that would suspend lawmakers own paychecks if their chamber fails to pass a budget by april 15th. that s a lot like actually the no labels, no budget, no pay plan that that organization s been dealing with, talking about for a long time. michael steele, i think that s a great idea. i do, too. if you don t do your job why get paid for it? and the democrats in the senate haven t done their job in that many days, why pay them? i don t think you should. in fact, if i had my way, it would be retro. so i d take back the money we paid you over the last four years for not doing your job. and i think, you know, again, some people say that s a political toy or a tactic. the reality of it is, it does reflect where congress is right now. and i think it will work for a lot of people to say yeah, we re going to pay you, then do your job. and i think this is a good move. we ll see how they respond. you know, kelly, neither republicans nor democrats have been allowed to do their job on
carrieses 250 passengers. they have the batteries in the center the investigation. three minutes past the hour. martha. martha: back to see now where the house majority leader says they will have a vote tomorrow on the debt issue. guess what they will do? they will be allowed to keep borrowing money through may 19th. they will hit the debt ceiling mid-february. this pushes this whole thing back a couple months. doug mckelway is live in washington with the story. doug, surprise, surprise, right? reporter: surprise, surprise, martha. this is the no budget, no pay bill. it would suspend the debt limit until may 19th at which time the debt limit would automatically increased beyond the present $16.4 trillion to accommodate whatever the u.s. borrowed at that time. it makes the extra borrowing contingent upon this. if either chamber of congress fails to pass a budget by april 15th.
great d.c. pastime which we often see and then this amazing row of port a johns which they want to alleviate some of the problems there because there was too much crowding there, and now they made a nice long row of them from 7th and madison here, craig, and you remember the wrc days, all of the way to the capitol here. and so on the theme of makeing the inauguration accessible and fun and easy for those who want to attend. of course, luke russert, the president will be back to work and i understand that the house republicans have a jam-packed schedule as well. they have their own plans for this week, and what are the first things that are on the president s plate and the plate of the house republicans? well, craig, you just said it right on. there are is a lot of pomp and circumstance today and tomorrow, but tuesday, the house is back in session and congress back in session and on wednesday, the house gop will vote to increase the debt limit by calling on the senate to pass a budg
let s talk about the debt ceiling because all eyes were on this potential new controversy that was about to happen as we were just past the fiscal cliff. now we are going to hit the debt ceiling debasement now it appears house g.o.p. members are putting forth this idea. maybe a bit of an olive branch saying three month extension in the debt ceiling would enable them to come to some sort of a deal not without caveats on spending. turk turk tied to. the budget. the senate hasn t in three years. unless the senate comes up with a budget by april 15th. no more pay for members of congress. which might be a stimulus of its own kind. alisyn: there is a new fox news poll about how americans are feeling about this. all of our budget battles. here is the question we asked. is government spending being managed carefully or out of control? not surprisingly now 83% of
get passed that, a three-month extension. they re not demanding any cuts. all they re demanding is for the senate to have a budget by april 15th. in theory it sounds something less shall we say it s less trying to instill anger in democrats, but you saw when harry reid said he was reassured they re moving away from their all-or-nothing proposition. but overall what this is trying to do is give the house the ability to pass an extension and say to the house or senate if they don t move further, we ve done our job, now it s up to you guys. there s definitely some posturing involved. at a time when we re seeing so many positive indicators, good news on the housing front, jobless claims are down, this kind of kicking the can down the road does not seem to be the kind of thing that would reassure small businesses or markets, wall street, anybody. well, look, it s better than not kicking the can down the