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ken conrad said he wanted to mark up a budget. he has been back tracking that as well.sappointing. they will rely on caps put in by the budget control act. that is not even close to a budget. they were trying, i'm sure to block any attempt the republicans made toward bringing up the house budget or bringing up alternatives for example, from like pat too manyey. >> bottom line, they don't want to show the american public that first of all they have no plan. the only plan is to increase taxes on the american people. >> the president has a proposal. so the president has some plan. the real problem is senator harry reid made a decision the stop the budget process by not letting the vote come to the floor as a consequence, the united states can't get its finances in order. we continue down the road paying high debt and people are unemployed and cat get the fundamentals to put it together with a budget. not saying that the congressman ryan's budget is the end all at all. but i know the process deliberately stopped. >> made it t case why it's important that the republicans tak

ken conrad said he wanted to mark up a budget. he has been back tracking that as well.disappointing. they will rely on caps put in by the budget control act. that is not even close to a budget. they were trying, i'm sure to block any attempt the republicans made toward bringing up the house budget or bringing up alternatives for example, from like pat too manyey. >> bottom line, they don't want to show the american public that first of all they have no plan. the only plan is to increase taxes on the american people. >> the president has a proposal. so the president has some plan. the real problem is senator harry reid made a decision the stop the budget process by not letting the vote come to the floor as a consequence, the united states can't get its finances in order. we continue down the road paying high debt and people are unemployed and cat get the fundamentals to put it together with a budget. not saying that the congressman ryan's budget is the end all at all. but i know the process deliberately stopped. >> made it t case why it's important that the republicans t

today, the house -- the senate budget chairman ken conrad said he is going to propose and mark up inimpson-bowles proposal, the deficit reduction plan that is bipartisan. but it will not deal it, move it from committee until after the election. what about this, a.b.? the politics here. >> senator conrad is leaving. he won't be here after the election. except for the lame duck congress. she not holding a mark up. his markup is when you mark up and change legislation and then you vote on it and bring it to the floor. he is not going to hold a vote. this is actually a hearing of a well-known document, the simpson-bowles, deficit reduction plan that everyone in washington is now very acquainted with. he got a lukewarm reception from the leadership. this is not possible to see a senate vote. senate majority leader harry reid is not allowing the kind of votes that would open up the vulnerable members to political commercials. and this is how he chooses to run the senate. there will be no budget. >> this is complete and utter con. senator conrad by all accounts is a serious guy. this is a v

i feel sorry for ken conrad who tried, but he gave us new taxes and no spenning cuts and he couldn'tn get that marked up in committee. >> greta: you say you feel sorry for him. i know all members of congress and the house work hard. but the reason why he didn't get that markup done, he's the chairman is because he was getting political pressure, i understand from the leadership. i don't consider that try. he has the power and the authority. i don't know if your budget is a good one or not. we are not getting -- >> but we did one,. >> greta: but in order to consider yours, the senate has to produce one. so trying is not good enough. >> i agree because america deserves better. america does not deserve a debt crisis. this is the most predictable crisis we have ever had. in 2008, when we had the economic crisis that, caught us by surprise. if your president, your congressman and your senator knew about a bam time, when it was coming, how it stop it and had time to stop it and doesn't do so because it wasn't good politics -- what would you think of that person? we know a debt crisis is co

today, ken conrad saying a vote on the budget will probably not happen until after the election.ll a waste of time? brit hume joins us. is this a waste of time? exercise in futility? >> yes, in a word it is. it's not the worst thing that happened. they will bring the simpson-bowles committee recommendation to the committee. but the budget committee is not going to act on them. so it's, it doesn't mean much. certainly not a substitute for what the law requires, out theed now for the third year to bring detailed budget to the senate floor and try to pass a budget. for the coming year. >> if this is a an act of futility, instead of time doing that, they could look for the waste and the fraud and some of the agencies. that could be an idea. tomorrow's exercise is just as absurd. >> what is shocking, chairman of the budget committee, conrad, this is his swan song. his last year. he is retiring. he has been a budget hawk through the years. he would like to do something about the budget and have a legacy and said i was trying to do something about it before the debt crisis and he has be

ken conrad said he wanted to mark up a budget. he has been back tracking that as well.ointing. they will rely on caps put in by the budget control act. that is not even close to a budget. they were trying, i'm sure to block any attempt the republicans made toward bringing up the house budget or bringing up alternatives for example, from like pat too manyey. >> bottom line, they don't want to show the american public that first of all they have no plan. the only plan is to increase taxes on the american people. >> the president has a proposal. so the president has some plan. the real problem is senator harry reid made a decision the stop the budget process by not letting the vote come to the floor as a consequence, the united states can't get its finances in order. we continue down the road paying high debt and people are unemployed and cat get the fundamentals to put it together with a budget. not saying that the congressman ryan's budget is the end all at all. but i know the process deliberately stopped. >> made it t case why it's important that the republicans take ov

the very simple term we saw ken conrad pull up on the sunday show over the weekend, things might be goings that got us into this mess in the first place, i've not heard a retort to that. >> what are those economic policies? are they the bush tax cuts? that's what they seem to allude to. if they were so bad, why did president obama keep him in place in 2009 and 2010 when he had 60 democrats in the senate and 255 democrats in the house. you notice the democrats aren't very specific about what the so-called policies got us into. i think one of the policies they got us into it is the absence of regulations in fannie and freddie and on this issue, they opposed this regulation and republicans were in favor. >> what about today he'll be pushing the buffet rule and we cited the third way the moderate democratic thinktank, they say the independents in the next election don't buy the fairness argument. >> don't buy the class warfare argument. the question is going to be -- they don't buy it in the abstract. the question is going to be whether the republican candidate which i think is likely to be m

ken conrad is taking the step where he's basically going to introduce what is sort of a variation butng the type of reception you would think considering all the nice things said about the proposal. >> yeah. both sides. >> what gives? why can this proposal that everyone says is sort of the common sense middle ground for both parties, why all the sudden is not willing to touch with a tone-foot pole? >> i think it's timing. and i think it's going to take a presidential leadership. you're going to have to have a president that's leaning in. i think there are people on both sides. bull simpson is a couple years old. the baseline's changed a little bit. but the particulars of it there was a lot of support on both sides. you get into fine points of the details and obviously we would love to have an opportunity to amend it, improve it and make it stronger, but there's a good body of work we can use as a foundation. >> what do you think of mitt romney with his ability to lean in and get things done? do you have conviction about him as he looks like the nominee? >> i do on the fundamental issu

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