issue of cutting government spending. democrats added 6 1/2 billion dollars in proposed cuts to the $4 billion contained in the two-week temporary spending bill that goes into effect next week. that s a total of 10 1/2 billion dollars in budget cuts, but a fraction of the $60 billion that republicans are looking for. vice president biden, the president s budget director and chief of staff met on the hill with house and democrat republicans and house senate republicans and democrats. democrats say they agreed to $40 billion in cuts when they took the president s 2011 budget off the table and began spending at 2010 level which is are $40 billion less, but 2011 budget was never passed and republicans say that doesn t really count as budget cuts. that s not cuts. that s the status quo. that has been the position that harry reid has taken all along and what we say is we need to cut spending. we need to trim the fat. we need to do what most americans are doing, which is to find out how we
these are some of your favorites, tongue and cheek. yeah. i guess they are. they also have $4.8 million again for wood utilization research. we spend $105 million on that research since 1985. 25 years of research and they can t figure out how to use wood. so and the problem problem with the alternate engine is that it s anonymous so we have a list of 6,631 projects so far, $8.6 billion, about half of what it was in 2010 so there s progress being made but i think the message on november 2nd was zero earmarks, not just 50% reduction. back track just a second, though, how can that half a billion dollar engine be anonymous? i thought that s one of the things is every one was going to have their names on stuff. well, in the last congressional book for 2010, 6 1/2 billion dollars out of the total of $16.5 billion did not have the name of any member attached to the particular project so they violate their own rules all the time.
we know as well that there are serious problems with the transportation security administration and those are the people that administer rail, subway, safety in this country. we are going to look at this issue today and tomorrow. we know this as well. 6 1/2 billion dollars goes for aviation security. do you know how much goes how much? goes for rail transit? $110 million. next year, it s supposed to go up to $137 million. right. the only thing i ve seen is posters of a very wet bag saying if you see something, say something. that s basically it. i m on the railroad every day. it s something i d think about. if you see something, say something is becoming absolutely more important. and we tomorrow are going to look at what has been done and what hasn t been done and what can be done. gotcha. all right, peter johnson, thanks so much. thank you. immigration debate becomes
but the eurozone and international mandatory fund to help pull it out of its crisis but engineer channel chancellor angela merkel says they must finish talks with the international monetary fund before a decision is made on how much money greece gets. a man charged in a plot to attack the new york city sub sway system is planning to plead not guilty, czar een ahmed zai is intrect dollars ahmad zai is expected to enter that to enter that plea today. sales of brand new homes, they surged to 27 percent in the month of way in the month of march, far beyond the increase that analysts were expecting. congress is getting ready to spend 6 1/2 billion dollars a year and it s all your money. the house passing a bill to spend all of that dough to
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