august? i really think the window closes after august, september timeframe. are you going to propose a bunnell that s balances? our focus on the budget is economic growth, jobs and making sure that the deficit does not grow faster than the economy. so we stabilize the dealt it. right. will you have an attempt to balance the budget by a certain we know that paul ryan wants ten year, you say 20 years, 25 years? you going to have a target date? the process of looking a that the, our north star what will guide our budget decisions is job growth. if you go back and look at the last 40-year period, we have only balanced the budget four times, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, during the clinton years and that s because we had a higher revenue. so, we are looking at ways that we can get us on a path. make the argument that a balanced budget could lead to economic growth? ways you can balance the budget that are smart and ways that are not smart. the way the republicans want to
now, you know, speaker boehner has is for tax reform. he has a view that we shouldn t use that money for deficit reduction, but what the president finds encouraging is that, you know, we re in the same universe in terms of the types of the types of reform that we think needs to happen. the president has been willing to join entitlement reform. we re not there yet, and the president had a really good dinner yesterday. there s a lot of differences, but some common ground at least in wanting to tackle this problem and some common ground at least in wanting to avoid the sort of governing by crisis, so both the house and senate are getting ready to take up their budget resolutions. we think this is a positive development. i think that if congress were to use regular order where they are making budget decisions, not by crisis, but by their normal procedures that we could have a good discussion with them now
between bob woodward and the obama white house. mr. woodward slamming the prae president s handling considering he s trying to make it as painful as possible to our military readiness and other programs and adding he has not seen this kind of quote, madness in a very long time. a statement some are suggesting is a veiled comparison to the nixon administration he apparently helped to bring down with the reporting. why is bob woodward so angry? we ll take a facebook looked moments from now. we re hearing criticism of a budget move made late yesterday in the context of this role, the department of homeland security is now in he is tense giving out get out of jail free cards and hundreds and told perhaps could rise to 10,000, maybe 10,000 illegal immigrants. the agency says it s a cost cutting move and it s coming, of course, before the so-called sequester even kicks in. this sparking some serious debate how feds are making budget decisions. now there have been warnings
of those resources is accountable. even as we deal with difficult budget decisions i will never break america s commitment to our troops, our veterans, and our military families. we will continue to invest in the well-being of our all-volunteer force and working with the va and other institutions we will make sure our troops and their families get the healthcare, job opportunities, and education they have earned and deserve, just as i did when i coauthored the post 9/11 gi bell. with senators. this includes focusing on the mental heflt our fighting force. no one who volunteers to foyt and die for this country should h-fr feel lik ever feel like they have nowhere to turn. that is unacceptable in this country. in my 12 years in the senate my one guiding principle on every security decision i made, and
clear national interests. it s a recognition that the united states has been and always will be a pacific power. in the asian make of area, it s increasingly vital to america s security and economic interest, that s why we must become even more engaged in the region over the coming years. doing all this and much more will require smart and stra taoepblg is budget decisions. i have made it clear i share pan pan s and our service chief s serious concerns about the impact sequestration would have on our armed forces. as someone who has run businesses i know that the uncertainty and turbulence of the current budget climate makes it much more difficult to manage the pentagon s resources and our national security. if confirmed i m committed to effectively and efficiently, using every single taxpayers dollar the right way to maintain the strongest military in the world, and to working with congress to insure the department has the resources it needs and that the disposition