you have no opinion that the united states senate budget committee won't do a budget? your own budget failed, as senator johnson said, zero votes in the house of representatives. 0-414. and finally we have a majority leader in the senate, the democrat-led senate by harry reid who last year said very clearly he thought it would be foolish for the united states senate budget committee to do its job and for us to pass a responsible fiscal blueprint for this country, a budget. that's what every american does at home, in our small businesses, and this is just absurd. you know, if you can't pass a budget, you should be fired. and i think that the president should be fired for failing to lead on this issue, and i also think that the democrat senate in terms of the majority leader should be fired, because if you can't get the basics of putting a budget together for this country, then you don't deserve to lead this country, and that's what this salve todis about tod. we're about to go into a budget hearing that's a sham. why have a budget dmt you're not going the basic of budget

united states. >> how budget committee is endorsing romney and so is freshman tea party senator. >> i'm totally committed to believe he is committed to saving america. >> romney is looking ahead. >> this is an election about what america is going to be. >> romney has a commanding lead in delegates. and rick santorum is clearly tired of hearing about it. >> reporter: santorum is shrugging off his endorsement. >> i think it shows that the establishment is getting nervous. >> but santorum has reason to be concerned, too. tuesday, it's his last chance to win a big prize in the midwest before the gop race heads to his home state of pennsylvania. >> he says he won't concede until someone else wins. >> the u.s. and some of the other nations are warning the syrian president time is running out for him to implement the peace plan brokered by the u.n. and arab league. the conflict is officially over. amateur video suggests the government continues attacks against citizens. while an antiasad protest was held nearby. hillary clinton says the time for discussion is over. >> we called for the immediate end to the kill

united states! >> house budget committee chairman paul ryan is endorsing romney and so is freshman tea party senator juan johnson. >> i totally believe he is committed to saving america. >> and with the republican establishment and prominent tea party members lining up behind him, romney is looking ahead. >> this is an election about what america is going to be. >> romney has a commanding lead in delegates an rick santorum is clearly tired of hearing about it. >> is romney getting the delegates? >> i'm not talking about that anymore. we're just focused on doing well in wisconsin. >> santorum is shrugging off romney's endorsements and laughing off the announcement that romney is about to lock up the nomination. >> i'm encouraged. it shows the establishment is getting nervous. >> santorum has reason to be concerned, too. tuesday is his last chance to win a big prize in the midwest before the g.o.p. heads to his home state of pennsylvania. newt gingrich is under immense pressure to drop out but said he won't concede until someone else wins. brian mooar, nbc news, washington. >> and ahead of tuesday's p

united states. >> reporter: house budget committee chairman paul ryan is endorsing romney. so is freshman tea party senatoron johnson. >> i totally believe he is committed to saving america. >> reporter: and with the republican establishment and prominent tea party members lining up behind him, romney is looking ahead. >> this is an election about what america is going to be. >> reporter: romney has a commanding lead in delegates and rick santorum is clearly tired of hearing about it. >> if romney gets the 1144 delegates before -- >> i'm not talking about this anymore. we're just focused on doing well here in wisconsin. >> reporter: santorum is shrugging off romney's endorsements and laughing off talk that romney is about to lock up the nomination. >> i'm encouraged by all of this. i think it shows that the establishment is getting nervous. >> reporter: but santorum has reason to be concerned too. tuesday is his last chance to win a big prize in the midwest before the gop race heads to his home state of pennsylvania. brian mooar, nbc news, washington. >>> mitt romney got a big april fools' joke from his ca

it's a responsibility of this committee to pass a budget resolution by april 1st. and of the united states senate to pass a budget by april 15th. did i say august 1st? i meant april 1st and april 159. that's a responsibility. we should take it seriously. i know mr. chairman, you said this might be the wrong time to vote on a plan. it is the wrong time. we should have been voting back in march. that's what the house did. two years in a row the house has met its responsibility. they subjected themselves to be accountable to the american people. we refused to do that here in the senate. senator warner mentioned the word embarrassment. we should be embarrassed. the american people deserve far better. we need to provide some leadership in this country. americans hunger for leadership. and it's getting none. no proposal to save medicare. we've heard last year's budget lost 0-97 in the senate so unserious that not one member of the president's own party voted for it. now 0-14 in the house. the american people need to understand what an abdication of responsibility that is. what an abdication of leadersh

it's the responsibility of this committee to pass a budget resolution by april 1st. and of the united states senate to pass a budget by april 15th. did i say august 1st? i meant april 1st. then april 15th. that's a responsibility. we should take it seriously. i know mr. chairman, you said

senator sessions. is this personal? >> a budget has nothing to do with getting along with the president. you can't have a budget in the united states senate until the chairman of the committeels a hearing and lays out his plan, and then it's all -- you have a chance to amend it. and then it goes to the floor, and you have a chance to amend it. what they've refused to do for three years is bring a budget up and lay one out. and it's because they don't want the american people to see, i think, what their view is and how divided they are and how unable they are to provide a vision for how to put america on a prosperous course, and that's what we need. jenna: senator sessions, i ask you this question with this disclaimer, but this is something we go through every time we talk about budget and money when it comes to congress, you know, there doesn't seem to be a feeling of compromise. and i wonder for the american people, is the message simply that we have to vote everybody out and put in new people that are principled but can compromise, that can figure this out in some way? >> well, we do have a difference of view, and i like my colleagues that have different views. there is a

he's fighting with the house budget committee chairman about a budget that's within passed in the house and meanwhile his own party, senator harry reid in the united states senate doesn't have a budget. a leader. and he should be call harry reid and say get a budget so we can begin this. >> that's the budget resolution and this is the president's budget. how many votes did it get in the house of representatives this week? zero. how soon will reed bring up the budgets pros? >> senator harry reid to write bring it to the floor. nothing to stop it. >> statutorily he they are required under the 1974 budget act to bring up a budget. they have not done so in the last four years. they aren't obligated to pass it but they arable gate today bring it up and they haven't brought it up. we are running a $3.6 trillion enterprise called the united states government and he with have not pass add budget under the regular order for an entire year since 2007. we pass add budget for half the fiscal year in 2008, for fiscal year 2009. but this president is operating by not having a budget passed in the normal order of things so the government knows how much money it's going

budget committee yesterday, why i did it, and where we're headed. mr. president, i have heard people say repeatedly the united states senatehas now gone for some thousand days since passing a budget resolution. mr. president, what they're not telling people is that last year instead of a budget resolution, the senate and the house and the president signed a budget control law. the occupant of the chair knows very well-being a former attorney general that a resolution is purely a congressional document. never goes to the president for his signature. the budget control act that we passed last year, it's true, was not a resolution, it was a law. signed by the president of the united states. mr. president, that law, the budget control act, said we're going to set the budget for this year and next, but beyond that we are also going to put in place ten years of spending caps saving $900 billion. now, on the question of whether the budget control act represents or takes the place of a budget resolution, for this year and next, let me just read from the text. because i think it makes it abundantly clear. it says "the allocations,

and it's the responsibility of this committee to pass a budget resolution by april 1st, and of the united states senate to pass a budget by april 15th. did i say august 1st? i mean april 1st. then april 15th. that's the responsibility. we should take it seriousliment seriousliment -- seriously. i know, mr. chairman, you staid this might be the wrong time to vote on a plan. it is the wrong time. we should have been voting it back in march. that's what the house did. two years in a row now the house has met its responsibility. they subject for themself to be accountable to the american people. we refuse to do that here in the senate. senator warner mentioned the word "embarrassment." we should be embarrassed. the american people deserve far better. we need to provide some leadership in this country. americans hunger for leadership. it's getting none. when the president proposes four budgets ands has yet to propose anything to save social security which, by the way, by the year 2035 will have a cash deficit of $6 trillion, no proposal to save medicare. we've heard last year's budget lost 0-97 in the senat

and i, ranking republican on the budget committee, will be raising points of order at the appropriate time. this means it would take 60 votes in the united states senate, 60. our hundred members to say we don't want to agree and follow the law we passed last summer, that we promised the american people would make a difference and we'll just spend this money anyway because we think it has an important need. under the senate rules, no committee can bring a bill to the floor that spends even one penny more than already is going to be spent under the current law, or increase the deficit more than it would increase under current law. current law is the budget control act of last summer, and it was passed, as we all recall, as part of a major debate over the debt ceiling, the raising of the debt ceiling so we continue to borrow money, borrowing at the rate of about 40 cents of every dollar we spend is borrowed. we knew that had to end, so some decisions were made and spending was constrained although i would contend not nearly enough. in other words, the spending and debt under the postal bill violates the debt limit agreement reached just last summer. in a

united states senate hasn't. why hasn't the majority here in the senate passed a budget? they have all the votes. they have them in the budget committee to refer a budget to the floor. they have the votes. they have the number of members on the floor of the senate to pass a budget. why do they refuse? is it because they have no solutions to our problem? or is it they have a solution, they simply don't want the american people to know what it is. trust us, we'll take care of us. is it also because they don't want their fingerprints on that solution? they don't want to be held accountable? i think more likely that's the reason we haven't passed a budget here in the senate for three years now. i guess they could claim that president obama's budget is their plan, but the problem with that is president obama's last two budgets have been so unserious, last year his budget lost in this body, the united states senate, by a vote of 0-97. not one member of the president's own party gave it a vote. as a matter of fact, not one member of the party, of the president's own party was willing to bring that budget to the floor for a vote. republican

it is a responsibility of this committee to pass a budget resolution by april 1. the united states senate can pass on by april 15. did i say august 1 that i meant april 1. that is their responsibility. we should take it seriously. i should have been voting and back in march. this is what the house did. they subject themselves to be accountable to the american people. we refuse to do this in the senate. we should be embarrassed. the american people deserve far better. we need to provide some leadership in this country. americans hunger for leadership. it is getting done. they have yet propose anything to save social security, by the year 200035 will have a deficit of six trillion dollars. we have heard last year's budget was zero to 97 in the senate. not one member of the president's own party and voted for it. the american people need to understand what an abdication of responsibility and leadership that is. how can make a choice? they do not know what the other side is for. the other side wants to take over 1/6 of our economy. i guess they are ok with government outweighing 24% of gdp. i

and i, ranking republican on the budget committee, will be raising points of order at the appropriate time. this means it would take 60 votes in the united states senate, 60. our hundred members to say we don't want to agree and follow the law we passed last summer, that we promised the american people would make a difference and we'll just spend this money anyway because we think it has an important need. under the senate rules, no committee can bring a bill to the floor that spends even one penny more than already is going to be spent under the current law, or increase the deficit more than it would increase under current law. current law is the budget control act of last summer, and it was passed, as we all recall, as part of a major debate over the debt ceiling, the raising of the debt ceiling so we continue to borrow money, borrowing at the rate of about 40 cents of every dollar we spend is borrowed. we knew that had to end, so some decisions were made and spending was constrained although i would contend not nearly enough. in other words, the spending and debt under the postal bill violates the debt limit agreement reached just last summer. in a

senate budget committee, senator conrad, was chairman, moved out a budget, but the majority leader, senator reed, decided it was going to be uncomfortable to vote on that budget. now, the united states code requires that by april 1 the budget committee produce a budget, and by april 15 it is voted on the floor. the congressmen and senators who passed the budget act in 1974 that did that because we weren't having budgets moved promptly and on time, they laid out how it should be conducted, they didn't put down that you lose your pay if you don't produce a budget. they didn't put down you go to jail if you violate the statute. they just said that you should do it. so there is no penalty in the code. senator reed blocked the budget from coming to the floor three years ago. then last year, despite the code requiring that we have a budget, senator reed decided in his -- and his democratic colleagues decided they didn't want to have a budget even in committee. they blocked it in committee. there was no budget in committee, as the law required, no budget brought to the floor except senator mcconnell forced a few votes but without the normal debate that you have on a budget process as it mo

it is a responsibility of this committee to pass a budget resolution by april 1. the united states senate can pass on by april 15. did i say august 1 that i meant april 1. that is their responsibility. we should take it seriously. i should have been voting and back in march. this is what the house did. they subject themselves to be accountable to the american people. we refuse to do this in the senate. we should be embarrassed. the american people deserve far better. we need to provide some leadership in this country. americans hunger for leadership. it is getting done. they have yet propose anything to save social security, by the year 200035 will have a deficit of six trillion dollars. we have heard last year's budget was zero to 97 in the senate. not one member of the president's own party and voted for it. the american people need to understand what an abdication of responsibility and leadership that is. how can make a choice? they do not know what the other side is for. the other side wants to take over 1/6 of our economy. i guess they are ok with government outweighing 24% of gdp. i

and i, ranking republican on the budget committee, will be raising points of order at the appropriate time. this means it would take 60 votes in the united states senate, 60. our hundred members to say we don't want to agree and follow the law we passed last summer, that we promised the american people would make a difference and we'll just spend this money anyway because we think it has an important need. under the senate rules, no committee can bring a bill to the floor that spends even one penny more than already is going to be spent under the current law, or increase the deficit more than it would increase under current law. current law is the budget control act of last summer, and it was passed, as we all recall, as part of a major debate over the debt ceiling, the raising of the debt ceiling so we continue to borrow money, borrowing at the rate of about 40 cents of every dollar we spend is borrowed. we knew that had to end, so some decisions were made and spending was constrained although i would contend not nearly enough. in other words, the spending and debt under the postal bill violates the debt limit agreement reached just last summer. in a