you're going hear from congressman javier becerra, democrat from california on a conference call earlier today. >> first question from daniel new howser. your line is open. >> i want to ask about the gop budget. you touched on it a little bit that is supposed to include a provision that paul ryan authored with ron wyden and purportedly, this is something that the republicans are going to say has some level of bipartisan support. do you think that the ryan/wyden part of this gop budget means that it's bipartisan? >> we'd like to take that. >> go ahead, javier. >> okay. i can start. first, let's recognize that the democrats have united behind the affordable care act. and we believe that not only is the savings that the affordable care act which it will bring over the years, not just to medicare and medicaid, but to health care generally in this country, snag is good, but something that should be built upon. the ryan budget, as you're aware, has called for the end of medicare as we know it. it would end the medicare guarantee. it would shift the cost of health care over to seniors. some est

representative javier becerra is a democrat from california. just a moment ago you heard from representative jan schakowsky from illinois. joining us live on the phone from capitol hill, emily ethridge. she's following this story from cq. thanks very much for being with us. >> you're welcome. thanks for having me on. >> this is really the start of a message war we're going to be hearing from democrats and republicans. a week of events in which they're going to try to commemorate or criticize this legislation. what can we expect specifically? >> that's right. it's already started. there's not only been conference calls like the one you just played but a flurry of press releases. today republican senators were on the senate floor having a colloquy about the problems they see with the health care law and the damaging effects they think it will have. i've seen some democrats on the house floor beginning to give speeches. long. >> let's drill down one of the key issues that we're going to be hearing about from the republicans in the house, and that

. >> she's a democrat from illinois she was joined by california representative javier becerra in a teleconference on the health care issue but also taking questions about the ryan budget and medicare. there was a reference to senator ron widen a democrat from oregon who has been working with congressman paul ryan. today in the huffington post this op-ed from senator widen saying preserving the medicare guarantee why i've been working with paul ryan people on both sides of the aisle want to know why a progressive democrat is working with the author of last year's house budget on medicare reform. it's a rather lengthy op-ed. this conclusion this week congressman ryan will be unveiling the house republican budget. i do not know what the details of the budget will be. i did not write it and i cannot imagine a scenario where i would vote for it. i do know because we worked together paul ryan now knows more about the medicare guarantee and protecting seniors from unscrew up louis insurance practices than he did before. if that is reflected in this budget this year as someone who's been a fighter for se