lori montgomery from "the washington post" and humberto sanchez from "roll call" after talking to hal rogers the chairman of the appropriations committee. you both asked a lot of questions about how much more there was to cut in discretionary spending. it sounds as though, as the chairman says, not much. but do the members of the republican caucus agree with that? >> i think there is attention there. several of the feshmen came here with the -- freshmen came here with the avowal of cutting spending. they said they won't come back unless they do that. it is something the committee it is something the committee will have to work on if they

performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] hal rogers is, kentucky's 5th district, is our guest today, thank you for being with us today. >> thank you. >> joining us is staff writer lori montgomery, fiscal policy reporter for "the washington post," and humberto sanchez, staff writer for "roll call. "let's start with lori montgomery. >> you have had con -- been confronted with constant drama with the funding of the government. can you talk to us about the c.r. that just passed yesterday where there was a bit of drama. we were going to go with one number we thought we set last year, but no, that wasn't good enough, and now we came back to where we were in the first place. >> well, the budget control agreement passed, which was in the aftermath of the debt ceiling, the back of last year. overall spending is set for fiscal 13 at $1.37 trillion. well, the senate would have been marking that up to $10.47. we would have been automatically in disagreement with all of the bills. but we have gone ahead and passed through the committee bills, and s

lori montgomery from "the washington post" and humberto sanchez from "roll call" after talking to hal rogers, the chairman of the appropriations committee. you both asked a lot of questions about how much more there was to cut in discretionary spending. it sounds as though, as the chairman says, not much. but do the members of the republican caucus agree with that? >> i think there is attention there. several of the feshmen came here with the -- freshmen came here with the avowal of cutting spending. they said they won't come back unless they do that. it is something the committee will have to work on if they are going to do that. >> they have promised to cut spending, but as the chairman said, they have reached the bottom of the barrel on the parts that's easy and vague, and some various agencies people don't think about very much. judging from what's happening on the campaign trail, they are quite ready to make a very explicit case about medicare and certainly not social security, which is the single largest program. so getting down to 15% of g.d.p., i think spending is something like 24%

satellite corp. 2012] >> coming up at 6:00, watch the interview with the house committee chairman hal rogers. we talked about the resolution to fund the government for six more months and the mandatory spending cuts to go into effect in january. >> i think that people really like to see where politicians views have shifted. was mitt romney in 1994 campaigning for welfare reform? for abortion? we want to see what he was doing during his 2002, 2007 campaigns. and there is an element or people think that this is incredibly interesting. >> a try to think, why is and instead of frequency between both issues. >> running for state office for the first time, rod blagoevich. in terms of serving under him? >> a trailblazer and a hero of mine. >> the best way to describe it is the viral part of the internet. >> the reporter from buzz feed, tonight at 8:00 on "q&a." at the general administered -- they testified about steps that hoped the gsa would take to avoid wasteful spending and prevent further scandals, like the 2010 las vegas four day conference. also testifying was the acting administrator, who b

roger hedgehog -- >> he's changed his name to topiary shantz. >> stephanie: he would get mocked less? >> yeah. >> stephanie: keith in milwaukee, you're on the "the stephanie miller show." hi keith. >> caller: hi. mooks. happy birthday, hal> caller: tell you about paul ryan and his palinesque going rogue and somebody mentioned that he may be going back to congress. i don't think he may be going back to congress. >> right. >> stephanie: how hilarious would that be if he lost both? >> caller: he won't have to complain about not going. think about this. the thing ta has helped him go back to congress time after time besides weak candidates is the fact that there's no tv market in the first congressional district. so this time, the tv ads will be run by the obama campaign. >> stephanie: isn't that wonderful, eddie? >> isn't that wonderful eddie? >> stephanie: by the way, was he basically implying that marriage equality is not a human right? >> it is not an american value. >> stephanie: or a human right. >> because our rights are defined by nature. >> the things you talk about like traditional marriage and entrepreneurship -- these aren't values that are indicative to any one person or color or creed or color. these are ameri