we believe in dine michl. we believe we should grow the pie to get a better slice of the pie. it is not a question of sitting here in government picking winners and losers by cronyism or whatever you want to try to redistribute the slices of the pie. we want to grow the pie for everybody. now, we're going to hear a lot of rhetoric like we have heard in the past. back in 2011 when we passed our first budget, the appropriations we had in that budget for this fiscal year was $1.47 trillion for 2015. back then, that was considered draconian, unserious and many other names were called. then, patty murray and i and all of us put together a bipartisan budget agreement that called for spending in fiscal 2015 $1.14 billion. president obama signed that proposal into law. it was heralded as a great bipartisan step in the right direction. and so for those of you who are keeping score and minding the rhetoric, that's $33 billion less under this bipartisan bill than we proposed two years earlier which was so draconian, so unserious. we're proposing the federal government increases the spend

we believe in dine michl. we believe we should grow the pie to get a better slice of the pie. it is not a question of sitting here in government picking winners and losers by cronyism or whatever you want to try to redistribute the slices of the pie. we want to grow the pie for everybody. now, we're going to hear a lot of rhetoric like we have heard in the past. back in 2011 when we passed our first budget, the appropriations we had in that budget for this fiscal year was $1.47 trillion for 2015. back then, that was considered draconian, unserious and many other names were

we believe in dine michl. we believe we should grow the pie to get a better slice of the pie.it is not a question of sitting here in government picking winners and losers by cronyism or whatever you want to try to redistribute the slices of the pie. we want to grow the pie for everybody. now, we're going to hear a lot of rhetoric like we have heard in the past. back in 2011 when we passed our first budget, the appropriations we had in that budget for this fiscal year was $1.47 trillion for 2015. back then, that was considered draconian, unserious and many other names were called. then, patty murray and i and all of us put together a bipartisan budget agreement that called for spending in fiscal 2015 $1.14 billion. president obama signed that proposal into law. it was heralded as a great bipartisan step in the right direction. and so for those of you who are keeping score and minding the rhetoric, that's $33 billion less under this bipartisan bill than we proposed two years earlier which was so draconian, so unserious. we're proposing the federal government increases the spendi