Christopher conover to provide that oversight and congress is not doing its job by making sure they provide that oversight by doing a budget and 12 Appropriations Bills so we have to go line by line and address the issues that are not good use of taxpayers money and give it back to the taxpayers and get our budget house in order. Moderator ron barber, same question to you, is there something specific in the budget you would like to see hold out to save money and how much could you save . Barber let me preface this by saying the approach Congress Took in 2011 to reduce the deficit was the wrong approach. It is called sequestration and made acrosstheboard cut on every federal program. It hurt our military, our veterans, research and development, it heard all kinds of programs including education. I am not in favor of sequestration. I said that from the beginning and i hope we get rid of it. I am in favor of kicking and annual g shows steady that pointed out 90 billion in programs that co
We do have historically a policy not to pay ransoms when there are terrorist kidnaps involved. I made that point at the nato dinner and pleaded with other countries to do the same thing. No one should interrupt that as us not doing everything we can to help the family and the hostage themselves. Mr. Speaker, would my right honorable friend accept to me that the country would be delighted to see a nato restored and vigorous after the summit . What the Prime Minister tell what assistance specifically he is looking for from the sunni gulf states which assume the coalition will find it hard going. What was instrument is it was one of resolution and unity and purpose. There were none of the sort of debates that you might have had on previous discussions about iraq. There was real unity about what needed to be done. Part of that unity was not just the Iraqi Government but the support and active support going to be needed by the regional players, in particular sunni countries that not only ca
Angry about this money and the millions that the coke brothers are spending through many different venues. If youre just tuning in or listening on cspan radio, our focus, the mid term elections less than 60 days before voters go to the polls and early voting in many parts of the country. Ac from missouri. Good morning. Go ahead. Caller ive always considered myself a democrat. Ok. Im 56 years old. And a taxpayer. From a single mans point of view, missouri ive been clearly, cleared for medicaid. But missouri being having opted having medicaid come through. Since im legally by medicaid i am not eligible for obamacare. As a u. S. Tax citizens, as single, a 56yearold man, where should i swing my vote to get the most impact . I said this time i want to know should it go to a woman, should it go to im right now, im always considered myself democrat. Ok, im at this point in my life where maybe i need to switch my way of thinking. Host thanks very u much for the call. Nathan let me turn to you
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