though we oppose it to get past the government being closed. marsha, sounds reasonable to me. well, in the president s words, those sequester levels would be settled to law and those would be numbers that we would agree to. now what we have to do is look at that ten-year window, or even the one-year window that a continuing resolution covers and say what is going to transpired in that window? the reason you have to have a discussion about obama care and look at what can possibly be delayed in that program is because it has gone from being an 863 billion-dollar program to an estimate of 2.6 trillion. that s no, no, no, those are cbo numbers no, no, you have to show me on the floor i will, i will show you. that s simply not true. i ll show you those numbers because when you re going to look at the cost of these
the arbitrary across the board spending cuts included in the sequester, that we need more targeted spending cuts and more precision like in the spending cuts we make. that to me should be a basis for agreement. i talk to republicans and democrats who both agree. it might be harder to agree on spending levels and what we cut and spend more money on but i don t think anybody is happy with the across the board spending cuts in the sequester that we agreed to, by the way, the republican number, even though we oppose it to get past the government being closed. marsha, sounds reasonable to me. well, in the president s words, those sequester levels would be settled to law and those would be numbers that we would agree to. now what we have to do is look at that ten-year window, or even the one-year window that a
the arbitrary across the board spending cuts included in the sequester, that we need more targeted spending cuts and more precision like in the spending cuts we make. that to me should be a basis for agreement. i talk to republicans and democrats who both agree. it might be harder to agree on spending levels and what we cut and spend more money on but i don t think anybody is happy with the across the board spending cuts in the sequester that we agreed to, by the way, the republican number, even though we oppose it to get past the government being closed. marsha, sounds reasonable to me. well, in the president s words, those sequester levels would be settled to law and those would be numbers that we would agree to. now what we have to do is look at that ten-year window, or even the one-year window that a
we still don t know if the embassy will be closed tomorrow or even in the days to come. atia, you make a good point, this is an area always on high alert. aside from the embassy being closed, have you seen any additional fortifications in the form of blast walls or barricades or anything like that? actually, no, we haven t seen the additional fortification. something with the u.s. embassy here, when i go in there as an american citizen, you usually get stopped by the afghan police, then you go through another gate and another gate. there waste any new extra blast walls. but we have to remember that the u.s. peace heembassy here alrea plenty of blast walls. they have security measures that they can t share with the public, especially the media after the september 2011 attack. and the building constructed nearby, firing rockets onto the embassy compound. it was a very scary situation that lasted for hours. and after that situation, the embassy worked with their afghan