mr. buchanan today. he assaulted two staff members. going to hear him and get a plea on him and make a decision and see if he'll give us any comments on it because he's on the psych unit, it means i have to go to him and hear the case. they'll bring him out in cuffs and we'll do it there. >> but joe buchanan might have different plans. >> hey, joe, we want to take you back here in the back. >> i ain't going. >> come on, joe. >> i want to plead guilty. >> you don't want to come out, then? >> no. >> let me talk to him for a second. buchanan, you don't want to change your plea or anything? do you want to give a statement? >> i'm guilty. >> okay. i'll come back and let you know what we did, then. >> you can just write it down, all right? >> okay. i accepted his plea of guilty. i'm going to give him a year in seg starting on the 19th. and he's a lifer. so there's nothing else that we can really do to him. so now i'm going to go back and tell him what i did. mr. buchanan, you know you got a year in idu, right? i will tell them know that you

mr. buchanan? >> what new tax, pat? >> are you going to let me respond or what? >> yeah, if you're going to respond. >> i'm going to respond. republicans believe in their heart and they have made a pledge and they don't know of economic philosophy where you raise taxes when the economy is flat on its back, al. >> how are you raising taxes to eliminate tax cuts. that's not raising taxes. >> you take the executive airline industry, here jet, cessna and others. you hammer them with taxes, which is what you're doing. that industry will go overseas, just like the yachts an boat industry went overseas. and put another tax on them. >> pat buchanan is having a fitful for private airplane makers and yachts. his own words, not mine. i mean, my heart is really bleeding now. and to cancel tax cuts is not raising taxes bill. >> first of all, you know, i think, pat has written a 5 lot of books. pat is master of the english language. he knows damn well he isn't tell the truth when he says the president wants it raise taxes. he does not want to raise taxes. pat cannot tell one f

mr. buchanan: mr. speaker, i rise today -- burebbureb mr. speaker, i rise today for america's financial future. we're at a time when we need to make every effort to save our nation's credit rating. the rating agencies have said th raising the debt ceiling is not enough. while i prefer the cut, cap and balance plan, the budget ctrol act vote today and the balanced budget amendment vote tomorrow is the best remaining approach to reduce spending and help avoid a downgrade. mr. bucshon: we can reform today. however, the bill isn't perfect. i wantedore and frankly all of our constituents deserve more. the reality is our friends on the other side of the aisle won't allow it. with years of reckless spending by the federal government instead of making tough choices to address our spending problems , the other side wants to raise taxes on the american people, to finance funding washington, d.c.,'s spending spree. in addition they want us to give the president a blank check to get him through the 2012 election. well, that's not going to happen. the un

mr. buchanan -- >> i want to thank all the panelists. we're talking about the debt ceiling and getting people back to work. indian farmer we find ourselves in today, do you think that raising taxes on individuals or small businesses makes sense in terms of what is going on today? to any of you feel that makes sense as a policy decision in washington? >> certainly on a near-term basis, we need to be careful with anything we do that would raise taxes. one of the most important things we can do for the country is to get things so that for the long term we know where we will stand. we learned in 2001 that permanent changes have the most affect. about individuals and small businesses. does it make sense to raise taxes on individuals and small businesses? >> to the degree that we want to take a shot at fixing our structural problems, we will have to raise taxes on someone at some point. there are short run consequences doing it right now. >> i have been in business and third -- for 30 years. remember what happened then and we ended up with a b

mr. buchanan: mr. speaker, i rise today -- burebbureb mr. speaker, i rise today for america's financial future. we're at a time when we need to make every effort to save our nation's credit rating. the rating agencies have said that raising the debt ceiling is not enough. while i prefer the cut, cap and balance plan, the budget control act vote today and the balanced budget amendment vote tomorrow is the best remaining approach to reduce spending and help avoid a downgrade. mr. bucshon: we can reform today. however, the bill isn't perfect. i wanted more and frankly all of our constituents deserve more. the reality is our friends on the other side of the aisle won't allow it. with years of reckless spending by the federal government instead of making tough choices to address our spending problems , the other side wants to raise taxes on the american people, to finance funding washington, d.c.,'s spending spree. in addition they want us to give the president a blank check to get him through the 2012 election. well, that's not going to happen.

mr. buchanan: mr. speaker, i rise today -- burebbureb mr. speaker, i rise today for america's financial future. we're at a time when we need to make every effort to save our nation's credit rating. the rating agencies have said that raising the debt ceiling is not enough. while i prefer the cut, cap and balance plan, the budget control act vote today and the balanced budget amendment vote tomorrow is the best remaining approach to reduce spending and help avoid a downgrade. mr. bucshon: we can reform today. however, the bill isn't perfect. i wanted more and frankly all of our constituents deserve more. the reality is our friends on the other side of the aisle won't allow it. with years of reckless spending by the federal government instead of making tough choices to address our spending problems , the other side wants to raise taxes on the american people, to finance funding washington, d.c.,'s spending spree. in addition they want us to give the president a blank check to get him through the 2012 election. well, that's not going to happen.

mr. buchanan. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida. mr. buchanan: mr. speaker, we need to cut spending today and reduce the deficit. and avoid the dangerous prospects of putting america for the first time in default. the bill before us today will accomplish that without raising taxes on the american people. with unemployment being what it is today in terms of looking at small businesses, it will not raise taxes on small businesses who are the job providers either. i support the budget control act because the time is now for congress and the president to do what's in the best interest of the american people. our economy is struggling. our current national debt is over $14 trillion and we're adding $4.5 billion a day to our deficit and debt. $188 -- let me break that down, $188 million per hour to our deficits and debt, $4.5 billion a day. this reckless pattern of borrowing and spending has put our country on the road to bankruptcy. washington needs to show the american people that we can deal with these challenges today and in the future. i urge my colle

mr. buchanan: and we must finally reduce the debt. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from new york rise? without objection, the gentlelady is recognized for one minute. mrs. maloney: madam speaker, i have never been more concerned about our nation's economic security and future. just this week moody's warned that the u.s. may lose our top notch double-a credit rating if we fail to increase our nation's debt ceiling. economists say that if we fail to do so it will put not home our national capital markets in turmoil but the capital markets internationally in turmoil. it will hurt american wages and jobs, the stock market will tank , a letter signed by hundreds of senior companies executives and organizations agreed and it said, and i quote, treasury secretary securities influence the cost of financing, not just for companies but more importantly for mortgages, auto loans, credit cards and student debt. and yet some members of this body have said that found in circumstance whatsoever will they ever vote to rai

buchanan and h. ross perot. and they were also taking a fair amount of heat for the -- for mr. bush's appointment to the supreme court of clarence thomas. so she had a certain amount of concern. but then came the clinton and things started out kind of on a strange footing. a magazine concocted what became known as the great cookie controversy. some of you i can see nodding your heads. you remembered this. the question was, who baked the better chocolate chip cookies? was it barbara bush or was it hillary clinton? and hillary clinton sort of dismissed this and said, i'm too busy to bake cookies, you know, let's forget about this. and mr. bush said she thought the whole thing was forgotten. and then a few months later, the same magazine ran a story saying that in a taste test, people liked hillary clinton's cookies better. and barbara bush, well, that's really interesting because that's not my recipe. well, i mention it because even though it seems like a silly thing, perhaps, it garnered all of a sudden some very serious comment from reporters and columnists. and this also gave

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mrs. o'leery's cow. just kidding, of course. you are a patriot in your own strange way, pat buchanan. >> america first. >> oftentimes it has been. >>> the most powerful man americans probably never heard of, grover norquist, with the anti-tax republicans are hog-tied supporting his position on the debt. let's talk to one of the most powerful men in america. when we come back. grover norquist, when we come back in a moment. you're watching "hardball" on msnbc. >> in a bit of you a surprise this there a fluly financial bureau. passing over elizabeth warren who was the driving force of course behind the bureau's creation and has supported passionate by many on the pro resive left. with warren's strong opposition and talk she could run for the senate -- heard it myself up in massachusetts -- against the new senator, scott brown. we'll be right back. [ dr. ling ] i need to get the results from the m.r.i. see if the blood work is ready. review ms. cooper's history. and i want to see katie before she goes home. [ male announcer ] with integrated healthcare solutions from dell, every patient file is where dr. ling needs it. now she can