Decisions and choices, if we don t do it today i think we ve miss add great historic opportunity. some of your colleagues who aren t tea party people voted for the boehner compromise and they re willing to vote for some other compromise and you re not. what kind of tension is that causing between you and other tea party colleagues? i think there s a difference in strategy and difference in push and look at the numbers and the fact we re 14.3 trillion dollars in debt. none of these plans ever planned on balancing the budget and most of the cuts are eight, nine, ten years from now and my understanding the cuts that will be made in the first year are less than the post office lost last year. you know, that s not enough and that s not what the american people want. they want significant changes, they recognize the enormity of the problem and often times i think my constituents get it better than most of the politicians here in washington. that s right, governor i ll add my decisions ar
Before and, obviously, i ll be supporting this time. did you get a sense on that call that there was any nervousness? do you think there will be difficulty within the republican party getting the votes that s needed to pass this in the house? no, i don t. again, i think it s similar enough to what we just passed. therefore, you know, by that nature, we shouldn t have any problem passing this. and i also think this time you ll have bipartisan support. 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.
That is incredible. we seriously have a balanced budget amendment on the table. it s being talked about. and i think over the next three, four months you are going to see a lot of the american people rally behind a balanced budget amendment. and that s the biggest thing i 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
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 committee at all? well, you know, i think we re concerned about everything, but i m going to
9:00 am on the east coast, 6:00 am out west. marathon talks lead to a new debt deal. at least in theory. the president backs it. so do leaders of both parties. still, no reason to celebrate just yet. in syria, a violent crackdown on anti-government protests. more than 7 0 people killed and counting. and new this morning, a big change to health coverage. the federal government will require insurers who provide birth control without co-payments. now, in just a few hours, we could see the beginning of the end of the debt crisis. it s been the issue in washington for weeks. and you re probably tired of the finger pointing and doomsday predictions. today, that could all come to an end if the house and senate approve a compromised plan. the deal identifies about $1 trillion in spending cuts over ten years and raises the debt ceiling by about the same amount. bipartisan committee must find ways to trim another trillion a, a so-called deficit posse. the president and house spea