>>ell, it's a popular program, buit's also arogram that's unstainable, like the rest of the health ce system. and the costs are eloding. the speech wt well. as i said, thought it wa a great speech. thers a guy in washgton named doug elman dorf who heads the conessional budget office. heould utr a sentence at a hearing in a few wee and it could undermine it all. he could it err sentence where he says "this doe not reduce costs, this increasethe decits. then baby bara obama's own promise he's g to not si the bill. he's actually t to substantively bend the cost cue. >> he did a little biof that, i think, wh a proposal endorsing the insurance tax which someepublicans have embraced before. charlie,s ing to be a very messy procs for thenext seven weeks. joe califo can talk out what the legislave process is like. it is an absute can national guard that ts thing is a slam dunk in the house. between some liberals who tnk it doesn't go far enoug and some conservative, some blu do who say i w't vote for a public option. ey have delicate maneuvering to do in the house. that's the balancing a. tha

deficit in the coming decade, we shou tart assistance to those in the greatest need whout creating unstainableew titlement programs. >>reporter: baucus envisioned ying for the n programs with a half-trillion dolrs in cuts to existingovernment health plans, and 50 billion in new taxes and fees. but sena republican leader, mitch mcconnell, denouncedll of the democratic-led eorts as unaffoable government trusions. >> people wantore choice and competition in the heth care market they can pick a plan that would work for their faly not one dictad by politicians washington. >> reporter: at thwhite house, spokman robert gibbs called the baucus bill an "iortant building bck". the fullenate finance cmittee plans to meet tuesday to begin its conseration of the baus plan. >> ifill: you can listeno baucus senatobaucus's news conference and rd analysis of his proposal on our webse newshour.pbs.g. ifill: in other news today stocks rosegain, on word that industrial output was up in august. the dow jones indurial average gain 108 points to close above 9791. the nasdaqose 30 points to ose at 2133. nato annnced

>>ell, it's a popular program, buit's also arogram that's unstainable, like the rest of the health ce system. and the costs are eloding. the speech wt well. as i said, thought it wa a great speech. thers a guy in washgton named doug elman dorf who heads the conessional budget office. heould utr a sentence at a hearing in a few wee and it could undermine it all. he could it err sentence where he says "this doe not reduce costs, this increasethe decits. then baby bara obama's own promise he's g to not si the bill. he's actually t to substantively bend the cost cue. >> he did a little biof that, i think, wh a proposal endorsing the insurance tax which someepublicans have embraced before. charlie,s ing to be a very messy procs for thenext seven weeks. joe califo can talk out what the legislave process is like. it is an absute can national guard that ts thing is a slam dunk in the house. between some liberals who tnk it doesn't go far enoug and some conservative, some blu do who say i w't vote for a public option. ey have delicate maneuvering to do in the house. that's the balancing a. tha

again who a democrat appointed the director of the congressional budget office says his budgets are unstainable. i.e. they will wreck the economy. wreck it. that the top democrat in the senate budget committee said these deficits will destroy america. whatoes the president do? he pass these budgets. people like me say these are unsustainable. they're going to cripple the economy. everybodon the left calls me a right winni -- right wing nutthe new york times" calls me this is funny the leader of the republican attack squad and then two months later president obama says you know what these deficits are unsustainable. he's asked by c pan what -- c-span. when are we running out of money? the president says we're already out of money. now, let me tell you about the 1.5 trillion i want to spend nationalizing healthcare because i already own the bank. i already own the car companies. i already own vast segments of this society that no president's ever sewned -- owned befr. i spent more money. i spent 5% of the gdp on a stimulus bill that wasn't even a stimulus bill. nancy pelosi drew up a political bi

if we don't make a positive change, it is unstainable. i yield the floor. a senator: mr. president?the presiding offir: the senator rom south carolina. mr. demint: mr. president, welcome back. thank you for the opportuty to speak. if you were like me, you probably had a number of town halls. i know a number of our colleagues over the holidays did. i saw a number of them on television and saw the many thousands of americans who came to town halls, as they did to mine, who were very concerned about the direction of our country. frankly, in south carolina, i had several thousand people com to different town hall meetings, all with a ver similar point of view. that thought this government had gotten too big, was spending too much money or were taxing too much and taking over too much of our economy. a lot of people were very concerned not just about health care. i can agree with the senator. there are many things we need to do, but the las thing we should do is have this government take it over, and many things we can doo make sure people get more insured. people who came to our town ha