something, you ought to be on the floor and filibuster as someone who never filibustered. i think the most powerful one is the no budget, no pay. i love that. joe and i could appreciate that. we were not obstructionists here, but we understand congress, there are americans who go to work every day whose salaries are being cut. and for congress, i served there, joe served there, i respect republicans and democrats, if you can t get a budget done, you shouldn t get paid. i may love this idea the best. i want the prime minister s hour before parliament every week in america. i love this idea. talk about it. well, it s like they do in britain. you get the president and/or members of the cabinet on a monthly basis to come before the congress, come before the senate and have an exchange of ideas. and if you re going to be an obstructi obstructionist, let people see it in a full view.
leader of the republicans in the senate, mitch mcconnell who refused to have the bill taken up on the senate floor, and challenge a filibuster if it was taken up. so to say that is just absolutely wrong. i understand what the congresswoman is saying. yes, they tried to get this passed, but we had democrats that had a majority in congress, if we had gotten this budget done, this would not even be an issue. and i don t understand why democrats are choosing planned parenthood, of all things to try to bring government to a halt over taxpayer funded abortion, period. first of all, providing services through planned parenthood saves taxpayers money, it does not have anything to do with abortion. the abortion issue has been resolved through the hiatt amendment years ago and no federal funds can go for abortion unless there is forcible rape or incenst.
defense. the number of programs they have had to stop, reduce, or cut in some way because they don t know how much money they re going to have passed next week, it s costing us money and it s slowing down our ability to make sure that our military is provided for, and, again, that s true of all different aspects of the budget. i m on the armed services committee so that s my focus but it s true everywhere. we have to do short-term contracts. that s just more expensive. we need to get an agreement, get a deal. we ve already put a large number of cuts on the table. whatever passes is going to have a substantial cut from the president s budget whether it s $75 billion or $80 billion, it s going to be a big number. let s agree to it, get the budget done, and keep moving. a lot of military families areรง hoping it can get done. congressman, thank you. thank you. much more ahead for you including the head of planned parenthood. how did her group become the focus of the fight to keep t
significant change done on the budget? there s no chance that this could get through the senate. there s very little chance it could get through the house. what it does is lays down a marker for republican leaders to say, listen, this is what big change would be. this is what we re willing to do if we could start with resolution this week. this is going to go on for two years. we ve got to get this year s budget done, by the way. we ve got three years left to do that. thanks so much. appreciate it. coming up, last night from last night s championship game. what butler s head coach had to say about their record low shooting. it was the worst ever in a championship game. we ll try to scrape together a few highlights for you. plus, high anxiety over that gaping hole in the southwest airlines jet. the government taking new action this morning. news is next. we ll be right back. we re america s natural gas.
what s also true is, for example, that the chairman of the house republican budgeteers didn t sign on, he s got a little bit of juice when it comes to trying to get an eventual budget done, so he s not concerns, so i m going to have to have a conversation with him, what would he like to see happen. i m going to have to have a conversation with those democrats who didn t vote for it. there are some issues in there that as a matter of principle i don t agree with , where i think they didn t go far enough or they went too far. so this is going to be a process in which each side, both in both chambers of congress, go back and forth and start trying to whittle their differences down until we arrive at something that has an actual chance of