meet them halfway. today, leader reed said we are willing to cut 30 billion. we are trying to reach out, compromise, meet part of the way. as i said before, i think speaker boehner would like to do that, but he has a tiger by the tail, the tea party, that believes compromise is a dirty word. >> senator, there are many details in a version of a budget bill, including the de-funding of planned parenthood. if that was in the house proposal and insistence on complete de-funding of planned parenthood, would you in the senate be able to accept that? >> no. there was some talk about some riders being accepted, but let's be clear, those would be noncontroversial riders we haven't heard about. bottom line, planned parenthood or epa, we will not accept those riders, and any thought to the contrary is wrong. we believe that they don't belong in a budget bill. there can be debate on these