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

alice rivlin is a democrat and we put this rivlin ryan plan together as an amendment, which had thaturred, i would've thought this is a pretty complete package. it was rejected by the elected democrats in the commission. i was also worried about the deep cuts in defense that was in it. the way i looked at bowles/simpson is there's a lot of good work here. i'm going to take the good work and add a sickly rivlin ryan. what i would do differently on defense and taxes and introduce data and pass it through the house of representatives and the next year and i did it for years in a row. we have past four years in the realm a budget plan to pay down the debt. [applause] >> before you go along, i just want to underscore something that paul just sad and mad is that the house passes important legislation. republicans are not the party of no. the houses than passing legislation. your roadmap has been passed in a joseph entitlement reforms and getting our country on a stable fiscal footing and yet it doesn't get picked up by the senate and of course not by the white house. so the idea that ours

. >> as we put it together, alice rivlin and i teamed up to have an amendment to bowles-simpson to do medicare medicaid reform which is the biggest driver of health care entitlements, as the democrat that is clinton's budget director, and as an amendment, which had that occurred, i would have thought this is a complete package. i was worried about the deep cuts and defense that were in it. i looked at bowles-simpson and there was a lot of good work here. i will take the good work here and at what i would do differently on defense and taxes and introduce that and pass it through the house of representatives and i did it four years in a row. we passed four years in a row, to pay down the debt. [applause] >> before we go on, that is that the house passes important legislation, the republicans are not the party of no. the house has been passing legislation, your roadmap has been passed and deals with entitlement reforms and getting our country at a fiscal footing and it doesn't get picked up by the senate. ours is the party of no, that is simply wrong. ours is passing legislation, putting