action. >> because washington has not gotten the fiscal house in order. to me, this is vindication of the action. we passed a budget according to somebody from s&p to prevent it from happening in the first place. >> this puts pressure on the super committee of 12 lawmakers. the job is to find $1.5 trillion in cuts as part of the debt compromise, but ryan says it could be difficult to achieve if democrats are unwilling to address entitlement. >> i don't think they will find a full fix to republics because democrats never want to put the healthcare bill on the table. >> joe lieberman says he hopes the supercommittee will do what congress failed to do in the debt fight. >> take on the entitlement spending, 60% of the federal budget. if we don't deal with that, we can't balance the federal books. >> another battle in september is to avoid the government shutdown on october 1. none of the annual spending bill has been signed to law.