>> in a matter of speaking. it depends on your perspective, i guess. bill your perspective is now the newfound minority party. i want to show you a number that i think a lot of people are in tune with now more so than ever, okay? in 2010, u.s. government spending grew by $4.3 billion a day. our debt rose from $12.3 trillion about a year ago to $13.9 trillion today. now, is that acceptable? >> well, that's absolutely why we're going to measure the republicans' proposals by the following yardstick, whether it creates jobs, whether it reduces the decifit, and whether it enhances the middle class, and right out of the gate, sadly, they're going to pursue fruitlessly the repeal of health care reform, which actually will explode the decifit by $143 billion in the first ten years and a trillion