ok chris let's continue with the russian economy on the back of this report here can you have a stability budget and still have productive good high productivity because it seems to be kind of a binary here mr. has offered alternatives to the current strategy of the guy. i mean does it make sense to you you can't for a while you know clearly you can to for a period of months over the winter you know emphasizing stability shouldn't do that much damage is the word in terms of growth but you know the danger is of course you get hooked on stability you know everybody refers back to the present a very a search over stability you know gradually became stagnation and then you know we're the last decade or more so that fear is still in everybody's mind to the government just gets stuck in this mindset of stability and doesn't take the risks in terms of the right spending or efficiency or investment policies etc then you know we'll end up in this low growth environment for far too long when we clearly need initiatives to drag up investment in the radio and sometimes those decisions are painful as

chris thehollen also called on house republicans to vote on the clean bill. they spoke for about half an hour. >> i look forward to seeing you this weekend. no one is laughing, ok. let's start. hobby or becerra, chairman of the caucus. xavier bacerra, chairman of caucus. we held a pretty extensive caucus this friday afternoon, even though republicans have completed voting for the week. we do not have a budget in place for our government. we are ready to work. we wish we weren't watching this brinksmanship and fiscal cliff resurface again. it was a bad movie when we saw the first time. it doesn't look any better as a re-run. democrats believe we should be focusing on elected representatives of the people on strengthening the middle class. helping our economy grow more jobs. if we don't have a strong middle class, we may as well turn off the lights. we're not going to create those jobs. we're not going to continue to be a leader in the world if we don't focus like a laser beam on creating middle-class jobs and helping grow the middle class so that they can buy that home, they can send their kids to college. for the life of me, i don't think any of us understand how shut