up with the budget that we came up with it's a sound budget congressman ellison the progressive caucus congressional progressive caucus has offered a balanced budgets good budgets progressive budgets every year for years that i've been doing this this show in my radio show and and yet they have not and they all make sense to me what i don't get is why they haven't gone more viral or more national with with the the big democratic party the rest the rest of your colleagues what's and if thoughts on that well you know we take responsibility for that we feel it's our job to get the word out i want to thank you for having me on but we're going to have members of the progressive caucus you know talking to the american people through the media between now and and till well after the budgets battles happen in the votes happen next week we are making a real launch on that and you know what the truth is that you know we're going to take no matter whose fault it is we're going to take responsibility for curing the problem by talking to anyone and everyone who wants to talk about the real budgetary challenges f

budget on wednesday we talked with minnesota congressman keith ellison co-chair of the congressional progressive caucus about the c.p.c. you can occur congressional progressive caucus is budget unlike ryan's plan the c.b.c.'s budget to work back to work budget puts the interests of middle class americans first proposing economic stimulus not punishing austerity is the best way to tackle unemployment and reduce the deficit so is the obvious one of the main differences between the two budgets and which plan will prevail in congress let's ask paul ryan's fellow wisconsin representative congressman markey ok and welcome and i think it's great to have you with us so. how would you describe paul ryan's republican budget and then contrast it with the one that you guys you know first of all it's a bunch of recycled ideas that the public's already rejected in the last election people don't want to go down the path of austerity this is the same path to austerity only on steroids because they're going to try to solve the entire deficit in ten years gets better cade guts medicare once again from hides lower tax ra

with every year progressives propose a budget and it's never taken seriously the congressional progressive progressive caucus we had. jan schakowsky on this program last year and she laid it all out we had the charts and graphics look like it made perfect sense. why and in fact when you do the polling on this most americans agree absolutely with the progressive caucus is proposals why doesn't this stuff yet picked up by the media and and wouldn't paul ryan's budget this is austerity this is what they're doing to greece and spain right now is this going to plunge us into greater poverty ok well i'm going. i think it's really surprising after the american public voted on the ryan plan essentially in the in the presidential election last year they saw the women and you know people of color wholeheartedly rejected these policies of cutting out a lot of white men a lot of boys men and it's really surprising that paul ryan basically learned nothing from from that and continues to support balancing the budget on the backs of folks who need these programs the most chris what a ball room or. well i think it's interes

automatic last week we told you about the congressional progressive caucus is back to work budget proposal and also spoke with congressman ellison and poke him and talk with them about how this budget has gone largely overlooked in the national debate over a federal budget but not any more tomorrow the full house of representatives will vote on the progressive caucus is back to work budget back to work budget eliminates the federal deficit in ten years and in the same amount of time creates a thirty one billion dollars surplus the budget creates seven million new jobs in one year eliminates corporate tax breaks for big oil and closes tax loopholes for transnational corporations and unlike paul ryan and the republicans austerity budget the back to work budget prevents cuts to social safety net programs like medicare medicaid and social security finally the budget invests extensively in our nation's infrastructure while promoting clean energy sources to back to work budget is the only budget being considered the truly gets to the roots of america's economic woes. and helps to strengthen the

enter the congressional progressive caucus right here in the u.s.a. it contains 73 members all of them democrats except the socialist bernie sanders from vermont who is independent. the cpc wants a 49% federal income tax rate on top earners. they want half. and they don't want many deductions for those folks. also the congressional progressive caucus wants even more government spending. 2.5 trillion more, on, quote, job creation. another 2.2 trillion on things like science, energy, the environment and education. also the cpc does not want to cut entitlements. and, wants to give unemployed americans 99 weeks of cash compensation. nearly two years. the question is what does president obama think of the congressional progressive caucus? my opinion, he likes it i don't think the president believes that crew is fanatical because they want what he wants. by the way, the far left kooks do want to cut one thing, defense spending. they want to bring that back down to 2006 level. somewhere in iran is cheering. there comes a point when americans are going to hav

why would obama do that particularly when you look at the polling out of the congressional progressive caucus is budget which is a genuinely progressive budget that also balances the budget over to a ten year period is far far away preferred by the average american including most republicans. well i think the answer to that is because it is you have to ask who has politicians in general who does this president and specific answer to do they really care about where the public stands for not look you've got a long time movement of millionaires and billionaires on wall street who have been trying to cut social security trying to privatizing social security trying to effectively privatized medicare they see big profits in that and they also see doing that as a better alternative for them personally then closing tax loopholes or raising taxes so it's been a long time and so i think when you ask the question why is president obama putting forward social security cuts why is he putting forward a republican asked budget plan the answer is i think because he's not answering he doesn't feel like his co

this week the congressional progressive caucus put the back to work budget before this body. the back to work budget is based on a simple concept. the number one problem facing this country is not the deficit, it's the need to improve the economy and create jobs. and the single best way you can address the deficit is to get people back to work. the back to work budget did just that. it would have created seven million jobs, brought unemployment down to 5% within three years and it would have still trimmed 4.4 -- trimmed $4.4 trillion the deficit. what it did is invested directly in the very things that create jobs. in infrastructure, in police and fire, in teachers and in other services that are vital to this country. because we have been told by the congressional budget office the single entity that is a nonpartisan agency that both parties relie heavily on, that this year, one-half of our deficit is caused by economic weakness and three quarters of oh they have did in 2014 is caused by economic weakness. what is economic weakness? that means unemployment and underemployment

congressional progressive budget. we'll talk to representative keith ellison who is the co-chair of the congressional progressive caucus shortly. and also there is the president's budget which has zero chance of being passed. and the president seemed to signal his resignation to this budget quagmire. >> ultimately it may be the differences are just too wide. if their position is we can't do any revenue or we can only do revenue if we gut medicare or gut social security or gut medicaid, if that's the position then we're probably not gonna be able to get a deal joining us now top to does the budget battles on capitol hill we have congressman keith ellison of minnesota. thank you for joining us this evening. >> thank you. >> can you describe your budget and how that compares to some of the other budget proposals out there in congress. >> the budget is called "back to work budget." that says it all. it's about back to work. our budget, it's how many people it puts back to work. now debt and deficit are issues important for the outyears, and because we're bringing people back to work we'll address that issue. we get $4.5 tr

those offered up by the progressive caucus in the house of representatives than half of those polled favored the balancing act plan proposed by the progression of the congressional progressive caucus shockingly forty seven percent of republicans polled preferred the house progressive approach instead of the across the board cuts that have been proposed by the republicans in cars according to business insider the results show that not only is america not the so-called centrist country like is commonly believed. but that the policy ideas most attractive to american voters are usually those that are most often put on the back burner receiving little attention or publicize the from the corporate media or to put it very simply very few americans like the ideas and policy proposals coming out of the republican party and from a few of the conservatives americans know which ideas will actually help our country and they disagree with the bizarre republican position that only those things that help the billionaire class in corporate america are going to help working people they say that history repeats itself and it seems like this is an example of considering the conside

members of the congressional progressive caucus writes, "the executive branch claim of authority to depriveens of life and to do so without explaining the legal basis for doing so, sets a dangerous precedent." let's talk about where we are in the war on terror in general and the administration's controversial drone policy in particular. democratic strategist joe trippi joins us from austin, texas. and republican strategist karl rove is in new york. gentlemen, thank you for being here. joe, first to you. after the back and forth we saw with rand paul and his filibuster and the administration's response, where do you think it stands and where is it going politically? >> politically, look, the american people by and large are for the drone program. 56% of the country favors it. 68% of republicans favor it. 58% of democrats. independents are split. they are the only ones split 50/50. on the drone program, itself. going after enemy combatants on foreign soil. where the big issue is, and where the plurality of americans have questions about using drones against the american citizens even on forei

i rise on behalf of the congressional progressive caucus to enhance calls made by our colleagues today to talk about the budget produced by the house republicans. we have a number of members in the progressive caucus who will be addressing various components of the budget. we'd like to start out by one of the freshman members from the great state of california, mr. mark takano. i'd like to yield some time to r. takano from california. mr. takano: i'd like to thank my friend, the gentleman from wisconsin, for yielding me time this evening. earlier today i was joined by 22 of my fellow freshman democrats in sending a letter to the distinguished gentleman from wisconsin, mr. ryan, in requesting specifics for his 2014 budget. as freshmen members, we had hoped mr. ryan's budget provided areas where both parties, democrats and republicans, could find common ground. was ad, what was presented a document that was vague. how can we begin to negotiate when we don't even though what we're negotiating? and where mr. ryan is specific, it's in areas we knows that democrats won't agree. one from "the

enter the congressional progressive caucus right here in the usa.ks do want to cut one thing, defense spending. they believe that's what the far left wants, a collapse of the entire capitalistic system. >> joining us now is one of the authors of that legislation, congressman keith ellison who coaches the congressional cau s caucus. good afternoon, sir. >> good afternoon. >> bill o'reilly has labeled several charges at you, sir, and your caucus so i must ask you now, have you once or ever been a cook or do you support the appeal of american capitalism? are you a lunatic? >> i have not now nor have i ever been any of those things. >> thank you very much, sir, for answering that. i think we are fully satisfied with that response. to be fair, your budget faced resistance from those in your own party. >> trats that's true. >> on the other hand, i would suggest that's a budget switch from like paul ryan's for three years has failed but for three years is approved by virtually every single republican in the house. but are you discouraged at all at today's

the congressional black caucus focus og -- focuses on maintenance for public transport and highways, the congressional progressive caucus focuses on making work pay. but here's the story that i think is under the underlying ryan budget a good friend of ours,ing of, we work together and the underlying premise, i am tired of raising up the generational fight. just because the greatest generation fought in world war ii, are we to say to our children and fwrirn you know what, we don't want to burden you when the military calls you, when your nation needs you, we don't want to burden you there's no way to prompt what our grandchildren and children will have with this budget other than the fact that the democratic budget invests in people and when you invest in people an jobs and education -- ms. slaughter: i yield the gentlelady an additional minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized. ms. jackson lee: when off preschool program, when you have programs that transition women out of their homes after raising children into jobs, when off program that allows young people with a college degree to get a j

that alternative is the budget proposed a congressional progressive caucus which would add $2 trillion in new spending to create jobs and pay for it by raising taxes on the wealthy and corporations. the entire discussion about budgeting has been anchored on the right by all the attention of the ryan budget has gotten. even though it is billed as the democratic alternative this is for. the murray budget is in some ways closer to the ryan plan when you take the progressive proposal into account. check this out. the ryan budget would cut nondefense discretion airin funding, education transportation, other social services, 16% over ten years. according to the citizens for tax justice. end -- other end of the spectrum, progressive caucus budget which would increase that spending by nearly 28%. you may expect that murray's center left democratic budget would fall somewhere around halfway between the two where you would see the red line or slightly towards the progressive end of the spectrum. look at where it falls. murray budget, which cuts a little less than 1% of nondefense discretionary f

also the congressional black caucus and the congressional progressive caucus will be introducing budget. it's possible a ryan version could be introduced in the senate. >> what is likely to happen in the senate this week? >> it will be democrats making the case for the patty murray budget. convince someto democratic senators who may not support that budget. they will have to sell it to democratic senators as well as republicans. no republicans are likely to vote for the budget. they will be calling for more spending cuts, no tax increases, balancing the budget sooner. >> republicans say this to be the first time in four years they have agreed to put forward a plan. why is this your difference? are a number of different things. there is a law that was passed that the members of congress will not get paid unless the have a budget resolution. , the debtwo years limit law basically established discretionary spending amounts, so you technically did not need a budget the last couple of years. also, democrats in the senate have been getting hammered for not introducing a budget resolution. the

it's not just the congressional progressive caucus that says this. our congressional budget office says that 3/4 of the deficit we're going to see in 2014 is caused by underemployment and unemployment. . it's not a new made up spending crisis, it's the need for jobs. the back to work budget makes a real commitment to job creation. creating seven million jobs and reducing unemployment to 5% within three years. it invests in education, police, firefighters, teachers, infrastructure, and end the job-killing cuts of the sequester. instead of balancing the budget on the backs of the middle class and neediest, the back to work budget as the back of america's middle class. it does it while responsibly reducing the deficit by $4.4 trillion. i urge my colleagues to vote for the back to work budget. the chair: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from new jersey. >> thank you, mr. speaker. recognizing we can create the jobs and prosperity by not raising taxes at the same time, i yield now three minutes to the gentlelady. the chair: the gentlelady fr

the congressional black caucus', progressive caucus' budget, the republican study committee budget, which in ten years like paul ryan's. and chris van hollen's budget as well. meanwhile, the haggling continues in washington. the charm offensive of the president, he was being honest, wasn't he? he really was trying to charm the republicans. yet, brit hume was on last night with bret baier on his former program and said whether it worked, probably not. here is brit. >> it was a remarkably sudden conversion by the president from an attitude of, you know, up yours, i don't need you, to i want to get together and talk with all of you. of course, the republican leaders in congress who are smart enough not to act skeptical and felt this was fine and good and the more the better. but i think in the end, you have to ask yourself this question, brett, and it is simply this: is it politely president obama will make any major concessions on the entitlement programs without more new taxes? and is it -- the other side of that is, will republicans be willing to go along with more new taxes to get reform

the house will also probably hold a bunch of different votes on budget from the congressional black caucus and the progressive caucus and republican study committee. we might see ones like that to compete with what budget chairman ryan has put forward. host: and timing-wise, in terms of recess coming up, they have to get this done by next friday , this funding deal on the government budget, correct? guest: you mean for the 2013? host: correct. guest: yeah, that's through the 27th. but with so much going on, we do expect this to happen. we could be surprised. there could be some agreement worked up to maybe put some money back in -- you were talking about amendments to help offset the sequester a little bit. it's possible you could see some shifting around of money. what you're not going see is what obama wants, which is let's turn some of the cuts into taxes. but at any rate, we think early this week we'll have a clear sense of getting this done t. may have to go back to the house if the senate does amend it, and then the house i think would quickly pass it. host: stick with us real quick. senate majority whi

in this rule we make in order a congressional black caucus substitute budget, the progressive caucus substitute budget. a substitute budget by the ranning member of the budget committee, the gentleman from maryland, mr. van hollen. we make in order a budget introduced by mr. mulvaney from south carolina that tries to capture the essence of what the senate is working on right now and we make in order a budget produced by the republican budget committee, all of those exist as an alternative to the budget produced by the budget committee. i have the great pleasure of sitting on the budget committee. what you see here in my hand is the budget committee report. we produce this on march 15. it's bound, it's published, they did a nice job, it's been proofread, the minority has had a chance to add their views. that was march 15 we produced this budget. but as we sit here today with march quickly leaving us, what we do not have yet is a budget from the united states president. i only point that out, mr. speaker, to say, i understand that it's hard to produce a budgetism know because i produce

we might see a handful of budgets from the congressional black caucus and the progressive caucus andhe republican study committee. we might see ones like that to compete with what budget chairman ryan has put forward. >> host: and timing wise in terms of recess coming up, they have to get this done by next friday, this funding deal on the government budget, correct? >> guest: you mean for the 2013 -- >> host: yes. >> guest: yeah, that's due the 27th, but with so much going on, we do expect this to happen. and, you know, we could be surprised, there could be some agreement to maybe put some money back in, you were talking about amendments to help offset the question quester a little bit. -- sequester a little bit. what you're not going to see is what obama wants which is let's turn some of the cuts into taxes. but at any rate, we think early this week we'll have a clear sense of getting this done. it may have to go back to the house if the senate does amend it, and then the house, i think, would quickly pass it. >> host: pete, stick with us real quick. senate majority whip dick durbin

congressional black caucus. the other direction is a more regressive, mean-spirited path, as set forth by the g.o.p. budget. the c.b.c. budget is designed to create progress for the greatest number of people possible. here in america. the g.o.p. budget endorses the view of prosperity for the few. the c.b.c. budget takes a balanced approach to dealing with the economic situation we find ourselves in here in america. the g.o.p. budget balances the budget on the backs of the most vulnerable in our society. the c.b.c. budget will create jobs for americans, the fwmplet o.p. budget will cost us hundreds of thousands of job. two very different visions for where we need to go here in america. a balanced approach has four different elements, first invest in the american economy, second raise revenue by closing corporate loopholes that are unfair, unjest -- unjust, and in many instances, unconscionable. tax rates for corp. -- tax breaks for corporate jets, tax subsidies for big oil companies that are making record profits. tax incentives for american companies to ship our jobs overseas. the c.b.c. budget will close these wasteful corporate loopholes. third, we look

progressives have nowhere else to go. this is good. the left wing, after me, i moved to the middle, though we know he has not. >> dana: one group is not happy. congressional black caucusd to president obama they are unsatisfied with the number of african-americans who have been appointed or not been appointed to the cabinet. do you think they have cause for grievance here or is this just a little bit annoying? >> bob: i do. it's not just the cabinet. it's a lot of sub cabinet positions who are in the white house itself. look at the white house. i've not seen a white house lacking that many blacks as i have seen in this one. you can argue this is the first black president so it covers up a whole lot of things but if i were the black caucus, and i know most of them well, they are not the most mellow people in the world. i would think they would say to themselves at least give us one or two cabinet secretaries. >> eric: don't go crazy. >> bob: i'm not -- >> eric: no. isn't it racist to say there should be more blacks in the cabinet because of the color of their skin not because they're qualified to be there? >> greg: isn't it racist putting black people in a cabinet? >>

the congressional black caucus budget, let's raise spending $1.99 trillion and have a tax or thee of $2.9 trillion progressive caucus budget, that one really takes the cake, let's have a $4.65 trillion spending increase only to be outdone by $5.683 trillion tax increase. this is what they're saying. ignore the deficit. ignore the economy. all the answers lie in washington, take more from hard-working small businesses. take more from families. spend it in washington. and oh, by the way. we don't have a crisis. that is scare mongering. you know what? try telling that to our children and grandchildren who are guaranteed to get a lower standard of living. try telling that to the struggling workers, the families and people in poverty who aren't cutting it in this economy. balancing the budget. helps us promote a healthy economy to create jobs and get people back on their feet again and that's exactly why we are proposing and passing this budget. i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: all time has expired. the chair: the gentleman from texas, mr. brady and the gentlewoman from new york, mrs. maloney, will

progressive politician. when i worked on capitol hill after the black panther party, there were 22 black congressman at the time. i worked with the congressional black caucus and it worked on capitol hill and at work for congressman john conyers for a while. and, of course, with congressman -- is a, who see right now congresswoman barbara lee holds. barbara lee work with the black panther party. you have to know that in understand. understanding. she would tell you proudly she was. congressman bobby rush was part of the leadership of the illinois state chapter of the black panther party. he's a united states congress and. these are two people that come out of our ranks, and there's a lot of other people there. right now you'll have eight or nine congressman are basically progressive voters, congressman in the house more progressive type voters. we need 400 progressive types to get rid of stop and curtail the average corporate money rich class who's screwing over all humanity, including african-american people. so our goal of objective is about humanizing the world, you know, not some revenge. were not talking about revenge politics. someone should understa