o'neill -- "married with children" was more the vegas guy. hey, whoa! i had guys take my wife -- [beep] i can't fond will your wife's -- [beep] [laughter] >> it was a little bit of a different crowd. tavis: which one is better? [laughter] >> "married with children" kept you -- kept me wanting the approval of my peers, which i didn't really get. they all said, you know, you're successful. that in itself is a certain amount of acclaim in this town. but in this show you get helen merea, spielberg and that's what i'm talking about. that means a lot. to me, it means a lot. i enjoy it. tavis: how fortunate, how blessed, how lucky do you feel that you had had a chance to at this age, to have another bite of the apple and have a successful bite at it and get this acclaim? >> as lucky as you can be. in terms of the business, as lucky as you can be. i feel very lucky. tavis: this won't be it and this show will be around for a while. but if this were it, if your career were going to be defined by these two bookends, "married with children," "modern family," you wo

it all began he job with national debt now doubled revenue to the treasury the problem was top tip o'neill quadruple social spending you know that was the problem he had to pay off tip o'neill with social spending to get the defense spending he needed broccoli got down on his tax rate from seventy four percent down to twenty five and the throat and ran out two trillion dollars of it was a spending problem it was you know president i know it was a spending problem reagan is spent a billion a trillion dollars on star war was not a sign of that a c. that is a totally made up number he did not spend a trillion dollars and still he certainly is damaging to any that eight years and twenty dollars on the national defense he spent a trillion to make not only numbers out of two trillion dollars that something is when he came into office our debt was less than and that was the right have to pony it all and the liberal democrats in congress on social spending to to get the defense spending we were on the soviet union every every budget that has been submitted by any president in the last forty years

my name is james o'neill. >> we held the hearing and closed the hearing. i am going to allow two minutes to tell us about the settlement negotiations. >> that was the request for's agent? >> yes. >> during the settlement negotiations -- >> could you speak into the microphone, sir? >> during the settlement negotiations, the project sponsors offered to build a box on the second floor deck. what it would essentially do is come in 36 inches from the deck side that shares the wall with my client. they have offered that as a tool for mitigating the privacy issue. that is the extent of the settlement. my client rejected that as insufficient. the deck abuts her second story bedroom window. >> before you walk away, what was done about the issue, having access to the building to do maintenance work in those types of things? >> the original concerns were the maintenance of the -- at the site of the house. of originally, she understood there be a set back the entire length of the house on the ground level of about 5 feet. that would not be the case. it would go from t

and so, president ronald reagan and house speaker tip o'neill -- a political odd couple if you have ever seen one -- got together and hammered out an agreement. the agreement we reached and voted for in 1983 resulted in social security remaining solvent from then until 2037. we wanted to buy 75 years of solvency but we bought over 50. so those who say today that social security is in trouble, i would remind them, untouched with no action by congress, social security will make every payment it has promised to every social security recipient with a cost-of-living adjustment every month of every year until 2037. there aren't many things you can say that about in washington, that for over 25 years this program is financially sound. but the bad news is in 2037 things change dramatically. untouched at that point, social security benefits will go down 22%. now that's a heavy hit on lower-income retirees and middle-income retirees. and so we know that looming 25 years over the horizon is a terrific challenge. president obama created a deficit commission. senator harry reid was kind enough -- i g

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. >> commissioners, my name is james o'neill. i am here to speak on behalf of supporters of the dr requestor who are not able to be present. i have copies of the letters from those who may not receive them. the first one is from judith and richard harrington of 227 and would. -- 227 edgewood. they say they support their neighbors in opposing the project. these and other neighbors believe the proposed project is massive and extends to far into the rear yard and open space along the eastern size of edgewood and is not in keeping with the historic character of the neighborhood. we would not like to see the unrestricted building of such large houses on our street. if such a pattern were to become established, it would forever destroy the character of our beautiful neighborhood and its accessibility to the forest. next letter is from marshall erwin. i support my neighbors to seek to have the project size reduced. what i learned about the project at the meeting -- and she spent a substantial time describing how the project would be bui

coming up all the sports news with the union o'neill union so so named fight of the year may be months away but the fighting talk has already begun may indeed he's to go on t.v. here in either during or july and mr chua said he's going to knock him any early prediction but i really don't think it's going to be a knockout it could be clones it could be an early finish but my prediction is the fight me and i'll even go ahead more enough coming up in just a sec. are you with us this is what's today i'm you know me let's take a look at the headlines. taking nothing for granted russia ball stick out like out warns against the threat the book stockport says our media knows that in this weekend's local. ice capades the free scoring local team steve defense in the first of this year's cage ill semifinals tonight we take a look at how that took place. hard day's night in the n.b.a. sees the lakers now a triple overtime victory against. quite an amazing football is where we begin the twenty twelve european qualifiers get back underway this weekend's russia troubles for a media with manager dick

. >> reporter: 13-year-old kayla o'neill has type ii diabetes and a lot of weight to lose. >> it feelsood. i'm making a big change. >> reporter: linda, entrepreneur, grandmother, all around inspirational dynamo, plans to nudge kayla every step of the way toward good health. >> we must wake up. what we have been doing is not working. >> reporter: especially in mississippi, which tips the scales unlike any state in america. >> i want to pass this heavyweight title on to someone else. i don't want it any more. we do not want it for this state. mississippi is going to move forward. >> reporter: two years ago, with her late sister's struggles with obesity moving her to act, she started shape up vicksburg. organizing neighborhood walking clubs, grocery store shopping trips. even opening her lady's only gym every saturday for free. the results are clear, 20,000 pounds gone. this is what she envisions for her hometown. two thirds of the people here are overweight or obese, she's motivated thousands of them now off to a running start. people like ebony fisher, whose dropped 50 pounds and counti

so we now have a clear leader in the russian premier league mr o'neill next time is enough yes we do indeed rubina are leading the way after just two weekends with a look at the leader in just a sec. and this is here with all the sports this hour our headline. ice age my divorce tie the key child quarter final series with calvin garza three games apiece meaning the winner will be decided in game seven on monday. causing a splash china live up to their billing out the world series of banks in moscow pocketing all four goals up for grabs. cost glories thirty one years ago british olympians dealy thompson on allen wells in gold at the most two games we catch up at the paris they retrace everything's. going with russian for three premier league games have not finished title contenders routine storming to the top of the table courtesy off at two no win over trek grozny the side two from true thanks to strike from venice come again this on christian noboa either side of the half time break rubin are seeking a third russian championship in four years in the days hoping to include bun nailed

discuss of more revolutions are likely elsewhere in the world i'm joined by brendan o'neil in london he is editor of spiked in paris we cross to john locke and he is director of studies at the institute of democracy and cooperation and in phoenix we go to rachel alexander she is coeditor of the intellectual conservative and another member of our house talk team yell on the hunger all right folks this is cross talk that means you can jump in anytime you want to read and if i could go to you in london first. we what we've been seeing in the arab middle east that say let's be very generous over the last two months do you think that the powers that be in the west that have had so much influence in these countries over the last few decades i would say negative have digested the gravity of the change that is occurred in that region and what democracy means to people in the region. i don't think they have i think they underestimate the extent of what's happening in the arab world and i think they underestimated the extent to which arab people want democracy because what we've seen in these

remember when reagan and tip o'neill fixed social security. remember when clinton and a republican congress did welfare reform. this is the time to do important and difficult stuff. and i agree with "the washington post." where's the president? where is the leadership? we're prepared to do difficult things, but he must be a part of it because, well, we're not looking at making an issue here. we're looking at making a law. that requires the signature of the president of the united states. >> schieffer: all we know, of course, is about what is being said in public. we hear the back-and-forth that's being... going on in public. but you and the other leaders have been meeting behind closed doors with vice-president biden. i guess i would ask you this question. what is your take on the administration right now? do you believe that president obama is, in fact, serious about trying to get something done here? >> no, i don't. >> schieffer: really? >> i have now had a number of private conversations with the president and the vice- president. i was hop

this is what we did with bob dole and tip o'neill and ronl reagan. -- ronald reagan. we can do this but we have to have everything on the table. again i worry about this two weeks to get this done. i think that's a bit ambitious. again i want to point out to my colleagues that it was the democratic house and senate and president who passed the bill, the c.r., that cut $41 billion from obama's f.y. 2011 request. $41 billion. so i want to make sure you all don't forget that. the other side doesn't forget that. i'm going to try to continue to remind you of that fact. we have been -- pay me now or pay me later. we paid in december and now you guys have to work this thing out. we want to help you a little bit on how to do it. i reserve my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from kentucky. mr. rogers: madam speaker, i yield three minutes to the chairman of the labor-hhs subcommittee on appropriations, the gentleman from montana, mr. rehberg. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from montana is recognized for three minutes. mr. re

against each other it's a tactic that paid back to the roman empire and was used by julius caesar o'neill powers used to constantly and how the belgians took over all vonda they arbitrarily divided two groups of people based on the with their noses into two groups hutus and tutsis and then turn those two groups against each other it's simple if you can keep the populations anger and mistrust focused on each other you can rule without obstruction look at any despot around the world in particular moammar gadhafi playing the various tribes of libya off against each other for decades and you'll see that the secret to their decades long rule is divide and conquer. there's a lot to hang here with in the middle class right now and who can blame corporate workers have seen basically no increase in their wages in the last thirty years while the cost of living has been going ever higher now it's forcing people deeper and deeper into debt just to make ends meet we see the credit card companies that we're now beholden to take advantage of the fine print hidden charges and high interest rates to screw

you know, as a playwright, i'd grown up in the tradition of realism-- tennessee williams, eugene o'neillenrick ibsen, you know? and then here comes márquez with this entely new way to tell story, and it hadn't been done in the theater very much. and so i... one of the things i wanted to do as a playwright was explore that form in the theater where it didn't exist. and so meeting him and working with him was, you know, one of the... revolutionary. >> hinojosa: so what's the greatest secret that you learned from gabriel garcía márquez that you can share with us? >> well, i'll tell you the irony. he would say... if he were here today, he would say, "keep it real." >> hinojosa: authentic. >> "keep it real." grounded... every bit of "magic" in his books is psychologically grounded. if you look at them all, everything is tied to the emotions of the characters. the example i always give when i talk to students is the storm scene in king lear. shakespeare writes a storm because lear is having his internal storm-- he's going mad-- and so shakespeare gives us the storm in the world. when "magic" i

i'd like to see a compromise such as reagan had with tip o'neill about how to repair social security, make it strong for the long run. i guess it probably won't happen until after 2012 but if you ask me is there in principle a solution to this problem that li kwan you properly identified, there is. and i think it's whether the political system will move toward it. >> another thing you think about and kennedy school thinks about is defining leadership. as a leader, how do you assess president obama? >> i think president obama has tide to set forward an agenda. it's not been easy given the recession which knocked him off course, given the extreme partisanship. >> rose: and inherited a economy in collapse. >> but i think by and large he has been able to and the kind of speech he gave in tucson was an example of the way he can appeal to these larger things that pull us together as a people. some of the things he used in his 2008 campaign i hope he's going to return. >> rose: "the future of power." madeleine albright says "if your goal is to understand world affairs in the 21st century the

con, the most irish person on the celtics is shaquille o'neil. [ laughter ] don't forget about germaincan march in the parade and blow your bagpipes. con, a gust of wind can blow your kilt up and expose your bag and pipe. [ laughter ] >> steve: four in the pouch? >> jimmy: i don't know what that means. >> steve: i don't know what that means. >> jimmy: pro, it's the best day of the year to be a red head. con, then it's back to the circus, you ginger freaks. [ laughter ] those writers. >> steve: indeed. >> jimmy: pro, kiss me, i'm irish. con, and my breath tastes like corn beef and cabbage. [ laughter ] pro, finding a four-leaf clover. con, tattooed on your left buttock in the morning. there you go. [ laughter ] it happens. it happens. >> steve: it's happened to me four times. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: it happened four times? >> steve: yeah. [ laughter ] not good. >> jimmy: can i ask? same buttock? >> steve: no, i got four buttocks. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: weird! i read about you in the guinness book. >> steve: yeah, exactly. it was from -- it was from drinking guinness, also. oh, boy. >> ji

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tip o'neill said, i don't want to lower the a. the benefit. -- the amount of the benefit. and they looked at the actuary and said, what do we do? and he said, recast the eligibility, push it into the out-years and that will get the system calibrated and back to an actuarial soundness. and so they sat down with the actuaries at the table and said i'll tell you what we're going to do. we're going to preserve everybody's social security eligibility today, just -- for those people born after 1943 and before 1947, we're pushing them out from age 65 to age 66. i was born in 1944. with the stroke of a pen, ronald reagan and tip o'neill changed my eligibility by one year. but they changed mine and millions of other americans at the lead of the baby boomers, recalibrated the system and put social security in actuarial soundness until 2050. and then they added two-month increments for eligibility beyond where eventually the law now takes social security eligibility to 67. the president's commission recommended doing a similar thing over the next 50 to 75 years to push eligibility ou

like president reagan and tip o'neill. remember their battle, and they would go have a beer. right? and i don't use any additional security. i will say i am aware, and when i feel that the threat level rises, i do what i have to do to protect myself and my family, and my deepest wish is that people debate, they disagree, solve problems, and my philosophy, i will debate and then go out and have a beer with you. that's how die my bar gapping and associations. >> what has surprised you most about washington, dc. >> that's easy. >> you laugh. what is surprising the most is i travel -- i'm the luckiest guide in the world. no doubt. and i am blessed to be a united states senator. aside from the birth of my kids and my marriage, nothing i'm more proud of. is a travel around the world, around this country, you know what they talk about overseas? from the prime ministers and the presidents and business leaders, down to the poorest farmer pushing a cart, talk about jobs, and since i've been in the united states senate until we got back, we spent 12-15 days talking about nothing do with jobs.

like president reagan and tip o'neill. rimer, battle, battle and then they don't have a a beer. right? no, i don't use any additional security but i will say i am aware. and when i feel the threat level rises, i do what have to do to protect myself and my family. and my deepest wish is that people debate, they disagree, they solve problems but in my personal philosophy is i will debate to death and i will argue to death in a respectful responsible manner, then if i can go out and have a beer with you after, that's how i tried to do my bargaining and negotiating. >> what has surprised you the most about washington, d.c.? >> that's easy. [laughter] >> you laugh but what surprised me the most is, listen, i'm the luckiest guy in the world. no doubt about it. and i am blessed to be a united states senator that could mean anything aside from the birth of my children and my marriage that i'm more proud of, but aside as i travel around the world, and around this country, you know what they talk overseas? from the prime ministers and presidents and business leaders all the way down to th

president reagan and tip o'neill. remember they would battle and then they would go and half of the year. i don't use the additional security but i am aware. i do i have to do to protect myself and my family and my deepest wish and be my personal philosophy is i would debate and argue to death in the respectful responsible manner and if i can go out and have a beer with you after that's how i try to do my bargaining and associating. >> what has surprised you the most about washington, d.c.? >> that's easy. [laughter] >> you left but what is surprising is -- listen, i am the luckiest guy in the world. no doubt about it and i am blessed to be the united states senator. there couldn't be anything aside the volume of more proud of. as i travel around the world to afghanistan, pakistan, israel, jordan and around this country you know what the talk about overseas from the prime ministers and presidents and business leaders all the way down pushing a cart full of pomegranate, talk about jobs and since i've been in the united

and so president ronald reagan and house speaker tip o'neill c ape political odd couple if you've ever seen one, got together and hammered out an agreement. the agreement that we have reached we reached and voted for in 1983 resulted in social security remaining solvent from then until 2037. we wanted to buy 75 years of sovereignty that we bought over 50. so those who sayse today that social security is in trouble i would remind them, untouched with no action by congress, social security will make every payment promised to every social security recipient with a cost-of-living adjustment everyy month of every year until 2037.i there aren't many things you can say that about in washington and for over 25 years this program is financially sound. but the bad news is in 2037uche things change dramatically. untouched at that point, social security benefits will go down 22%. now that is a heavy hit on lower income retirees and middle income retirees and so we know that looming 25 years over the horizon is a terrific challenge. president obama created a deficit commission. senator harry reid w

mary jo o'neill of the eeoc said and ago, there's a level of hatred and animosity that a shocking. i've been doing this for 31 years, i've never seen such antipathy towards muslim workers, close call. another example, the eeoc filed suit against a meatpacking company, swift, alleging discrimination against 160 somali muslim employees. no, and other things, the suit said that quote managers and supervisors and other employees regularly through blood, meat and bones at the somali and muslim employees. so i would ask you, in the area of employment discrimination, this notion that was expounded by someone in the other body of lack of evidence, discrimination against muslims, had he found and employment discrimination similar cases? >> we have. and again these cases did not start in 2000. these cases, and again i want to applaud the administration for aggressively pursuing these cases in a post-9/11 universe. 150% increase post-9/11 is a rather eye-popping figure. >> can i ask you, i would, i want to put a chance, there are quite a few members here today, which i am honored that is the

guy who worked in campaigns around kansas city, pat o'neill sr., and maybe one or two of their other friends called larry moore, a local news reporter, and said we're going to start a parade. and they went out of the bar and they marched a few blocks, and they got a little film on tv that night, and the kansas city st. patrick's parade was born. years later thousands and thousands of floats and hundreds of thousands of spectators, and every year the st. patrick's parade, where was mike murphy? on a garbage truck. he always rode on a garbage truck, his way of signaling to the people of kansas city, i'm no big deal. i don't need a fancy car. i'm happy up here on the garbage truck. he was getting upset about kansas city's heritage, so in 1996 he decided we need to have a cattle drive again through kansas day, hearkening back to the days of a frontier town. what did he do? he started a cattle drive through downtown kansas city. he would get some cowboys, and then invite a lot of his pals, amateur cowboys to get on horses and take these cattle down the main street of kansas city. he loved

sean o'neill talks sexy show secrets. talk about march madness. >> the talk today live on cbs. early show." top of the hour. there we have it. it is opening day. >> yes. >> let's play ball. >> nationals there in washington, d.c. it looks kind of gray out. >> light rain. >> looks like it might be a little chilly and damp on opening day. >> takes on the bravos, hope springs eternal even for the nationals. >> they won. they're undefeated. >> never know what the new season will bring. a couple tough campaigns for them. hoping the nationals have a good season. >> i love baseball. >> you can say it. >> nothing wrong with baseball. hey. as american as apple pie. >> we're in. as you're preparing for your season opener today, what if the traditional key to a happy marriage, things like you should sleep in the same bed, nef gore -- never go to bed angry, 100% honest, maybe ain't the best advice. what if those words of wisdom could be words of disaster. we are rethinking the words for wedded bliss. >> go to bed angry every night. >> in a separate bed. >> in a different home. >> really be

president ronald reagan and tip o'neill came together and literally save social security -- 50 years of solvency. what happens in 2037? she is right about that part. in 2037, that payment goes down 22%. that worries us. my feeling on the deficit commission is do something today, small in comparison to what it might require 25 years ago, that will guarantee is the guarantee solvency beyond. some of my colleagues say do not touch it. i voted for the commission. the question is how much does a social security program add to the nation's deficit? the question is -- the answer is zero. we borrow in a way that the general treasury those social security. on the clinton presidency cooking the books, we enjoyed two or maybe three years of surpluses, and helped to pay down the debt of this country, and to make social security solvent for an even longer period of time. there was greater growth than we have seen in modern memory in business ownership, home ownership, and the overall growth in real wages for american workers. i would stand in defense of what happened during the clinton years. i d

he came together with tip o'neill to solve their problems.oe is a democrat in month, county. -- mcdonald county. caller: i have a couple of things to say, and then i would say some things about c-span. i worked for a natural gas company in 1972. then we had this first so- called oil energy problem. it was made up to start with. there was no problem with oil. cng, compressed natural gas. we had a unit that was clean burning, ran twice as long as on gasoline, but nobody would buy it. for 50 years -- we, being the u.s. -- we are supposed to be the greatest country in the world. no offense to brazil, but they are close to a third world country and the day can wean themselves off of oil. host: we have to leave it there. what did you want to say? caller: it is not fair that we can call once a year. but people on twitter can write in every day, even twice a day. i have seen some people there almost twice a day. host: we are doing our best to balance the two. point taken. guest: people talk about how the government's slow down the events of the econo

guest: it should be dealt the same way president reagan and tip o'neill dealt with social security.curity is 100% solvent through the year 2037. if we did nothing, social security recipients would see a 25% drop in their benefits. yes, which should come together and act now sooner rather than later to make sure we put social security on a long-term sustainable foot and, but we are not going to balance the budget on the backs of social security recipients. the full faith and credit of the united states government is behind the payments. yes, we should come together in a bipartisan basis to ensure its long-term sustainability. host: let me show you the wall street journal story this morning. democrats are split on social security. charleston, west virginia, go ahead. caller: a olivewood like to know what democrats keep saying -- i would like to know what the democrats keep saying about president bush. 550 billion to of that -- $550 billion of that has been repaid. guest: you can look it up under the congressional budget office or anybody's scorekeeping. when president obama was sworn

together president reagan, tip o'neill, the majority and minority members of the senate and the housend the political leaders of the respected parties gathered together and decided to put this issue and the solution to this issue above politics. and they did so. and it was a difficult debate and discussion but we made the changes. they were implemented on an incremental basis. social security brought 30 years of solvency on the basis of that decision. the sky did not fall. the economy did not collapse and the people, when they learned why we were doing what we were doing, to preserve the program, not leave it in the dire situation where benefits would have to be cut or reduced dramatically, they backed what we did and supported. i believe we're in that position now with our entitlements. so if we can propose sensible modest changes that will save these programs, i think the public will gladly support that. mr. president, over the last decade we have watched the storm clouds gather. and we've watched as those fiscal clouds have drawn ever closer and become ever darker. they are now bea

he came together with tip o'neill to solve their problems. host: joe is a democrat in month, county. -- mcdonald county. caller: i have a couple of things to say, and then i would say some things about c-span. >> '73 we had the so-called first oil energy problem. of course, it was made up to start with, there was no energy problem. a problem with oil. but we had a cng, pressed natural gas that was completely safe, clean burning, your engines lasted twice as long as the ones on gasoline, but nobody would buy it, see? and we're 50 years -- united states, we, being the united states, are 50 years behind in this.rs - we're supposed to be the w greatest and the best country in the world, and yet, no fence to brazil, but brazil was like a little old third or worldl, country down there, and they can wean themselves off of oil. >> host: joe we'll have to leavd it there on that point. real quickly, what'd you want on c-span? >> caller: well, it's completely unfair that we on the telephone can call in maybe once a year if we're lucky, but people on twi

into cardiac arrest, everybody came together in a bipartisan way and two old irish men, reagan and o'neill, got it done. my question is, other than social security, why does that have to be so much a part of it since it is not actually helping the deficit, which is what we're trying to get to right here? other than the symbolic value. >> it is more than symbolic. we had no choice. if you look at the mandate, the second part of the man it required us to look at the long term entitlements and the effects they had on the country. in addition, we felt that we had a moral obligation to face up to social security. we're not making this up. social security -- all the interest earned on the trust fund and the funds lent to the general fund or a exhausted before 2037 because of what we did at the end of last year. benefits will have to be cut by 22%. that is under current law. that is not something we made up. in addition, it is a fact that -- i will leave it at that. we have made promises as a country that we cannot meet. we try to do was to restore the solvency of social security for 75 years whi

o'neill the secretary of the army pulled back the rp on the street and said it was basically all the requirements that the user could put down and no constraint on the cost so we are going to do two things. we are going to do not cost tavist come how much can the army of four in production and we ended up with a number of $10 million per platform and we do that by looking out at the army ground combat vehicle fleet and say okay give them the budget we expect to have much to expect to be able to spend per item that you are going to buy out there and that came up to be the number. that left the army with enough upgrades on the system and it was pretty much all at least the next 20, 25 years as we got the cost cap then the army set don't look to the requirements and prioritize them and the ones that were absolutely in the top and others were treatable and others were in that category and that is the way that they finally went out on the street so that's the sort of thing we have to do on the process. another thing we are doing it the joint staff is doing actually now is in line with the

president ronald reagan and tip o'neill came together and literally save social security -- 50 years of solvency. what happens in 2037? she is right about that part. in 2037, that payment goes down 22%. that worries us. my feeling on the deficit commission is do something today, small in comparison to what it might require 25 years ago, that will guarantee is the guarantee solvency beyond. some of my colleagues say do not touch it. i voted for the commission. the question is how much does a social security program add to the nation's deficit? the question is -- the answer is zero. we borrow in a way that the general treasury those social security. on the clinton presidency cooking the books, we enjoyed two or maybe three years of surpluses, and helped to pay down the debt of this country, and to make social security solvent for an even longer period of time. there was greater growth than we have seen in modern memory in business ownership, home ownership, and the overall growth in real wages for american workers. i would stand in defense of what happened during the clinton years. i d

a figure echoed by former bush treasury secretary o'neil. not only are the numbers enormous, but the results are a win-win. consider the five strategies, higher quality care with less errors an -- and infections. prevented innessnesses. secure, complete health records when you need them electronically so your doctors, your lab, your form si, your -- pharmacy, your specialist all know what everybody else is doing. payment to doctors and hospitals based on keeping you well and keeping you well rather than getting more procedures to you. finally, not so much infuriating insurance company bureaucracy hassling both patients and doctors. those ant bad outcomes even -- those aren't bad outcomes even without the savings. what do we draw from this if we keep all these landmarks in mind where we are in this budget debate? our colleagues on the other side, particularly our house republican colleagues, say that they're determined to reduce our national deficit and national debt. but in evaluating our claim, look at h.r. 1, which spends all its cost cutt

this is what we did with bob dole and tip o'neill and ronl reagan. -- ronald reagan. we can do this but we have to have everything on the table. again i worry about this two weeks to get this done. i think that's a bit ambitious. again i want to point out to my colleagues that it was the democratic house and senate and president who passed the bill, the c.r., that cut $41 billion from obama's f.y. 2011 request. $41 billion. so i want to make sure you all don't forget that. the other side doesn't forget that. i'm going to try to continue to remind you of that fact. we have been -- pay me now or pay me later. we paid in december and now you guys have to work this thing out. we want to help you a little bit on how to do it. i reserve my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from kentucky. mr. rogers: madam speaker, i yield three minutes to the chairman of the labor-hhs subcommittee on appropriations, the gentleman from montana, mr. rehberg. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from montana is recognized for three minutes. mr. re

result of the discussions and negotiations that a committee put together by the president and tip o'neill, et cetera, a resolution was reached to that problem, and the congress overwhelmingly voted for it. today is not 1983. today the social security administration has estimated that social security will be able to pay out 100% of promised benefits to every eligible recipient for the next 26 years. now, mr. president, this country does face a whole lot of crises. unemployment is off the wall, child poverty is too high, serious deficit problem. we've got two wars. we're worried about global warming. we've got a lot of problems. but it seems to me to be totally absurd that people say, oh, my tkpw-dness we've got to cut social security because it can only pay out benefits for the next 26 years. go to minnesota and ask a businessperson and say if you can pay out all you owe for the next 26 years, do you think it would be a crisis, people would be shaking their heads. i can guarantee after those 26 years if nothing is done -- and i think something should be done -- social security will be able