mr. boehner, mr. cantor or mr. mccarthy, would say to anybody, i want to be in an election in which everybody who does not come to the polls is a judge -- adjudged a no. against me. that's not how we run american elections. but that's what mr. mica sent to the senate. now, senator reid, because he cares about those 90,000 jobs, as difficult as it may be, it's our understanding is going to say, we are not going to leave washington with those folks out on the street as our republican colleagues led by mr. mica and mr. boehner would do. >> congresswoman giffords came and voted for the bill. it seemed to be an incredibly emotional moment for a lot of the members. can you tell us when you heard about this, what the moment was like for you, what the moment was like for all you guys? >> it was a great moment for our country because we had a person who is so highly respected, i think the most respected person in america certainly elected official in america whose name is just synonymous with inspiration, with respectworks

mr. boehner, the was joe wilson of south carolina. that was a disrespectful moment for the congress and the americans -- and the country. he was admonish and he used the occasion to raise money for is reelection campaign. i think it was a shameful moment. no matter what party they president may belong to, when they are performing their duties in congress as our guest, we have to be respectful to the president and the office. i comport myself away and i think most members do on both sides of the aisle. with respect your question about the relationship of a member of congress to his or her constituency and how to best represent them, i think that is a give-and-take process. most of us have many mechanisms for making sure that our decisions are informed, they reflect the value systems that of voters -- that the voters are firm denote collecting as, but you have to stay in touch with a constituency to make sure you understand where they are on issues. that does not mean that your slavishly of pot -- devoted to popular opinion. but where a

mr. boehner and the republican majority has brought in because they ran last year saying, where's the jobss look at their jobs bill and compare with the president. but the problem is, they never came with the jobs bill, not one, rory. >> they passed the bill. >> bob, nia and rory, thank you. tell michele bachmann to get rest, rory. thanks for a great weekend ending. we'll be right back. >>> texas governor trying to become president. it is deja vu all over again for a nation still recovering from george w. bush. as we told you, the two have more than a few things in common. but as ridiculous as perry can be, he has a long way to go before matching this -- >> as yesterday's positive report card shows, childrens do learn when standards are high. i got my ear plugs in. underestimate the compassion of our country. i think they misunderestimated the will and determination of the commander-in-chief too. >> i call upon all nations to do everything they can to stop these terrorists killers. thank you. now watch this drive. fool me once, shame on -- shame on you. fool me -- can't get fooled again. i

mr. boehner and his republican caucus wanted to revisit this end of this year. not only have you said that the poor and the seniors are off the table, but now this pushes it to 2013. is that correct? so we won't go through this during christmas. >> fortunately we will not be going through this during the holiday season. we heard from retailers and businesses around the country the last thing they want is to continue this cloud. the president was interested in certainty. that's what we need in order to create jobs. we need to give people confidence the united states stands fully behind its obligations and commitments as it has always done. so that was very important to the president, and that's what this bill will allow us to do. >> now, nbc is reporting that sources say vice president biden said the president was willing to use the 14th amendment if he had to. do you know if that is so or not? >> i know that there aren't any easy exit ramps, of course we explored all kinds of possibilities. but what the american people expect, reverend sharpton, is that congress

mr. boehner. that man worked tirelessly trying to get that worked out and together. you have to understand, we are in such a mess right now. you are not going to get everything at the same time. butt: i don't want anything responsibility. surely, if you will go online and get this bill and reelect -- read it. i'm sure you will be disturbed with what we did. this is not a game changer. this is doing more of the same. i'm sorry you want me to vote, but do more the same, more the same, keep pushing things down the road like -- and let the next generation deal with it. this is just moving it and that is why i could not vote for it. i am so sorry you are disappointed with me and those that voted against it. but if you will read this bill as i did and go through and understand, you will see that we are pushing it off down the road. i know that there are promises that the committee is going to do this and all this kind of stuff. the bottom line, if you know our history and read this bill in conjunction with that, there -- we raise the debt ceiling, hallelujah, great. we're

mr. boehner would do. >> congresswoman giffords came to the floor and voted for the bill. it was an incredibly emotional moment for a lot of members. can you tell us when you heard about this, what the moment was like for you, actually for all you guys. >> it was a great moment for our country. we had a person who is so highly respected, i think the most respected person in america, certainly elected official in america whose name is synonymous with inspiration, with respect, with courage work patriotism and she really wanted to come, i'm not going to go into the details of when we knew what and all the rest. i was not one who would have encouraged her to come we didn't think it was going to hinge on one vote but she felt so strongly about it that she wanted to come and we're very, very proud that she did. i'm just looking at my watch because i don't know when she leaves town but any moment that she's here, she enhances the climate of bipartisanship and nonpartisanship and our country working together. it was a great moment. when the green light went up on the screen on th

mr. boehner, ms. pelosi, speaker boehner, and they worked this out. i'm not going to stand her and listen to this continued debate of how we are mean to people. i don't think anybody on that side of the aisle believes that president obama would do the horrible things that the people are indicating they would do. i just don't believe it, and i yield back. >> the gentleman's time expired. the gentleman from massachusetts. >> mac, i yield myself 10 seconds. if the bush tax cuts are great, where are the jobs? it's wrong to have the middle class in the country bear the burden of balancing the budget while the donald trumps get tax cuts. there's something wrong about that. i yield one minute to the gentlewoman from texas. >> the gentlewoman from texas is recognized. >> mr. speaker, this is a tough place to put america, not members of congress. we are paid to come here and do our job, but it's a very tough place to putt america, and so i have a simple state of facts to present today, and listen to my other colleagues, which i will, because it's a tough decis

mr. boehner indicating that there is no taxation increase ever going to occur, and that the administrationls that there are some opportunities for revenues, and there are questions about how the trigger is going to be implemented. i think that as we go forward, there will be great, and there will be more clarification. one of the problems when you do something like this at the last minute on such a scale, it is very hard to tie down the pieces, and i think that we are going to learn more in the days ahead. >> well, let me ask you this, and so in november, when the party of 12 come back, with their recommendations, revenues, taxes, you think will be in play then? >> i think it is very unlikely that the 12 people the way that it is going to be structured will come back with republicans and democrats, and you know, there has to be at least one from each party that agrees with the proposal and i also think that i am going to find ways to circumvent some of the triggers, and i will be surprised if this works as advertised. >> all right. congressman, thank you very much, and we appreciate your j

mr. boehner will get most of his republicans. will he get a big majority or overwhelming? lost nine on cut, cap and balance and 22 on the deal on friday? will he lose more than 22 republicans on this vote? that's probable and one of the reasons we're watching this play out. a huge policy debate for the country and international economy and also a fascinating political story. >> john will be all over this story reporting live from capitol hill on "john king usa" which comes up at the top of the hour for the north american viewers. john, thanks so much. we're standing by and getting ready to hear from john boehner, the speaker of the house of representatives. still doing a quorum call in the house. the vote getting ready to start momently. our live breaking news coverage continues right here in "the situation room." labored breathing ] [ coughing continues ] [ gasping ] [ elevator bell dings, coughing continues ] [ female announcer ] congress can't ignore the facts: more air pollution means more childhood asthma attacks. [ coughing continues ] log on to lungusa.org and tell

mr. boehner. then he went back to his caucus. he had to yield to the most strident voices in his party. they played brinksmanship with the full faith and credit of the united states. this was the result of that. you know, there is a lesson in that. compromise cannot be a dirty word. we have to work together to solve this problem. we have to do it in a way that's fair and balanced and meaningful. >> schieffer: are you saying that the president bears no responsibility for this? that this was all the fault of the other side? >> listen, bob, what i'm saying is review the history of what happened here. i think, first of all, people are less concerned about that than where we go moving forward. but let's look at the history of this. the fact of the matter is that this is essentially a tea party downgrade. the tea party brought us to the brink of a default. by the way you said before the president said... if we had defaulted on our debt the consequences would have been dramatic and lasting. it was the right thing to do to avoid that default. it was the wrong thing to do to push the country to

mr. boehner? he is the speaker of the house. >> wait a minute, because the house was going to elect all these republicans. >> i want to know, guys. >> where is the budget? >> acquitted himself with the president. is he -- he thinks is he the president. he thinks he is running the country. >> bill: you are really rod serlg. that's how really are. >> yeah. i'm rodder serlg. >> give us the outer limits music and we are good. no budget there. obama a party going on tomorrow night. >> a party how dare he? >> well, every wednesday, every night, vacations. >> that's ridiculous. >> americans are wondering if the backseat of their car is going to liberal. >> bill: colmes doesn't have a car he elm be out on the street. >> i have the f train. other statement. more violent imagery from the right. >> bill: calm down we have ether in the background. plenty more ahead as the factor moves along this evening. get ready to get ready obama administration will force companies to pay for breast feeding babies and birt

mr. boehner, where are the jobs in the republicans were elected to congress to create jobs.l: they have one still photographer in there taking a picture. >> let's attack them because there wasn't live streaming video. bill: either trumpet the deal or bury it publicly. >> it wasn't buried. we know it took place. >> this is part of a longer term trend, what lack of seriousness on the part of the white house about jobs. two years ago when the unemployment rate -- when the country was in trouble then. rather than focus on creating jobs. the white house pivots and moves on to healthcare. >> we are still living under the bush tax rates that we shed would create jobs. >> is that a serious response? >> boehner said he got 98% of what he wanted. let's hope mr. boehner creates the jobs now with the 98% he said he wanted. >> good luck running on that one. you need a new one. >> i'm not running. bill: when remember the stimulus plan that wasn't supposed to go over 8% unemployment. tucker he raised a lot of money. by the white house says they cancelled 10 events while the budget deal was

mr. boehner. person has been waiting 45 minutes. >> reporter: and in the speaker's political bat cave they follow twitter real-time. and they monitor every word coming from the white house. it's all part of the atmosphere that greets the speaker along with us as he arrives at the capitol to face his fellow republicans in an all-important meeting. you're going into your caucus directly into your caucus meeting? >> oh, yeah. hello, everybody. >> reporter: wherever the speaker walks today and in the capitol you walk forever, he doesn't appear to be his usual self. ♪ big bad john ♪ john boehner, the plain-spoken man from ohio is under intense pressure to line up every republican vote he can get to get his revised bill through congress. by all accounts, the big meeting with his fellow republicans is tense. in no uncertain terms, the speaker tells hard-line conservatives who are in no mood to compromise to get in line behind his bill. ♪ everybody knew you didn't give no lip to big john ♪ mr. speaker, is

mr. boehner. that's what you promised, your own pledge, to america, said, quote, joblessness is the single most important challenge facing america today, end of quote, your quote. yet you've done nothing. the republican house hasn't passed a single jobs bill since boehner took the speaker's gavel in january. and the gop candidates aren't doing any better. in fact, none of the top three contenders has a proposal for comprehensive job creation. though romney's website says they're working on it. i can hardly wait. but these republicans are certain about one thing, protecting corporations. >> we have to lower the tax rights. >> we need to take that rate and drop it down to being one of the lowest in the industrialized world. >> when people say raise taxes on corporations, they are raising taxes on people. >> well, again, you know what i feel about him feeling that corporations are people. but would all of the rhetoric, would all of the attacks, we must change the conversation to where we're in the co

mr. boehner that now it's put over until 2013, not this christmas. you have large cuts in the pentagon. we have social security off the table, medicare and medicaid, other than providers. so some of them probably thought that was better than what they were told. >> all that is going to be back on the table with this committee coming in the fall. >> we'll see where it goes. the bush tax cuts will expire. why couldn't you all keep it together? >> maybe, maybe not. we don't know. we'll see what the recommendations are once we get past this point. the more significant thing to note here is that as much as folks would like to keep a lot of victory with the tea party activists and the congress, those citizen legislators if you will, the dynamic in washington has changed. that's a good thing. regardless of how you may feel about this or that issue, i think, reverend, see a paradigm shift in how the government looks at spending and taxes and other issues going forward. when you talk about those members of tea party who did not support this particular bill, they will rise to fight another day on

mr. boehner was preparing to do with the $800 billion that he had proposed, to look at those areas of thehat allow you to do that without raising the rates on individuals. i have a problem with s&p, as a bond lawyer, for close to 20 years, watching them engage politically in something that is well beyond their scope and purview, where were they when all of this was going to happen many years ago. many folks in congress are looking at s&p and going, so what is your political agenda and why are you getting involved at this level? it's a mixed message coming out right now. >> and susan page, that's the issue for a lot of people like you and i who are not bond lawyers. it's like they decided to channel their inner sue and chuck rather than just looking at the numbers? >> true. administration has bee quick to point out a $2 trillion math mistake. that seems like a lot of money to me. maybe or not to sartandard & poor poor's. the biggest problems facing us on the fiscal front, growth of entitlement programs. not dealt with in this dead deal. >> would you bring -- terry said president out to bri

mr. boehner and also the gang of six solution, and also the bowles-simpson. it was all part of that. and therefore they could get that larger number in cuts. why not? would you at all going forward, as they name the members of this super committee be willing to compromise on that? >> well. >> we, speaker boehner said there was no deal until it was a deal. what they were talking about was $800 billion worth of revenue enhancement. not tax increases, but tax code -- >> rewriting the tax code. >> absolutely. and cutting out a lot of these loopholes and, you know, big oil, ethanol, $6 billion here. but then the president came back, maybe right after the gang of six issued their report and said now we need another $400 billion. and that's when that broke apart. so who knows. i wasn't in the room, you weren't in the room, but i think it's time. honestly, brooke, i think we ought to go back. >> would you go back early? >> absolutely. >> you would? >> we have two to three weeks of work that we could do this august. we could open up the marcellus shale, we could drill off the coast, we could

mr. boehner and others on the other side are serious about jobs. >> reverend sharpton will be marching in >> saturday is the march. >> if you take politics out of it, what could the president do in this speech after labor day to change the state of affairs here? >> it's going to be tough. you may not realize, yes the numbers are bad. as we report in the financial times, they are better than they were a few weeks ago for two reasons. firstly, interest rates have fallen. projections of the debt have gone down. because of the agreement to cut off the total budget deficit, the projections have gotten better. the problem now for the president on the jobs front or any other front, it's unclear whether the deficit is going to be sustainable. it's very unclear whether he's going to build pressurpressure. he's got a cocktail of challenges now. the report shows the scale of problems hanging over him. >> it's a huge, huge problem. it's unclear if we have a political system that's capable of tackling a huge problem. >> a political system in which congress is in control. it's said we are not going to

mr. john boehner and mr. mitchell mcconnell pick only people who have not taken the pledge. otherwise, this super committee -- this should not be called a super congress. we have a congress. call them a "super committee ." guest: i tend to be against people tying their hands behind their back because it makes them unable to respond to circumstances as they change. host: jim is on our republican line. caller: peter, you mentioned something about sharing the burden. i go home every night and turn on the news and see people of congress getting out of their limousines. for me, i am still getting a $9 hair cut bank i drive a pretty nice van. i am becoming the one with the draconian policies. i manage a quizno's. these punk kids come in and expect a free bigger chips. host: pittsburgh, pa.. i apologize for that caller. tom, are you with us? caller: ok, yes, i think we have been enjoying a false prosperity for maybe a couple decades. i suggest that we suspend the minimum wage, suspend the prevailing wage, and the mos regulations that keep business out of making something -- of addi

mr. john boehner and mr. mitchell mcconnell pick only people who have not taken the pledge. otherwise, this super committee -- this should not be called a super congress. we have a congress. call them a "super committee ." guest: i tend to be against people tying their hands behind their back because it makes them unable to respond to circumstances as they change. host: jim is on our republican line. caller: peter, you mentioned something about sharing the burden. i go home every night and turn on the news and see people of congress getting out of their limousines. for me, i am still getting a $9 hair cut bank i drive a pretty nice van. i am becoming the one with the draconian policies. i manage a quizno's. these punk kids come in and expect a free bigger chips. host: pittsburgh, pa.. i apologize for that caller. tom, are you with us? caller: ok, yes, i think we have been enjoying a false prosperity for maybe a couple decades. i suggest that we suspend the minimum wage, suspend the prevailing wage, and the mos regulations that keep business out of making something -- of addi

mr. merkley: i rise to address the obama-boehner debt deal and it is an issue i have been immersed in, wrestling to understand the impact on unemployment, the impact on investments that will strengthen our nation down the road. certainly the impact on programs that strengthen our families. and it is in that context, trying to understand how do we build the strongest possible nation for working families, how do we do that. and is this obama-boehner debt deal the right path? and i must conclude that it is not the right path. and i conclude that for four reasons. the first is the impact on jobs. we are facing a gathering storm on the job front. we have five million to eight million additional foreclosures that are suppressing success of our construction market, driving down the value of houses and having a devastating impact on the attempts at recovery. second, the unemployment benefits, extended unemployment benefits expire this year. and the rough estimate is that that will result in the reduction of around 500,000 jobs. that's a tremendous blow in 2012. and then we have the termination of the pa

but now that country's been downgraded, mr. 98%, isn't taking ownership any more. boehner now says, it is my hope this wake-up call will convince washington democrats that they can no longer afford to tinker around the edges of our long-term debt problem. tinker around the edges, speaker boehner? tell your tea party pals that we can't afford to deal with their tinkering. because even after the downgrade, they have shown they're unwilling to compromise. >> they have to look at themselves and they have to understand that they're the ones that are totally to blame. it has nothing to do with increasing revenues by tax hikes and has everything to do with cutting spending. >> congressman wes curly didn't read the s&p memo downgrade in the country. otherwise he would realize that revenues were a part of the downgrade decision. s&p writes the majority of republicans in congress continue to resist any measure that would raise revenue. join me now is democratic strategist bob shrum, now professor at new york university. also with me is national political reporter for the washington

mr. stockman, so pardon my interruption, so what did john boehner do wrong in your estimation? >> well, this was just a phony cut. $750 billion over ten years is a rounding error. it is 1.5% of gdp and all backloaded into the distant future. it cuts $25 billion now which is 2% of the deficit in the coming year, and 2/3, half a trillion of the cuts happen not after the next election, but after the 2016 election and in other words, so they are so far into the foggy future, you can't see them. so how does he have the nerve to stand before the american people and say we don't need a tax increase when the only thing he can come up with is a spending cuts at a half of one percent of gdp that will occur in the fiscal hereafterand not the real world that we are facing at the present time, so both of them folded, and both of them are faking, and the country at large is going to be the loser, and i don't think that the american people are stupid enough to believe that either one of them did an honest job of trying to come up with the plan that will make a real difference. >> and you know

mr. mcconnell has stated on the floor, i've gotten to know him and speaker boehner a lot better this past month or two. especially the speaker. even though i disagree vehemently with the direction the speaker's legislation took with no bipartisan support at all, it is not the product we have here. the product we have here is one of compromise. the winners, without trying to outline who the winners are, there is principally one winner through this, and ities american people. we settled for less than what we wanted, so do did my friend, the leader of the republicans, settle for less than they wanted. that's the way legislation works, the way compromise works. but i can't let go without responding to my friend who boasted about in his own way about this -- the new senators and the new members of congress who came here. i welcome them all, but a result of the tea party direction of this congress the last few months has been very, very disconcerting, and very unfair to the american people. it stopped us at arriving at a conclusion much earlier and we must go forward. and also, mr. president, i

came into office when john boehner and others said they would not cooperate with the president and they wanted him to be a one-time president. that's part of the problem. mr. mccollum and john boehner have been there 49 years in the house and they act like it belongs to them. when the president came in, everything the president tried to do, it was no, they became the party of no. host: what specifically would you like washington to do to improve the economy? caller: i would like for them to expand the vacation that the house is on and give them an additional two or three months until december 1, to give the president a chance to work with president a chance to work with his cabinet to create the jobs and to do the things that he knows should be done. i mean, it's not his fault. he cannot get any help. the republicans and tea party are double teaming him. host: mike tweaks that a good budget deal would balance the cuts and revenue -- a professor at the university of chicago and a scholar at the american enterprise institute has an naupa this morning in the wall street journal. "the folly of economic short- termism." "usa today" -- jasper, tennessee. on the

house speaker john boehner said mr.lan to congress and skip the speech. >>> and while the president is pushing for more american-made goods to be sold overseas to create jobs back here at home, it turns out the big bus that he's been touring in for the past few days was partially made in canada. a spokesman for the company tells abc news that they build the empty bus shell and that another company based in nashville actually customizes it. >>> rick perry is creating buzz over his comments about climate change. the republican told a group in new hampshire that he doesn't believe in man-made global warming. he calls it a theory that has not been proved. perry accused scientists of manipulating climate data so they could g g bigger research grants. government research shows that perry's home state of texas releases more carbon dioxide pollution than any other state. >>> students in joplin, missouri, are off to a fresh start. three months after that devastatinintornado left a third of their city in absolute ruins. the schoo

boehner. i was thrilled by that, thank you, mr. speaker. >> but every day there had be a tweet, mr.nt, where are the jobs? mr. president, where is the jobs? now that he's speaking, people are tunnels on him, mr. speaker, where are the jobs? this is not just the president's job, if you will. it's congress's job, it's washington's job to put people back to work. unfortunately jake tapper is right. that's because the administration has been gob smacked are few months by some calamity that takes -- >> you're letting them off the hook. >> no, i'm not. >> they're pivoting until -- >> robert, how about any of of pivoting, how about engaging in a legitimate prosperity debate which says what reforms do we need to do that will create growth? i don't know the answer to those questions. >> it's the political uncertainly that is causing so much of this problem with jobs. >> you disagree with that. and they are not invests in america. they don't know the environmentals. >> i disagree with that. >> i think a bigger barrier to your uncertainty is a banking system that's more profitable to speculate

mr. speaker, i want to complement the president of the united states, the two leaders of the united states senate, and i want to congratulate speaker john boehner who has a phenomenal job ensuring we could not continue business as usual, and i want to congratulate pelosi for getting us to the point where we are today. mr. speaker, i urge my colleagues, i urge my colleagues to support this measure. i yield back the balance of my time. gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the chair now recognizes members from the committee on ways and means, chairman, mr. camp from michigan, and ranking minority member mr. levin from michigan. the gentleman from michigan. mr. camp: thank you, mr. speaker. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. camp: mr. speaker, if the congress does not act and act now, america will default and that would wreak havoc on our economy and make it harder for americans to find and keep a job in an already weak economy. default cannot be an option and i am pleased that the bill before us ensures that will not occur. ealth of this just as the fault would have threat

mr. mcconnell has stated on the floor, i've gotten to know him and speaker boehner a lot better this past month or two. especially the speaker. even though i disagree vehemently with the direction the speaker's legislation took with no bipartisan support at all, it is not the product we have here. the product we have here is one of compromise. the winners, without trying to outline who the winners are, there is principally one winner through this, and ities american people. we settled for less than what we wanted, so do did my friend, the leader of the republicans, settle for less than they wanted. that's the way legislation works, the way compromise works. but i can't let go without responding to my friend who boasted about in his own way about this -- the new senators and the new members of congress who came here. i welcome them all, but a result of the tea party direction of this congress the last few months has been very, very disconcerting, and very unfair to the american people. it stopped us at arriving at a conclusion much earlier and we must go forward. and also, mr. president, i

boehner and leader cantor. i urge my colleagues to recogne this opportunity to fix what is broken in washington and use this occasion significantly cut runaway spending. mr. speaker, i urge a yes vote and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from michigan. mr. levin: thank you. i now yield two minutes to my friend, a most distinguished member of the ways and means committee for a long time, mr. charles range of new york. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york voiced for two minutes. mr. rangel: thank you, mr. speaker. while i stand on this floor as an american and a person that loves this congress so much and i'm embarrassed also as a member that a president of the united states would have his domestic and foreign policy actually held hostage because with him and only him and no other president have we decided that we would almost put in jeopardy the faith and fiscal responsibility of this country paying its dels debts. you know, a loof people have said that we got to a $14.4 trillion debt because we got drunk and spent money like a drunken say lore. if that

i think speaker boehner should be complimented this. nation should never default. >> mr. you were president, would you return to the full enforcement of the no child left behind law? >> no. i believe in education starting at the local level. no child left behind has some faults. i don't believe in unfunded mabdates. i believe the federal government should be out of the business of trying to micro-manage the education of our children. >> their thank you, mr. cane. your answer had sm special lighting there. sorry, we had special lighting. time for closing comments. each candidate has 30 seconds to close. >> thank you very much. i want to thank the people of iwa. my family and i, karen and the kids came here 3 weeks ago. we have spent 3igate weeks here, enjoying the time, been to 51 cities in 15 days, been to 68 counties, not as many as chuck grassley, but almost. we're working very, very hard. national media may not pay a lot of attention to us, but we pay a lot of attention to iowa and new hampshire and south carolina. we will be working very hard to earn your trust, so yo

speaker boehner, when just days after we took the oath of office in 112th congress, received the request from the president of the united states through his treasury secretary, mr. geithner, that we increase the debt ceiling. mr. speaker said then that he will agree it's essential for us to increase the debt ceiling but we were not going to proceed with business as usual. we're not going to continue increasing the debt without getting to the root cause of the problem. and, mr. speaker, i've got to tell you that through all of the debate that's taken place, we have gotten to the point where we have a measure, it's a bipartisan compromise, it's a bipartisan agreement that i believe will, as i said, send a signal to those who are seeking to create jobs for our fellow americans, that we now are going to have the kind of fiscal restraint and responsibility from washington, d.c., the likes of which we haven't seen in a long, long period of time. so, mr. speaker, i will tell you that i strongly support this measure, as everyone has said it's far from perfect, but i strongly support it. and i urge my colleagues, democrats and republicans alike, to join together in supp

. >> chris: if speaker boehner says, paul i want you on that committee, you are mr. budget, would you go on? >> yes, i would if he did that. >> chris: do you want to be on it? >> i think -- i'm not butting my stock in this committee. i think people are over tim emphasizing what this committee going -- over emphasizing what this committee is going to achieve. democrats have never wanted to put their health care bill on the take. may have not wanted to address -- we haven't seen a budget passed in two years. 9 president hasn't put out a plan. -- the president hadn't put out a plan. they don't even want to go to structural entitlement reform. i will do this, but i want to make sure people understand that i don't think this is going to be a committee that is going to fix our fiscal problems. i hope it going to get another single or double, down payment on our problems. i think you need to change the leadership in washington. [ talking over each other ] >> chris: let me jump in. you talk about the lack of open minedness and production and not passing the budget by democra

. >> chris: if speaker boehner says, paul i want you on that committee, you are mr. budget, would you go on? >> yes, i would if he did that. >> chris: do you want to be on it? >> i think -- i'm not butting my stock in this committee. i think people are over tim emphasizing what this committee going -- over emphasizing what this committee is going to achieve. democrats have never wanted to put their health care bill on the take. may have not wanted to address -- we haven't seen a budget passed in two years. 9 president hasn't put out a plan. -- the president hadn't put out a plan. they don't even want to go to structural entitlement reform. i will do this, but i want to make sure people understand that i don't think this is going to be a committee that is going to fix our fiscal problems. i hope it going to get another single or double, down payment on our problems. i think you need to change the leadership in washington. [ talking over each other ] >> chris: let me jump in. you talk about the lack of open minedness and production and not passing the budget by democra

mr. director, the question i have, there is speaker of the house boehner bragging basically way back last december he said they were going to do this thing. hold the debt ceiling hostage to get their way. couldn't the president have said at that moment way back in december of last year, no game plaining. no hostagetaking. no terrorizing this country. i'm not negotiating with you guy. could he have done it? you can't play it that way? >> chris, last december we did raise the issue of the debt limit and it was clear that there was not an ability to get it done last december. so it's not that there wasn't an attempt. and i think you and i worked together in the congress and it's not -- it was not yet a pressing issue for congress to deal with on either side. so i think that the question of dealing with it then versus now, i realize there's a lot of people going back and asking, but it wasn't there last december. and enormous amount of good, important work was done last december. let me speak to the piece you played at the beginning, because whathe president was saying, his disappointment, he

>> boehner comes to you and says paul i want you on the committee, you're mr.on? >> i would if he did that. >> do you want to be on it? >> well, look, i'm not putting my stock in this committee. people are overemphasizing what this committee is going to achieve. i don't think the committee will achieve a full fix to republicans because democrats never wanted to put their healthcare bill on the table. >> bob: is it me or does he look like alfred e. newman? i don't know. >> dana: why the personal attack? >> bob: it's no i like newman. the reason he's downplaying what he can do is the power is going -- if they were successful, the budget committee would not be as powerful. appropriation committee the same thing. remember if, if there is a chance that the committee would do something, they have to come out with a major rewrite of the entire economic plan for the future. it's not subject to amendment or filibuster. >> eric: we'll give bob beckel the last word. >> "the five" will be right back. >> bob: that's a first! >> kimberly: happy now? ♪ ♪ >>> i'm bret baier in

sealing, gets us toward entitlement reform, i thought speaker boehner should be complimented for what he did. this nation should never default. >> mr cain if you were president would you return to no child left behind? >> no, no child left behind had some faults. i don't believe in unfunded mandates. i believe the federal government should be out of the business trying to micromanage the education of our children. [ applause ] >> thank you mr. cain. your answer had special lighting there. time foreclosing comments. each candidate has 30 seconds to close. let's begin with senator santorum. >> i want to thank the people of iowa. my family and, karen and the kids came here three weeks after, we've spent three great weeks enjoying the time and been to 15 one cities in 15 days. -- been to 51 cities in 15 days. as you have seen national media may not pay a lot of attention us to but we pay a lot of pang to the -- a a lot of attention to the people. you can kick the tires and see what kind of president you want. someone who has proven leadership and can get things done in washington, d.c.. and a guy who beat three incumbent democrats. >>

mr. obama insists he's willing to work with speaker boehner. but says boehner has to get his house in order first. ed henry is live and joins with us the latest. >> reporter: this is not a new message from the president. we heard it repeatedly on that bus tour through the midwest earlier this week where he was saying, that republicans will not come to the table and work with him and specifically, what he was saying in this interview for the program cbs sunday morning, he was saying his problem with john boehner is not with him personally. it is the fact if he tries to cut a deal with boehner the speaker has to go back and deal with the tea party faction within his own party and can't get agreement. we saw that with the debt talks. the president wondering that will be the same thing that plays out when he introduces his economic plan next month. the president did in the interview with cbs suggests that he understands the stakes are high. and if unemployment doesn't turn around soon, co-lose his job. -- he could lose his job. >> the president: un

if speaker boehner comes to you and says paul i want you on that committee, you are mrs. budget, would you go on? >> yes, i would if he did that. >> chris: doou want to be on it? you care about these issues. >> i'm not putting my stock in this committee. i think people are overemphasizing what this committee is going to achieve. i don't think this committee is going to achieve a full fix to the problems because democrats have never wanted to put their healthcare bill on the table. they have not wanted to address -- they haven't put a plan out. we haven't seen a budget passed in the senate in two years. the president hasn't put out a specific plan to fix the problem and they don't even want to go at structural entitlement reform which is what you have to do to fix this problem and prevent this downgrade. >> chris: let me ask you -- >> i will do this but i want to make sure that people understand i don't think this is a committee that is going to fix all of our fiscal problems. get a downpayment on the problems. ultimately i think you need to change the leadership in washin

mr. mcconnell has stated on the floor, i've gotten to know him and speaker boehner a lot better this past month or two. especially the speaker. even though i disagree vehemently with the direction the speaker's legislation took with no bipartisan support at all, it is not the product we have here. the product we have here is one of compromise. the winners,ithout trying to outline who the winners are, ther is principally one winner through this, and ities american people. weettled for less than what we wanted, so do did my friend, the leader of the republicans, settle for less than they wanted. that's the way legislation works, the way compromise works. but i can't let go without responding to my friend who boasted about in his own way about this -- the new senators and the new members of congress who came here. i welcome them all, but a result of the tea party direction of this congress the last few months has been very, ry disconcerting, and very unfair to the american people. it stopped us at arriving at a conclusion much earlier and we must go forward. and also, mr. president, i recogn

speaker boehner, when just days after we took the oath of office in 112th congress, received the request from the president of the united states through s treasury secretary, mr. geithner, that we increase the debt ceiling. mr. speaker said then that he will agree it's essential for us to increase the debt ceiling but we were not going to proceed with business as usual. we're not going to continue increasing the debt without getting to the root cause of the problem. and, mr. speaker, i've got to tell you that through all of the debate that's taken place, we have gotten to the point where we have a measure, it's a bipartisan compromise, it's a bipartisan agreement that i believe will, as i said, send a signal to those who are seeking to create jobs for ourellow americans, that we now are going to have the kind of fiscal restraint and responsibility from washington, d.c., the likes of which we haven't seen in a long, long period of time. so, mr. speaker, i will tell you that i strongly support this measure, as everyone has said it's far from perfect, but i strongly support it. and i urge my colleagues, democrats and republicans alike, to join together in suppor