the majority in the congress... in the house and in the senate. >> but yeed 60 votes in the senate. >> rose: i know. >> youeed 60tevos in the senate and that's an aner t almost every question because we have sent them a jobs bill over and over again. >> rose: and i guess when mr. brn waelecd to succe senator kennedy that was a wakeup call for where things were. >> well it also prevented us from getting 60 ves for so of these jobs bil. but i think it's... >> rose: what would have you have said, though? that the quen. >> here'shat the president did do. the president sents audget 100 days exactly after his inauguration the house and the sena passed the president's budget. it w a luesased budget about what'simportant ur country and how we allocate our resources, it was to reduce taxes for the m