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of $5.5 billion. there are also large transfers that kathleen sebelius can use as director -- secretary of the department of health and human servicesn reach into other funds. some would argue that the definition allows for a limited capacity to roll those dollars into the implementation of obamacare. as we face a potential government shutdown that i would argue would be initiated by the senate and the president -- if that should happen, there are still $23.6 billion already sitting there in the fund to implement obamacare. so if there is a government shutdown, the irony of it would be the federal government workers that would be working would be implementing obamacare while there was a government shut down because the funding is there and the shutdown would not affect that if it were to come about. the individual you mentioned, i am not familiar with and i know i need to follow up on that, too. host: independent from michigan. robert, good morning. caller: good morning. why is the simpson-bowles deficit reduction plan so negative to some many people? it should be implemented immediately with no amendments. you have got to do it and

department of the government. if you use that as the touchstone for terminating programs, we would close down the entire defense department. we would close down the department of commerce. we would close down the department of health and human services. i mean, we would go right down the list and close them all because every one of the departments and every program has some inefficiencies in them. you don't solve the problem by closing a program. you solve the problem by trying to correct the problems that exist. and this is a whole new philosophy for this group of people because when the securities and exchange commission was not equipped to find the bernie madoff episode, their answer to it was let's cut out the s.e.c. or let's reduce this budget, not make it more efficient so it could stop the kind of fraud and abuse that was taking place but let's just -- let's just starve it to death. and that's the same philosophy that's being applied in this context, mr. chairman. because the program is inefficient, which all of us agree it has been. their answer is let's close it down. ours is to make the program more efficient and work for the purposes for which it was intended. and that's what we ought to be devoting our attention to today

use an enforcement hammer to make sure that they follow and ensure compliance. buried within the president's budget is a request for not better health care, a 315% increase for the public affairs office at the department of health and human servicesone of the primary tasks of the public affairs office is to sell the health care reform. furthermore, they've requested 1,270 new internal revenue service agents to implement the law and enforce the mandate. while speaker pelosi may have been advocating passing bill so we can learn what was in it, many americans weren't so naive. they understood exactly what was in it. they understood you can't spend a dollar twice. they understood that if something sounds too good to be true, then it probably is, and they know that when someone shows up from the government offering a carrot, you better look for the stick. last year to craft health care policy on a bipartisan basis was squandered. this missed opportunity will continue to haunt us. unfortunately i worry that the second year under this oppressive piece of policy isn't going to be a bit better than the first. it's regrettable that we've reached this point, but, of course, we were warned. so this occasion, this solemn first anniversary to