vote for chris van holland which is the budget resolution in the house of representatives. >> so do you have any thought as far as why not one democrat voted for that budget? i'm just trying to figure out why it is still in the planning phase and not a working budget. >> maria, maria, the president put out a detailed budget line by line. you add it all together, and the congressional budget office looked at the detail budget and found that it actually brought the deficit debt down and then stabilized it. in the house, when the house was voting the ryan plan, the democratic alternative, which we supported and felt was the budget that closely resembled our budget, was put forward by chris van holland. republicans try to put up a mock budget of ours. and that type of balanced plan, it will be something that both democrats and republicans are voting nor a future. >> gene, thanks for being on the show. bill? >> back we go to the markets now. where were we? ten minutes left here. the dow has been hovering near the lows. the nasdaq is down 55 points. down #.8%, back below 3,000. the worst perc

i want to bring in congressman chris van holland, democrat from maryland and ranking member of the house budget committee. good to see you. >> good to see you. good morning. >> senator susan collins has asked the secret service this question -- could they have planted bugs, disabled weapons or in any other ways jeopardized the security of the president of our country? is there any other previous of previous misconduct by these or any other agents on these other missions? how concerned are you? do you think these are leg legitimate questions? >> absolutely they are. we need to get to the bottom of this right away. as you indicated, there are inspectors on ground right now in colombia asking the questions. the head of the secret service has recalled all the individuals that may have been involved in this. we need to get to the bottom of it right away both for the reasons senator collins and others have expressed, also because it's unacceptable conduct, the alleged conduct here. >> what should happen? the white house says iz hat confidence in the secret service chief. let me play this. >> t

i want to simply say chris van holland should get credit for proposing a budget. it's always tempting in the minority not to propose a budget and just to criticize. i think it's important to recognize leaders for stepping up and actually making proposals. we did this when we were in the minority on the budget committee. i think that's a good process. that leads me to the final conclusion which is the senate has announced for the third year in a row for over 1,000 days they're not going to bother doing a budget. budgeting is one of the core fundamental rudimentary aspects of governing. if you are going to govern, going to lead, you must budget. we have one of the most predictable economic crises in this country coming. it's a debt driven crisis. so we have an obligation not just a legal obligation but a moral obligation to do something about it, to preempt this debt crisis. our budget, the path to prosperity, is our attempt to take these core principles and preempt a debt crisis. we think the key components are to get spending under control, reform our entitlement

we supported in the house of representatives was the house budget resolution put forward by chris van holland, which democrats rallied around. included none of the fairness on how we would raise revenues on those over 250,000 and it's a political gesture. they put that out. >> and, of course, bill that interview found its way to the twitter verse. >> imagine that. >> lack of support for spending budget. bill, after i interviewed gene sperling, i wonder if the goal is to eliminate the loop hols, in other words, yp not just eliminate that? why come up with the buffett rule to tax 30% on anybody making a million dollars which is going to include small businesses, which is going to prohibit them from creating jobs, why not take out that interest rule. >> i think you're overthinking it. we're in the midst of the campaign of 2012. >> ah, politics. >> it's all about the politics right now. the administration knows that the buffett rule will never pass through congress. >> you asked him that yesterday. >> this is only a way of drawing a line in the sand on the issue of taxes and economic fairness aga

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chris van holland is the ranking member of the house subcommittee elections. he wants to know.h you. >> so you will convene a congressional forum to look into these super pacs. what do you want to find out? >> well, carol, we just had a forum yesterday to investigate these pacs and what we find out should trouble all americans which is tens of millions of dollars of secret money are now flowing into various campaign efforts and our view is that voters have a right to know who's spending all this money. this shouldn't have secret money in these campaigns, and so i have a piece of legislation called the disclose bill that very simply says when you're spending gobs of money to influence voters, you should tell the voters who you are, who is spending it. a very simple idea and it used to be a bipartisan idea, senator mitch mcconnell always said we need more disclosure. unfortunately, at least as of right now they're not supporting this bill and i hope he'll change his mind. >> you spoke in the spirit of bipartisanship, but i'll ask you a bipartisan question. we know they've raised

chris van holland from maryland making an important point.at basically because of the way, because of a number of things, the expiration of the bush tax cuts, but also changes to the alternative minimum tax, which congress is constantly passing patches to, the so-called medicare dock fix which also is a way of avoiding what are statutory diminishments in the amount of pay that doctors gets from medicare, which are also habitually fixed. which if congress didn't do anything, if you took it away, if you let it expire, the deficit fixes itself. which is an important grounding, that sound byte for all deficit conversations you hear. about taxes, what i was saying before about filing them. why, why is the system feel so complex? the conservative argument for this is because governments screw up everything it gets its hands on. this is the tried and true post office arguments. the dmv argument, terrible service because it's not the competition of the free market, blah blah blah. i could imagine a better, simpler system of doing taxes and tax simpli