>> reporter: janesville has been hurting ever since g.m.d many here say we need to tackle the national debt but is now the best time to do it? >> if he wants to start with his budget right now, he will do nothing but hurt the people that live in this city. >> i'm sure he believes it's the best way to get us out of this mess, whether we all agree with it or not. >> reporter: and paul rian knows better than most-- >> those opposed say no. >> reporter: these days agreement is hard toçó come by. cynthia bowers, cbs news, janesville, wisconsin. >> mitchell: overseas, syrian security forces opened fire in the southern city of dara to disperse a funeral procession for some of the reported 25 protesters killed during a major demonstration in the city yesterday. it was the bloodiest day of syria's three-week uprising. israeli airstrikesÑi killed five palestinian militantsñr in gaza today. a total of 19 palestinians have been killedçó in the past three days in israeli retaliatory strikes in response to an attack on an israeli school bus on thursday.

paul ryan is a congressman from janesville, wisconsin. i know him, i like him. we worked together for almost a year on the deficit commission. he's a bright, hard-working young man and chairman of the house budget committee. he has proposed a plan for the budget for the remainder of the next five to ten years. it's not a plan that i agree with but i respect the fact that he put the time in to prepare it. the reason i don't agree with it is that unlike the bowles-simpson commission, the budget plan that ryan has proposed does not deal in a comprehensive and fair fashion with the challenge of the deficit. here's what i think and the commission believed. if you're serious about the deficit, you need to put everything on the table, everything. what congressman ryan has done on the republican side is to say we are not going to put on the table any savings from the pentagon over the next ten years. mr. president, that's hard to imagine. $500 billion a year-plus we spend at the pentagon, no savings, while we're cutting programs in every direction. we can't find a way t

if they'd agree to the five minute talk time you would've seen in janesville and la crosse and all other communities that they would've put money where their mouth is and i'm not. so i think you're right about the story accurately explains what was proposed at the time. but in terms of what they actually did, their actions do not represent -- their actions did not coincide with statements in the statewide union. >> did you ever consider dropping your collective bargaining demands? did you ever consider that? >> i was a county elected official for eight years. we talked about shared sacrifice his nye county faced a crisis. i gave over the features $370,000 for my personal salary. to make a personal sacrifice. during that time, i repeatedly met with the union and asked them to make modest changes, modest changes in pension and health care contributions. when you write and ask them to cover workweeks to avoid massive layoffs and every time the response i got was go-ahead, lay for 500 people often don't care. that's when i talk about protecting the middle class it's not just middle-class tax

durbin: madam president, paul ryan is a congressman from janesville, with is business, and i know it because it's -- wisconsin, and i know it because it's right across the worried about from illinois. i have relatives and friends who live in the area and i like paul. i served with him on the bowles-simpson deficit commission. we spent a lot of time together. he's a very bright person and has been give in' big assignment as chairman of the house appropriation. he and i have different views of the world of poll -- politics and as you can imagine, we have different views and i respect him for his intelligence. but he's laid out for a plan now for house republicans, a budget plan, which is very specific in the goals that he set for america. now, there are some things that paul and i agree o. we agree -- paul and i agree o. we agree on the fact that we are facing a deficit crisis in this country. we cannot continue to borrow 40 cents for every dollar we spend. it's unsustainability. and we borrow the money from countries like china. china is a nation that is hard-charging and competing wi