$14.3 trillion. and that s a real american issue which we have to deal with in a bipartisan way. so hopefully this agreement today, which we ll vote on hopefully tomorrow, will be the beginning of that bipartisan support and it should be a partnership that we re working toward with which is based in good judgment. common sense approaches, fact-based, not rhetoric, not demagoguing. let s hope this is a first step in the right direction for both parties. congressman, it s jonathan alter. we ve been talking most of the evening about a very close vote in the house and the subtext of your comment suggests that maybe a very substantial majority of republicans will vote for this and it might be a lopsided vote in the house. is that possible? i think anything is possible. you know, in my short seven months tenure here, i ve seen things i didn t think i d ever see. i think anything is possible. i think most republicans will rally behind this and the
He has. but the overall debt is over $14.3 trillion and that is a real american issue which we have to deal with in a bipartisan way, and hopefully the agreement today which we will vote on hopefully tomorrow will be the beginning of that bipartisan support and it should be a partnership that we are working toward which is based in good judgment and you know, commonsense approaches and not demonizing or demagoguery, but approaches that is acceptable for both parties. congressman, this is jonathan alter, and we have been talking about the vote in the hour, and the subtexts of the comments suggested that a substantial majority of the republicans will vote for this, and it might be kind of a lopsided vote in the house. is that possible? well, anything is possible. you know, in my short seven months tenure here, i have seen things that i didn t think i
What we want here. again, we can be real partisan and look to demonize one another and we have done enough of that, and it is quite frankly, one of the things that i have been disgusted by since vi have been in office and we have to pass this. this debt problem is not republican or democrat, it is an american issue. as republicans we feel that the president has been on a spending spree, and we won t be shy about that. he has. but the overall debt is over $14.3 trillion and that is a real american issue which we have to deal with in a bipartisan way, and hopefully the agreement today which we will vote on hopefully tomorrow will be the beginning of that bipartisan support and it should be a partnership that we are working toward which is based in good judgment, a and you know, commonsense approaches and not demonizing or demagoguery, but approaches that is acceptable for both parties.
So that s which is really what we want here. this is, again, we can be real partisan and we can look to demonize one another. we ve done enough of that. quite frankly one of the things i ve been disgusted by since i ve been in office. we have to get past this. this debt problem we have, it s not democrat or republican. it s an american issue. as republicans, we feel that this president has been on a spending spree. we re noting going to be shy about that. he has. but the overall debt is over $14.3 trillion. and that s a real american issue which we have to deal with in a bipartisan way. so hopefully this agreement today, which we ll vote on hopefully tomorrow, will be the beginning of that bipartisan support and it should be a partnership that we re working toward with which is based in good judgment. common sense approaches, fact-based, not rhetoric, not demagoguing. let s hope this is a first step in the right direction for both parties. congressman, it s jonathan alter. we ve
Would urge my colleagues to do on both sides of the aisle. listen to the american people. they are a lot smarter than we give them credit for. they know what s best. they balance their books for the own households and own small businesses every single day. congressman, i don t know if you had a chance to hear, just before you, we were talking to a missouri democrat, emmanuel cleaver who is the chairman of the congressional black caucus. he said, frankly, if i was a republican, i d be dancing in the streets. are you? absolutely not. let me tell you why i disagree. if we had an opportunity today to say our $14.3 trillion debt was gone, then i d be dancing in the streets. we still have a debt crisis. just because we re going to be able to raise the debt ceiling and avert a catastrophe for august 2nd, we still have a very serious problem on our hands. and we still have to deal with entitlements that we know are raising this debt astronomically. are you concerned about this super comm