host: we are back with congressmen rick larsen.loughs andbout what is happening with flight delays. this is a headline in the newspaper this morning. the front page of "the washington times" has this headline. that may have you respond to what senator mitch mcconnell had to say yesterday. he was on the floor of talking about this. [video clip] that politicale motives, thousands of people were stuck on tarmac over the last few days. the mismanagement is a source of bipartisan frustration. our goal should not be to score political points on the backs of weary travelers but to fix the problem. the obama administration knew about the sequester for months. there were three days notice to implement the furloughs that are now being blamed for these delays. there was no mention of the magnitude and impact of delays of these furloughs that were just right around the corner. it seems implausible that he did not know about them when he was testifying last week. was the administration hiding the ball from the travelling public? it seems like a

at 8:30, democratic representative rick larsen from washington, the ranking member of the subcommittee on aviation, will take your questions about how automatic budget cuts are affecting air travel. if we will look at the economic effect of barge traffic on the mississippi river. southwest bureau chief from forbes, christopher helman. [no audio]

said washington congressman, rick larsen.ar-old is going to call my office and say, i've been kicked out of head start. replace that money. so while the jet-setters may have an easier time at 30,000 feet. those below them physically and economically seem even farther away than ever. >> we just fooling ourselves. if we think that we are doing the american people any favor by not finding a real solution. >> ezra, are we kidding ourselves with this? the sequester? band-aid or the faa band-aid would seem to draw attention away from the actual pain being felt by many people who aren't actually in congress and boarding airplanes this friday. >> we're not kidding ourselves, we're saying to the american people, we're the worst people in the world. we are terrible people who don't -- i find this stuff appalling. i find the washington reaction to sequester genuinely infuriating. we went from white house tours, literally everything one might cut in the government, should be the very first thing you cut in the government. it could not ma

no host: we are back with congressmen rick larsen. we will talk about furloughs and what is happening with flight delays. this is a headline in the newspaper this morning. the front page of "the washington times" has this eadline. that may have you respond to what senator mitch mcconnell had to say yesterday. he was on the floor of talking bout this. >> i would argue that political motives, thousands of people were stuck on tarmac over the last few days. the mismanagement is a source of bipartisan frustration. our goal should not be to score political points on the backs of weary travelers but to fix the problem. the obama administration knew about the sequester for onths. there were three days notice to implement the furloughs that are now being blamed for these elays. there was no mention of the magnitude and impact of delays of these furloughs that were just right around the corner. it seems implausible that he did not know about them when he was testifying last week. was the administration hiding the ball from the travelling publi