we put this rivlin ryan plan together which had that occurred i would have been, i would have thought this is a pretty good thing. it was rejected by the elected democrats. i was also worried about the dash so there's a lot of good work here. i'm going to take the good work here and i'm going to add rivlin ryan what i would do differently on defense and taxes and i'm going to introduce that and pass it through the house of representatives which i did the next year. i did it for years in a row. we have past four years in a row budget plans to balance the budget. [applause] >> before you go on, before you go on i want to underscore something. that is that the house passes important legislation. the republicans are not a party of no. the house has been passing legislation. your roadmap has been passed and it deals with entitlement reforms and getting our country on a stable fiscal footing and if it doesn't get picked up by the senate and of course is not picked up by the white house. so the idea that ours is a party of no is simply wrong. ours is a party which is packing legislation putt

and alice rivlin is a democrat, and we put this rivlin-ryan plan together as an amendment which had that occurred, i would have been very -- you know, i would have thought this is a pretty complete package. it was rejected by the elected democrats on the commission. i was also worried about the deep cuts in defense that was in it. so the way i looked at bowles-simpson was there's a lot of good work here, and so i'm going to add rivlin-ryan, what i would do differently, and i'm going to introduce that and pass it through the house of representatives the next year, which i did four years in a row. we've actually passed the budget and paid down the debt -- [applause] >> before you go on, i just want to underscore something that paul just said. that is that the house passes important legislation. the republicans are not the party of no. the house has been passing legislation. your road map has been passed, and it deals with entitlement reforms and getting our country on a stable fiscal footing. and yet it doesn't get picked up by the senate and it's, of course, not picked up by the white hou