would be able to i don t think so under this agreement. he controls what the floor is he controls what the nature of that bill is, too. you know there s a broad breadth of what the balanced budget amendment would be. we could put forward a balanced budget amendment some of us work in the house knowing that it would die when we give it to the house. may even die in the senate. congressman give you the last word. the balance the budget amendment is pitifpitiful. you even have democrats support. we cannot let go of that balanced budget amendment is key to our future. grease is the word. we don t want to be greased we want to be an economic super power. both of you, leaning yes or leaning no? where are you? probable no. i was no in some of the other ones balanced budget cool but the leader went a good direction. we will read the bill but we
senate to get the president s signature. joining us now our utah congressman jason chavous is with us. congressman scott garrett. i understand the republican caucus had a meeting i guess it was a phone conference with speaker boehner. he said that the republicans in the house changed the debate in the country. apparently nobody on the ca cal the bill. it is not ideal and i apologize to that. there is no agreement until i spoke with you. right now what we have is a framework. is that accurate? that s right. give us more of the details of what went on? we basically laid out what the framework is as far as laying out with regard to the time frame and some of the moneys up front. later on you have to set up the commission. the commission has two alternatives.
announcements. he never laid out his plans to the american people. the senate never voted on a plan. for all of the criticism with republicans in the conservative ranks they cut cap and balance they at least passed another bill. you said the president spent us into oblivion they get the previous president president bush half the prescription benefit through ward. they want to put it on the book to say we have to pay for those wars. the 7th year in the bush presidency the budget deficit is 153 milli 1$53 billion the last was $450 million. and for every year now it s 1.5 this year 1.65 trillion.
foreign and domestic you need a robust defense department to do that. senator vitter what it says in the power point is total reductions would be equally split between defense and nondefense programs. i don t see that as 60 percent. but 50. i said 50 percent. i am sorry. i didn t hear you correctly. that s way, way more than what defense represents as a percentage of the budget. it s not even close. way, way more. it does hold out the possibility for tax increases as well. as the president was saying everything is on the table. based on your early indications, and i know you are not in the nancy pelosi category we have to pass a bill to find out what s in it. i suppose you will read the bill ahead of time. do these overall descriptions of the bill make you more inclined to support it, not support it? senator vitter we will start with you. i have had concerns every step of the way based on the fundamentals even doing this which is moving in the right
let me finish this point. what about dealing with the recession this president avoided us having economic landing. it is .4 percent in another recession. you hate the stimulus spending. usually that contributed under the spineless obama. what i am saying to you is 40 percent of the stimulus spending was on tax breaks for people. that was obama s bill passed without a single republican vote. unemployment is still 9.2 percent he promised it would prevent a calamity and catastrophe. this summer is worse than last summer. in other words you have great ideas. in other words president obama tried to spend some money cut taxes with everybody in the country. 40 percent of the stimulus