the republican budget fails to do that and the republican budget will not have democratic support. we are here as one of the previous speakers said, now is the time, now is the time to preserve medicare and democrats will. i urge a no vote on the republican plan. thank you. the chair: the gentlewoman's time has expired. -- the gentlelady's time has expired. the gentleman from wisconsin. mr. ryan: mr. chairman, at this time i'd like to yield myself the remainder of the time and address the house from the well. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. ryan: first of all, mr. chairman, i want to thank our staffs. the democratic staff and the republican staff for all of their hard work in getting us to this moment. i want to ask my colleagues a question. i want to ask the american people a question. you know, i remember one of the worst moments i had in congress was the financial crisis of 2008. seems like it was yesterday. we had the treasury secretary, we had the federal reserve chairman coming here talking about crisis. talking about bank collapses. and what came out of that was

but the republican budget is the wrong choice for america. i urge every american to read this budget because if you do no amount of spin can hide the fact that this is a wrong turn for america. it's a yellow brick road for the already prosperous but it's a dead end for the rest. just today we had an analysis come out from the former economic advisor to john mccain when he was running for president, mark zandi, the chief economist at moody's an lytics who said the republican plan will cost america 1.7 million jobs by the year 2014 with 900,000 jobs lost next year. and that republican budget violates the warning from the bipartisan commission that we need to do the cuts and the deficit reduction in a responsible way. the co-chairs of the president's fiscal commission stated that the republican budget, and i quote, fall short of the balanced comprehensive approach that we need for a responsible plan. they are absolutely right. it is not balanced, it's a totally one-sided approach to deficit reduction, because when you sweep away all the soothing,

i'm going to talk about the republican budget. the budget proposal we are debating today is reckless and misguided. it slashes taxes for the wealthy and pays for them by gutting medicare. let me explain that. it cuts over $30 billion in the first 10 years and by forcing seniors into private health insurance plans after 2022. they are right. if you are 54 years old now, and you have high blood pressure, and you have high diabetic or prediabetic, you won't get medicare, you'll get a voucher. insurance companies don't want to cover those who are diabetic or prediabetic or have high blood pressure. it gradually excludes seniors and eventually raising the age to 67 for medicare. c.b.o. says in 2022 the republicans will more than double the cost paid by medicare enrollees. we are throwing seniors out of medicare and into uncertainty in the private insurance market while providing tax breaks to the wealthy. it doesn't make sense. i also represent the port of houston, the 10th busiest port in the world. the port's facing dredging crisis. e

budget. it will give us a surplus in 10 year. the republican has unveiled their road to ruin budget. but instead of focusing on creating jobs, republicans are ripping the bannedage off our economy before the scar has even healed. the people's budget focuses on real solutions. instead of billion dollar handouts to big oil we're investing in job creation and loans for higher education. instead of ending medicare as we know it, we keep our promise to secure health care for seniors. instead of giving more breaks to millionaires and billionaires, we're committed to tax relief for the middle class. we must eliminate the deficit but we must do it responsibly, and that means taking the republican target off the backs of working families. the chair: the gentlewoman yields back. the gentleman from indiana. mr. rokita: thank you, mr. chair. at this time i yield 2 1/2 minutes to the gentleman from wisconsin. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for 2 1/2 minutes. >> thank you, mr. chair. i rise in opposition to the congressional progressive caucus substitute budget. one of the concerns i have,

the republican budget cuts medicaid three quarters of a trillion dollars. seniors will be, not 10 years from now, but immediately as the budget reductions take place, will be thrown out of nursing homes. i just finished a conversation not more than two hours ago with the owner of nursing homes in california, he says, don't let them do it. we're just hanging on. any further reductions, any reductions in the republican bill, will force us to send out of our nursing homes thised me -- the people covered by medicaid. who are these children in the children in poverty. the children in poverty get medical services from medicaid. medical in california. 20% are those the people you want to throw out in the street in you will do it. i yield back my time. the chair: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. brady: i remind our colleagues that are democrats in congress slashed half a trillion from our seniors' care, including nursing homes, just last year and i remind our colleagues that medicare is insolvent. the biggest threat to se

budget amendment and its history. after listening to my colleagues across the aisle present the republican study committee's budget this morning, i'm apt to wonder what is it that they're actually studying other there? hopefully we'll be able to set the record straight. as a reaction to f.d.r.'s new deal, republican congressman harold knudsen of minnesota introduced the first version of the amendment in 1936. like many constitutional amendments this resolution did not receive a hearing or a vote. during president dwight d. eisenhower's first term, the judiciary committee of a barely democratic senate held its first hearing on this amendment and it again did not receive a vote. after these partial defeat the balanced budget amendment supporters shifted their focus to the states. from 1975 to 1980, 30 state legislatures passed resolutions calling for a constitutional convention to propose this amendment directly to the states that is, they sought to bypass congress and the con fregsal amendment process. the election of president reagan and the republican senate in 1980 renewed hopes for a balanced budget amendment and pa

the republican budget fails to do that and the republican budget will not have democratic support.e of the previous speakers said, now is the time, now is the time to preserve medicare and democrats will. i urge a no vote on the republican plan. thank you. the chair: the gentlewoman's time has expired. -- the gentlelady's time has expired. the gentleman from wisconsin. mr. ryan: mr. chairman, at this time i'd like to yield myself the remainder of the time and address the house from the well. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. ryan: first of all, mr. chairman, i want to thank our staffs. the democratic staff and the republican staff for all of their hard work in getting us to this moment. i want to ask my colleagues a question. i want to ask the american people a question. you know, i remember one of the worst moments i had in congress was the financial crisis of 2008. seems like it was yesterday. we had the treasury secretary, we had the federal reserve chairman coming here talking about crisis. talking about bank collapses. and what came out of that was really ugly legisl

the republican budget fails to do that and the republican budget will not have democratic support.here as one of the previous speakers said, now is the time, now is the time to preserve medicare and democrats will. i urge a no vote on the republican plan. thank you. the chair: the gentlewoman's time has expired. -- the gentlelady's time has expired. the gentleman from wisconsin mr. ryan: mr. chairman, at this time i'd like to yield myself the remainder of the time and address the house fr the well. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. ryan: first of all, mr. chairman, i want to thank our stfs. the democratic staff and the republican staff for all of their hard work in getting us to this moment. i want to ask my colleagues a question. i want to ask the american people a question. you know, i remember one of the worst moments i had in congress was the financial crisis of 2008. seems like it was yesterday. we had the treasury secretary, we had the federal reserve chairman coming here talking about crisis. talking about bank collapses. and what came out of that was really ugly l

budget shut down. now i look at the house republican proposed 2012 budget plan with paul ryan. hosted by the american enterprise institute and runs for almost one hour. terprise i just under an hour. >> this morning paul ryan presented the house republican budget to his colleagues on capitol hill. budgets are not just financial documents. they are moral documents. they speak volumes about our priorities on how we govern ourselves, see our future, and the country that we choose to pass on to our children. they tell a story about our character. paul ryan understands this and today comes to us to talk not just about the but of the budget, but the why. he joins us here in believing that freedom, the art of america, is painted on many campuses. the government budget is one of them. the congressman has been here many times in the past year and as always it is an honor for us to host him as he presents his courageous work for the future of our nation. he will speak for about 20 minutes and then host his own question and answers. please join me in welcoming congressman paul ryan. [appl

also reflected in this republican budget. to make matters worse, the republican plan does not reduce the deficit. the nonpartisan congressional budget office determined that this budget actually adds $8 trillion to the national debt over the next decade because its cuts in spending are far outpaced by the guyantic tax cuts for the -- gigantic tax cuts for the richest americans. our seniors cannot afford this budget. it would deny them health care, long-term care, and the benefits they earn and deserve. the republicans' choice to privatize medicare, turning more power over to the insurance companies will result in reduced coverage and exposure to greater financial risk for our seniors. the congressional budget office determined that under the republican budget seniors out-of-pocket expenses for health care would more than double and could almost triple. to put that into context, the congressional budget office found out by 2030 seniors would pay 68% of premiums and out-of-pocket costs under the republican plan compared to only

the house republicans budget. privatizers medicare from the floor of the senate for an up or down vote basically is forcing the republican party to own their own radical ideas by voting to privatized medicare because he knows that no one can win in two thousand and twelve on a platform that they accomplish selling off medicare it's a for profit health insurance c.e.o.'s who want to add millions to the private bank accounts good jobs that are the bat john mccain the man who is almost president as much of a student of history what's a solution to the libyan war continue to drag on an interview with press a.f.p. yesterday mccain said. i think we can do the same thing we did in the afghan struggle against the russians there are ways to get weapons in without direct us supplies supply. let's arm the rebels even though we have no clue clue who they are just like we arm the afghans back in the eighty's that worked out really well with give you know some of the nod all as weapons and they eventually went on to become the t

budget committee from south carolina. democratic representative david cicilline from rhode island, representative dennis ross, a florida republican and another member of the budget committee, john yarmuth, a democrat from kentucky and we'll look at the effects of a shutdown with "washington post" reporter ed orgs keefe. "washington journal" is on every day at 7:00 a.m. eastern. >> can the throvets a shutdown at week's end, house and senate leadership continue their discussions to fund the government to the end of the fiscal year. access each day's debates in their entirety at c-span's congressional chronicle with complete timelines and transcripts of every house and senate session at c-span.org/congress. >> the c-span video library has just won a peabody award. now a year old, you can watch every program that is aired on the c-span network since 1987. over 170,000 hours of archived video, all searchable and free. it is washington, your way. >> the republican-led house budget committee today approved a spending blueprint for 2012. passing after a full day of deliberations on a 22-16 partyline vote. next stop for the measure is deb

every member of the budget committee, every member of the budget committee, republicans and democrats alike, understand that rising health care costs represent a huge challenge for the federal budget, as they do for every family budget, because the reality is the health care costs in medicare and medicaid have been tracking the health care rising costs in the rest of the health care system over the last 30 years. just the last 10 years, the growth and cost of medicaid is much lower than the increase of health care costs in the private sector. so when you look at this problem you have to recognize it is the challenge to get overall health- care costs down. and that is why passing the affordable care act last year was so important, because it is designed to drive down the costs per person of health care over the long run. in fact, we heard some talk earlier today from dr. rivlin's approach. when she talked a few weeks ago before the committee, she indicated it would be a huge mistake to repeal the affordable care act. and here is what she said. "repealing it would cause needless economi

you might say, in short, we democrats just don't think this republican budget is our cup of tea. yes, this is a choice of two futures for our country, but the choice that this budget presents isreally one between their ideology and reality. it's between a fact-based analysis of our economic future and a fiction-based mythology and ideology. the only thing that is really about this budget are the harsh cuts that will bring real insecurity to the many while providing large's for the wealthier americans who have been taking a bigger and bigger share of o national wealth. in this budget, wherever you read the terms "modernize" or "reform," just understand that these are republican you'euphem for a three-letter word that hurts, less. less retirement security. less educational security. less health security. less economic security. this budget does not share the sacrifice, but it certainly does spread the pain. we get less of what matters not because they tackle our soaring national debt in a courageous way, but because of how they choose to tackle that debt consistent with their ideolo

president, this new tea party republican budget gives new meaning to the word extreme. let's look at what they have proposed. this budget dismantles medicare, creating a new private voucher program. so future seniors would have to pay out of pocket for many life-saving health care costs. it does nothing to control health care costs. it simply shifts the costs to the elderly individuals. get this: the congressional budget office estimates that by 2030 under the republican budget plan, seniors would have to pay two-thirds of the cost of their health coverage. future seniors would see their out-of-pocket costs more than double, more than double to to $12,500 a year. at the same time, the benefits would be cut in half. in just 20 years, think about that, people who are now in their 40's, looking ahead when they get on medicare, they'll have their benefits cut in half but they'll pay twice as much for them under the voucher system. this tea party republican budget reopens the prescription drug doughnut hole which we have set in motion to close under the affordable care act. t

and i'm sure that my characterization of the republican budget will be different than the republicans' characterization of their budget, but i will say one thing, that we all agree that we have a fiscal challenge in front of us. we have enormous deficits, we can argue about how we got here, i'm not going to spend time debating that tonight, but we clearly have a challenge. and the future is even more challenging. so the question is, as we approach this budget deficit, this future of deficits, a very, very large national debt, what is the best way to approach it? now the republican answer is that there is only one side of the ledger. now most homes, most businesses have two sides to the ledger. they have an income side and they have an expenditure side. as far as the republicans on the budget committee are concerned, we only have an expenditure side. you've heard the speaker of the house say we only have a spending problem, we don't have a revenue problem. you've heard my senior senator from kentucky, the minority leader of the senate, say we don't have a taxing problem, revenue proble

but the republican budget is the wrong choice for america. i urge every american to read this budget because if you do no amount of spin can hide the fact that this is a wrong turn for america. it's a yellow brick road for the already prosperous but it's a dead end for the rest.

profit health insurance companies to actually compete in the marketplace and finally unlike the republican budget the people's budget keeps intact medicare medicaid and social security in fact it raises the cap on social security to make sure that the rich are paying the same percentage of their income as you and i are to keep our promises to america's retiring generations so what do all these details translate to a budget surplus by two thousand and twenty one just ten years from now take a look here's the this is very straightforward here's the president's budget here's the house g.o.p. budget and here's the people's budget the progressive caucus budget by twenty twenty one we're we're actually showing a surplus but ryan budget in the president's budget are both still in deficit both of them are going to take some years until they actually show you know a balanced budget so the progressive caucus the house progressive cards for ten years we can do this all this without throwing the working class of the bus and really not hurting anyone including the reserves of the rich will hardly notice a cou

what the republican budget does is turn back the clock on a fair deal for the american people. every person in this body today

whatever you want to call it does not rise at the rate of health care inflation, and what the republican budget does is say to seniors "you're on your own." >> reporter: alice rivlin was bill clinton's budget director, and worked closely with ryan to develop the premium support model for medicare. rivlin says the key question is how fast the government allows those premium support payments to grow. >> if the cap is set too tight, it will be very hard on seniors. if it is kept too loose and the program continues to grow much faster than the economy is growing, then it is not sustainable. so the point is to get a balance. >> reporter: at its core, house republicans are proposing a much more limited and smaller government, but one that could pay almost a trillion less in interest over the next decade. darren gersh, "nightly business report," washington.

the president's budget and the republicans budget do nothing about our foreign wars only the progressive budget does but that's not all this budget immediately strikes down the tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires got extended at the end of the last year the bush tax cuts and then puts in place a new tax system that levies a millionaire tax with a top rate of forty nine percent meaning america's oligarchy will be back to paying their fair share as they did during the forty years of economic growth in america that saw the rise of the middle class from one thousand nine hundred one nine hundred eighty it also makes billionaire hedge fund managers and trust fund children like paris hilton who earn their living sitting around the pool collecting their dividend checks pay their fair share too because instead of capital gains being taxed at a measly fifteen percent be taxed as regular income just like you and i are taxed on the money that we are as far as corporate taxes go before aggressive budget closes corporate loopholes and taxpayer subsidies to big oil companies and keeps wall str

that would be a big mistake, and yet the republican budget we believe slashes investment. if you project far enough out, it totally eliminates that whole portion of the budget, 100% eliminates it as you go into the future. number two, tax reform. we believe we need to do tax reform. we have tax reform in our budget. as the chairman said, we have to clear out a lot of clutter in the corporate tax reform. there are some things we can sign on today. we don't think there is any justification for providing the big oil companies with special tax breaks. we have all filled up our tanks recently. gas prices are at a high, and profits are even higher, and they don't need, frankly, another give away from the united states congress. we believe we can immediately begin to close some of the loopholes that reward companies that ship american jobs overseas. we don't need a study to do it. but there are other reforms that need to be made, and we call for that in our budget. what we don't call for is another round of tax breaks for the wealthiest people in this country. now our budget says

want to just point them out here as we go through this and then compare these to the republican proposal, the budget proposal we're going to be voting on. the first one is trade. now, the republican proposal doesn't deal with trade and goods because they're not going to do any more harm to it. but this is fair trade policy. this is a policy of trade where we do not give away our manufacturing industry to places like china. i am sick and tired of going into target or any other store in america and finding made in china, made in europe, made everywhere but in america. enough of that. we need to see made in america once again on the store shelves of america and when in california, the california government, not my responsibility, i wasn't responsible for it at the time, when they go out and they build a new bridge, a multibillion dollar bridge they buy steel from china because it's 10% cheaper and i'm going, stop it. stop it. so today, in the resources committee, i introduced an amendment. it's drill, baby, drill, it's our republican colleagues who want to drill everywhere and anywhere and all the time

the road to ruin republican budget proposal will end medicare. it will end a program that 46 million seniors and disabled individuals depend on for their health care. rather than the path to prosperity as it's been designated this budget is more like the road to riches. a road pavinged in gold with lavish handouts for special interests, paid for and built with dollars from senior citizens who will see their hard-earned benefits rashed. we must stop this road to ruin budget, lest it lead to a cliff of catastrophic -- catastrophe for our nation's seniors. thank you, madam speaker, and i do yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? without objection. mr. dreier: madam speaker, i was very saddened this morning to hear the news of the passing of the husband of our former colleague, jane harman. sydney harman lived to, as the report came out, to the ripe young age of almost 93. he was an amazing individual. i knew of him because of his great work in an organization called business executives for natio

in today budget committee chairman paul ryan unveiled the republican 2012 budget.he 10-year plan calls for about $6 trillion in spending cuts. we will hear from congressman ryan next on c-span. then we will get reaction from democratic congressman chris van hollen on the gop budget. later, president obama talks about 2011 budget negotiations to keep the government funded for the rest of the fiscal year. on tomorrow's "washington journal," continue look at the 2012 budget plan. we will talk to house budget committee member republican jason chaffetz, and jim mcdermott. ulton on the continuing mission in libya. earlier, house republicans unveiled their 2012 budget plan. nets, the budget committee chairman paul ryan lays out the details of that 10-year proposal and takes questions. his remarks to the american enterprise institute are just under an hour. >> paul ryan has just presented the house republican budget to his colleagues on capitol hill. budgets are not just financial documents. they are moral documents. it speaks volumes about our priorities about how we gove

the house republican budget touches almost everyone in the country. house budget committee chairman paul ryan, the plan's author, says there is no other choice. >> our budget is our plan to tackle this country's greatest problems. if we don't take on these fiscal challenges head on, we will not be able to do this under our own terms. >> reporter: to head off a debt- driven economic crisis, house republicans propose what they call a "path to prosperity." there are no tax increases; instead, deductions and loopholes are cut, bringing the top individual and corporate tax rate down to 25%. there are no new reductions in defense, but house republicans propose cuts of more than $900 billion over the next decade from the president's plans for education, clean energy, and other non-security spending. another $1.8 trillion in savings come from cuts to programs like food and housing assistance. but ryan's deepest reductions compared with the president's budget are in health care: $1.4 trillion in savings from repealing health care reform; and $735 billion in med

governors and republicans in congress are demanding budget cuts for the middle class at the same time they continue to push for tax cuts for large corporations and the wealthy. so call it what it is. republicans are waging a class warfare in america. republican governors have the gall to attack teachers and firefighters, police officers, other public employees. and in the words of indiana governor mitch daniels, he called them -- quote -- "the privileged elite." end quote. now think about that. are teachers, are firefighters, prison guards, others who are public union -- public union members are the privileged elite in our society, according to governor daniels. and why are they the privileged elite? well, i guess because they actually have pensions. they actually have access to decent health care, and they're making decent wages with decent working conditions. that's the privileged elite. i guess now that the middle class are people who are working for minimum wage at mcdonald's with no health care, no pensions, no retirement, not enough to support their families, i guess t

this week republicans will present their twenty twelve budget proposal that cuts or trillion dollars in spending over the next decade he could guess where those four trillion are coming from medicare medicaid social security that's right republican chairman of the house budget committee paul ryan takes the republicans were put in power last of ever to sell medicare off to for profit health insurance companies. they hand over social security to billionaire hedge fund managers who need more casino chips to gamble with and it's help poor people who can't afford health insurance just suck it up. but when it comes to cutting spending on the backs of oil tycoons ryan wasn't so eager to do away with tens of billions of dollars in oil subsidies to go to some of the most profitable corporations in the history of the world carried out ryan's take on this yesterday on fox news sunday. do you limit a tax breaks do you bring in new revenue by eliminating for instance tax breaks for oil companies and we don't have a tax problem for the total not to live in a tax breaks for big oil and gas those of

budget. the bush years, a deficit for the tax cuts which have been extended with the majority of republicans and some democrats, and two wars overseas in iraq and afghanistan that were off budget and they cost us much. in the future, we are going to see a political armageddon here about this continuing resolution and the budget of this country. and the issue's going to be whether we deal with the superrich or guarantee america's past and care for everybody to have opportunity and a chance. whether we care about the oil companies that make record profits and give the continued deductions, or whether we care about people that need education and health care. medicare is at risk. social security will be at risk. and there's no jobs plan been forward by this congress. that's just the way it is. i yield back the remainder of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentlelady from north carolina rise? ms. foxx: mr. speaker, by direction of the committee on rules i call up house resolution 206 and ask for its immediate consideration. the speaker p

yet to the republican budget slashes investment in that. if you project far enough out, it totally eliminates the portion of the budget 100%. no. 2, tax reform -- we believe that we need to do tax reform. we have tax reform in our budget. as the chairman said, we have to cut out clutter in the corporate tax reform. there are things that we can sign on today. we do not need any justification for providing too big oil companies with special tax breaks. my goodness, we have fulfilled our tank recently. >> prices are at an all-time high and profits are higher. they do not need another give away from the united states congress. we believe that we can immediately begin to close some of the loopholes that reward companies for shipping american jobs rather than american products overseas. we do not need a steady to do it. there are the reforms that need to be made and we call for that in our budget. what we do not call for is another round of tax breaks for the wealthiest people in this country. our budget says that, at the end of 2012, we should go

only four house republicans voted against this gop budget. >>brian: here is a shot from the oakland hills today is looking out towards the san francisco paying you can see the fog hugging the golden gate at the coast. the time of year where we see the persistent see fog at the ocean and it pushes into the bay overnight and that's forgetting tonight. here's a live view of san francisco, there's the moon shining i did notice the buildings in downtown obscured by the low clouds this evening. temperatures are mild in some places especially inland. antioch 66, 60 napa, 60 pleasanton, 54 rebounds san francisco. tomorrow we're going to see changes in the whether we have a weather system that is to the north and that will begin pushing to the south. latinas, sunbreaks of sunshine but we will call it mostly cloudy, with lows in the upper '40's and low 50s with lots of low clouds. if the low clouds slowly begin to clear but then we will see increasing high clouds from the weather system for the afternoon. winds will kick up about 20 or 30 mi. per hour.

creation green energy and education as well as create public health insurance option unlike the republican budget proposal the congressional budget proposal or office rather reports that the progressive budget will actually a little late our nation's deficit entirely by twenty forty so with these two roads in front of america paul ryan's paid by corporate owned republicans and the other by progressives looking out for the rest of us isn't pretty clear which one is best for our nation joining me now to explore this tale of two budgets and how the debate will unfold is our old friend of one of the finest progressive legislators in the house of representatives organ congressman peter de fazio congressman de fazio welcome back to our program reshape the opportunity first you know kind of a setup question here why didn't the democrats deal with the budget last year when they held the house. so it's kind of a said tale you know after we were marched over the cliff accepting the first we did the stimulus with three hundred forty billion dollars of tax cuts having a limited bunch of investment in educati

every member of the budget committee, every member of the budget committee, republicans and democrats alike, understand that rising health care costs represent a huge challenge for the federal budget, as they do for every family budget, because the reality is the health care costs in medicare and medicaid have been tracking the health care rising costs in the rest of the health care system over the last 30 years. just the last 10 years, the growth and cost of medicaid is much lower than the increase of health care costs in the private sector. so when you look at this problem you have to recognize it is the challenge to get overall health- care costs down. and that is why passing the affordable care act last year was so important, because it is designed to drive down the costs per person of health care over the long run. in fact, we heard some talk earlier today from dr. rivlin's approach. when she talked a few weeks ago before the committee, she indicated it would be a huge mistake to repeal the affordable care act. and here is what she said. "repealing it would cause needless economi

it is for the ryan budget, which we expect will pass because the republicans have the majority. the ryan budget is now countered by president obama's speech where he finally positioned himself on what he thinks we need to do. that will start the debate. the next key moment will be when we confront raising the debt ceiling and have to get the parties to agree to do that. >> but me ask you what you thought about the contents of the president's speech. but what about the timing? certainly, there was some adamant in new market over why the president did not weigh in earlier, particularly when you have the bipartisan fiscal commission report late last year. would it have not been better for him to jump aboard late last year rather than leave it to now? >> i am not sure that he wanted to embrace every detail of that commission's recommendations. and i do not think he wanted to pick and choose and present something as a target then for the republicans to attack. but if you wanted to stand back. there are different actions taking place. the senate has a group of six members, three democr

budget but we demand to cult the education of cancer research rather than special interest tax breaks. that's part of the reasons where we are. >> ifill: let's talk about the long-term argument. republicanse put a budget out there. they plan to do their proposal, paul ryan's proposal which he talked about on this program would be at least in part to privatize parts of medicare and to shift some of the burden for medicaid coverage to the states. there are people who say at least this is a first step. what's your response? >> let me say this. what's happening now in the full budget unfortunately is a larger version of what we're seeing on the smaller budget. what do i mean by that? we're seeing the same old ideological agenda where they want to extend tax breaks for the wealthiest americans. they want to extend tax breaks for special interests and then go ahead and cut other important investments in education and other areas and they want to end the medicare guarantee for seniorss. what that would do is force seniors off the medicare program into the private insurance market where their cost of health care are rising. so the entire risk of health care would be borne by the seniors. now...

remember the clinton budget passed without a single republican vote the house not only gave us a balanced budget but a surplus and if we roll back the reagan tax cuts and made millionaires pay at least seventy four percent like they did for more than half of the twentieth century when our nation prospered and the middle class grew and we'd actually have a budget surplus a budget surplus can you imagine how different life in america would be with a budget surplus we'd be pain down our debt year to year we'd be able to use that extra cash to do things that our nation hasn't done in generations since reagan started starving the beast and his words that his government would build new bridges roads new schools we build new science programs like nasa from scratch we renovate our national energy grid we'd invest in clean energy like denmark that were one thousand percent of our energy now comes from windmills like germany did by putting solar panels on people's roofs and now after ten years only solar power is generating more electricity in germany the second cloudy is country and european in th

republican leader as well. let's get back to some calls as the budget deal is reached. a republican collar. bob, are you there? caller: i appreciate you putting me on this evening. i would like to thank all the politicians that finally brought this together. it is greatly appreciated by the american people. one of the things that concerns me is the riders that were in place. i do not think that anyone is interested in taking women's health. there is a money problem with abortions and that is where there was concern. there must be a way to help isolate that particular money from planned parenthood, where it is not coming cold, where it would make sense and we can still find the women's health. and it should not be that hard to do. we have the technology. and the second thing, on the other rider, the epa. i appreciate the president and everyone would like clean and renewable energy. but if they carefully looked at the windmills, they find out that they are not cost- effective, and the ones running in the state of wyoming, they will find that because of the maintenance costs, they are unaffect

republicans in their caucus. let me just say, you seem to budgets today from the republican side. both of which would be a radical change in the direction of this country as my colleague indicated earlier, would shatter the social contract in america. >> if you could put your political hat back on, how bad it though to think the republicans took today? >> well, we encouraged some of our republican colleagues to read the bill because it was pretty clear from some of the comments that they had not read the bill. and let me answer your question by way of making this point. one of their talking points originally was that what they're getting to seniors is the same health care deal, members of congress have that they give to themselves, just not true. not true. what members of congress have and federal employees have is what's called a fair share arrangement. what that means is as the cost of health care in premiums go up, so does the employers share. a government. some members of congress protect themselves against the costs of rising health care. and yet they are asking seniors to ta