. >> congressmen stand her love and end up with a budget to kuester at the next of prior taxes and lowerspending. congressman levin is the ranking member of the house ways and means committee. his comments by the science monitor is about an hour. >> thanks for coming. i'm dave cook from the monitor. i guess this morning's representatives sander levin of the house ways and means committee. since his first visit of a welcome. he's a detroit native, earned dispatchers at the university of chicago, masters from columbia and a law degree from harvard. he was elected a state senate in 1964 and served as senate minority leader during the carter administration was assistant administrator of the agent t. for international development. he was selected the house in 1982 for your sectors rather was elected to the senate in march 2010 representative of an unaccountable as chairman of the ways and means committee, this end of the biographical bowl portion coming onto the the thrilling process portion. as always, we are unaffected. no live blogging in treating her embargo in the breakfast is over excep

missy kuester, all that stuff coming up, we're kind of sol at this point. >> i think we will hear more president as he has done in the past, thinking the only people who are called names are people on his side which is not true. i reminded him franklin roosevelt's term. they did not dwell on it, but come up with that was the time of sluggish growth when the government was tilting toward private sector unions. at a time when you had a significant recession and weak government, heavy regulations, higher taxes, what got us out of that economic doldrums is something called world war ii. we are in the economic doldrums again, very sluggish growth that has not been president in america since that time. we don't want a world war ii in our hands and none seems to be on offer. i am not sure how we get out of this. the younger generation of americans, the majority of whom support president obama although a reduced majority, will have to make do with less at least for the time being. tracy: happily they will be a little disheartened by their votes. thank you for sharing your thoughts with us. >>