most republicans and moderate democrats joe manchin and ben nelson voted for it, but it was not enoughans say it's time to change. >> no more blank checks. democrats have been in charge of the senate and the white house for three years. they've had their chance. they have made it worse. we must do better. >> reporter: a leading fiscal conservative says the american people should be angry with democrats and republicans for doing nothing since the debt agreement last august. >> we didn't eliminate one program, we didn't do one oversight hearing on the waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government. no wonder america's disgusted with congress. >> top democrat says some of the republican outrage isn't fair. that today's increase pays for debt already incurred. >> what troubles me greatly is many of the same senators who are going to vote against the debt ceiling voted for the spending. they voted to spend the money knowing we didn't have it. >> meanwhile, the government watchdog overseeing the $700 billion financial bail-out from 2008 say taxpayers are still owed $133 billion that compan

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you've had one democrat that's signed on already, that's joe manchin out of west virginia.more democrats? >> i think we can, and i think we will. and i commend joe manchin for being the first on his side of the aisle to step over and work with us on this. this is an issue that is not either democrat or republican. this is something we know we need. we spend about $500 billion a year on oil imported from foreign countries, and most of that oil comes from parts of the world some of which are not very friendly to the united states. and we need this project, we need the jobs it'll bring, and we need the energy. bill: ted poe on the house side near the houston area, his idea is to go ahead and construct the pipeline with the one exception of that sensitive area that's been argued about in nebraska, the aquifer protected by environmentalists at the moment, also this administration. is your legislation lined up the same way? >> you know, i don't believe so. i believe ours would just approve it as is. i'd have to look at the bills to make sure. bill: all right. we will see whether

that was senator mark kirk, republican from illinois and senator joe manchin, the democrat from west virginia. they're supposed to sit together. senator mark kirk suffered a serious stroke over the weekend. senator manchin said he will keep his seat open for him. other than that, other than this kind of genuine friendship and symbolism we don't see much of, we're going to see the top up, top down. >> brooks: the buddy system didn't really work. it's not as if partisanship went away. i thought it was a good thing. i thought i saw scott brown and john kerry sitting together. i could be wrong about that. but.... >> ifill: scott brown, the republican from massachusetts and john kerry the democrat. >> brooks: there's a big of a jovial show business aspect. there's sort of a pep rally after that. so when you're in the room, the atmosphere is actually pretty good no matter how partisan they are in real life. >> ifill: let's get back to what we expect the president to say. what does he say? we've already heard prebuttals not only from romney but john boehner the speaker of the house who will

that was senator mark kirk, republican from illinois and senator joe manchin, the democrat from west virginia. they're supposed to sit together. senator mark kirk suffered a serious stroke over the weekend. senator manchin said he will keep his seat open for him. other than that, other than this kind of genuine friendship and symbolism we don't see much of, we're going to see the top up, top down. >> brooks: the buddy system didn't really work. it's not as if partisanship went away. i thought it was a good thing. i thought i saw scott brown and john kerry sitting together. i could be wrong about that. but.... >> ifill: scott brown, the republican from massachusetts and john kerry the democrat. >> brooks: there's a big of a jovial show business aspect. there's sort of a pep rally after that. so when you're in the room, the atmosphere is actually pretty good no matter how partisan they are in real life. >> ifill: let's get back to what we expect the president to say. what does he say? we've already heard prebuttals not only from romney but john boehner the speaker of the house who will

what do you say to mark pryor, to j to joe manchin from west virginia?, i would say that the decision yesterday was not a judgment on the merits of the pipeline. the pipeline may very well be constructed. the decision yesterday was based on the coercion from the republicans and the house of representatives, where they essentially said that the decision had to be made in 60 days, where you have the republican governor of the state of nebraska and so many other people saying that you need to look at an alternative route. these transnational pipelines, which are important for us, cannot -- the permits can not be judged and the decisions cannot be made in this kind of a timeline. so the 60-day timeline that was imposed was simply an arbitrary and capricious timeline, and if another application comes forward, then the judgments will be made on the merits. >> and before i let you go, i wanted to ask you about the washington monument, because we understand today that david rubenstein, very extraordinarily wealthy and philanthropic washingtonian has agreed to fo

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