could reduce all of the cuts at a time when the -- most of the economists tell us that with the federal government placing money into the economy and if we begin to snatch it out, we could accelerate a double dip if you will. and unemployment could jump from 9.2% to whatever it is. when we talk about federal cuts, every time we do a federal cut it means we're going to take some jobs away. and that's the one thing that we can't afford to do right now. >> one of the statements the president made tonight was that one of the things this deal does that he felt it does is to make sure that the cuts don't happen so abruptly that they drag on a fragile economy. are you not confident of that? >> well, i heard the president say that, and i am hoping that when we read the language that we will see that there is nothing done abruptly because i think that would lose some votes. so woo have to see the details. and again, we want to go to the discretionary spending.