Way to cut spending. The question is no longer whether sequestration should be replaced, but how. As every member of this Conference Committee knows, both the house and Senate Budget call for changes to the budget control act and replace sequestration in different wales. The house budget fully replaces the defense cut, lists the b. C. A. Cap, and pays for that by cutting from key domestic vements investments. The Senate Budget pays for that with an equal mix of spending cuts and revenue caused by wasteful tax loopholes that benefit the wealthiest americans and corporations. So getting a bipartisan deal to replace quest racial is going to require compromise. There is no way around it. I am going into this budget conference ready to agree to some tough spending cuts that unlike the quester sequester caps that disappear in 2022, will be locked into law. I know there are some republicans that would be interested in swapping some of the infish and damaging sequester cuts with programs that
Turned 100 and it looks every day its age. It is a broken, in efficient mass. Mess. It is time to bring it into the 21st century. Im committed to tax reform. And loopholesffs for us to close in the meantime without jeopardizing the goals of comprehensive tax reform. My hope is that this conference and put our feet in both cant , for tax reform and against tax ripoffs. Ood place to start incentives that Push Companies to move jobs overseas. Second is medicare. The future for medicare is better care at lower cost. 965. S very different than 1 chronic disease, cancer, problems d other current government rules and practices impede our efforts to deliver to these seniors. We are working on a bipartisan proposal to address these issues. We look forward to working with the conference on these issues. There is a better way, colleagues. Is there my view parity between defense and nondefense. The rule of the whole theration debate rules were that you are going to cut defense and nondefense equal
The demand center wherever it electricity is needed. There are several demonstration projects around the country looking at different ways, with battery or potentially hydrogen, looking at different ways to see if that makes sense. But right now with the amount of wind power we are producing, we can scale up to a fairly significant level of wind penetration, and just using the power grid and operating it is efficiently is the cheapest way, if we want to think about using the most portable forms first, the cheapest way to move effectively free power to the demand centers. There are lots of demonstration projects going on right now in combination with the industry and the department of industry and the department of energy to understand the opportunities such as the one that you mentioned that to be part of our system in the future. , thanklizabeth salerno you very much. For more information, go to a wea. Org. You can also follow them on twitter. That does it for today washington journal
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