host: marsha blackburn is our guest. e calls -- first up is missy, a republican in buffalo, new york. go ahead, missy. caller: good morning, peter. good morning, congressman blackburn. guest: good morning. caller: first of all, one of the that i admire about is the fact that since 2007 you haven't requested any special earmarks in the federal budget so it truly shows you are making an effort unlike some of the talking heads in washington who say that they're going to cut back and cut back, yet they keep requesting earmarks for their district. some of them wasteful. and another thing that really bothers me is what people seem to be forgetting is that democrats were supposed to have this taken care of last year. i believe it was steny hoyer who says they weren't going to be proposing a budget because they were worried about the deficit. well, are they worried now is my question because it seems to me that they've been slacking off this entire time. and it's just really frustrating. see members of congress pinch a penny, lik

. >> marsha blackburn is a supporter of speaker boehner's bill and came out of the meeting with the gop conference. we're glad you're here. let's get straight to it. why is your leader having such a difficult time convincing more conservative house members that this is the good plan, the good start, for what kind of cuts this country needs? >> a couple of points there. i think, first of all, speaker boehner is to be commended to looking at a plan that is, again, going to get most of our conference on that plan, if not all of our conference on that plan. as we did when we passed the provisions embodied in cuts, cap and balance. those principles are still at play. and what he's working to do is to add an amendment to his plan that will allow for a balanced budget amendment to move forward and have to be passed before that second tranche of debt ceiling lift could be given. and i think he's wise to do that, and i wouldn't say it's having trouble. i would say what he is doing is listening, and he is seeking to involve the conference. the reason is, what we're trying to do is solve the probl