getting the mage? we ve got new polling that says all of that. and this is important. recent polling may also explain why we haven t got an deal yet. we ll tell you what we re talking about. in any case, americans are speaking out today. good morning, speaker boehner s office. how may i help you? a summer avalanche of phone calls hitting the capitol. president obama asked for it in his address to the nation last night. here it is. house switchboard today getting nearly double the volume of normal phone calls, house speaker baine er s office reporting as many as 300 people on hold for as long as an hour. online the same story. site unavailable. server busy. we found better than one in three congressional web sites either slow or down entirely from all the volume. also multiple calls to the white house switchboard by one of our producers also not getting through. that s what s happening. and it s unusual. and there s new polling out there on the debt issue from pew research
getting the mage? we ve got new polling that says all of that. and this is important. recent polling may also explain why we haven t got an deal yet. we ll tell you what we re talking about. in any case, americans are speaking out today. good morning, speaker boehner s office. how may i help you? a summer avalanche of phone calls hitting the capitol. president obama asked for it in his address to the nation last night. here it is. house switchboard today getting nearly double the volume of normal phone calls, house speaker baine er s office reporting as many as 300 people on hold for as long as an hour. online the same story. site unavailable. server busy. we found better than one in three congressional web sites either slow or down entirely from all the volume. also multiple calls to the white house switchboard by one of our producers also not getting through. that s what s happening. and it s unusual. and there s new polling out there on the debt issue from pew research
self-imposed deadline for a deal and still there is no deal. some on capitol hill, some of even the president s allies are saying this is now in their view time to cut bait and stop going for this big deficit reductions package they ve been talking about and just find the easiest path forward to get the debt ceiling raised and worry about deficit reductions at another time. you know, it seemed like there was some enthusiasm and some progress yesterday. but if the two sides are even further dug in, even further apart so to speak, why is the president still pushing for something big? reporter: well, there s the overt politics of it. he seems to be nominally winning. the republicans in public polls are doing less well and are getting more blame than the president, in part because he s going for something big. but there s also just the simple fact that they have to figure out a way to get votes in the house of representatives to raise the debt ceiling. and they can t get thos
becoming an abnormal crisis. what happened today? reporter: well, there was a lot of process, sanjay. and a lot of discussion and still no break through is the bottom line. we are less than two days away from the president s self-imposed july 22nd deadline for a deal. and still there is no deal. and now some on capitol hill, some of even the president s allies are saying this is now in their view time to cut bait and stop going for the big deficit reductions package they ve been talk about and find the easiest path forward to get the debt ceiling raised and worry about deficit reductions at another time. it seem like there was some enthusiasm and progress yesterday. but if the two sides are even further dug in, even further apart so to speak, why is the president still pushing for something big? reporter: well, there s the overt politics of it. he seems to be nominally winning. the republicans and public polls are doing less well and are getting more blame than the pres
that s the house tonight passing h.r. 2560, better known as cut, cap and balance. now it s a republican and tea party sponsored measure calling for massive spending cuts, a spending cap, and congress passing a balanced budget amendment. only then would the debt limit be allowed to go up, ending the current crisis. the measure was passed with just five democratic votes. senate democrats say they ll defeat it. if somehow they fail, president obama says he ll veto it. in other words, it s doa which is why a lot of democrats are calling it a stunt and a waste of time. earlier today a bipartisan group of senators called the gang of six came out with a proposal of their own that is being taken seriously, including at the white house. and so for us today, democratic fors acknowledge that we ve got to deal with our long-term debt problems that arise out of our various entitlement programs. and for republican senators to acknowledge that, revenues will have to be part of a balance