the congressional session and the highest profile committee is a failure. they abandoned the hunt for the $1.2 trillion of cuts but vehicle for slew of other legislative pressing items. the deadline for these priorities unlike the super committee won t just go away. first, congress is only approved three of 13 annual spending bills. the continuing resolution passed last week only keeps uncle sam in business through december 16. the lack of progress in the super committee will spill over to everything else. it is going to affect the mood in congress. it is going to affect the schedule. failure usually breeds failure. success breeds success. the end of 2011 means rejoining of the annual battle. over the yearly infusion of cash to prevent medicare physician suffering a huge cut to their fees and the yuletide favorite, patching of the alternative minimum tax to exempt the middle class taxpayers from a hike in their tax bills.
made it clear he intends to keep the pressure on congress. my message to them is simple. no. i will veto any effort to get rid of those automatic spending cuts, domestic and defense spending. there will be no easy off-ramp on this one. we need to keep the pressure up to compromise. not turn off the pressure. the only way these spending cuts will not take place is if congress gets back to work and agrees on a balanced plan to reduce the deficit by at least $1.2 trillion. in the end, what many said was destined to fail did. after countless small group meetings and capitol hill hide-aways the congressional super committee was unable to reach a deal. for much of the day democrats and republicans suggested a glimmer of hope. republican sources say senator john kerry tried to make a
talked about the super committee and its failure to avert huge cuts. he said the president should also step in now and do something lest he be guilty yet again of failing to lead. i would call on the president and do call on the president to immediately introduce legislation which says we will not have a 600 billion-dollar cut to america s military. we should not cut any funding from our base department of defense budget. that should not occur. [ applause ] the president romney today suggested that the president is more interested in his re-election than dealing with the nation s fiscal orders. tomorrow, the president will be in new hampshire where romney is starting his tv ad campaign. its a big deal. he waited a long time to do. this four years ago he had already spent millions by now. this will be the first and and won t talk about the republic rivals it will talk about president obama when he gets to new hampshire accusing him of breaking campaign promises while president.
the plan here. that said, what are they saying about the reasons they couldn t get this done? well, senator john kerry a a short time ago said that essentially boils down to the ideological divide in the country. he says democrats should take their arguments to the nation at this point. bottom line, everybody recognizes the election a year from now is a big factor in all of this. you can bet there will be plenty more arguing between now and election day over it. even though the super committee may be done at this point. and while the blame game gets underway. one senate republic says president obama deserves his share of the blame. take a listen. the commander and chief is absent from he needs to be leading in this. if he had told this debt committee, this 12 that he wanted an agreement, we would have had one. now, you talked at the top about those automatic cuts at the kick. in they don t kick in until january 2013. so you can expect plenty more battle here on capitol hill
for electoral votes, but it really could be key to president obama s re-election. they know it. that is why he s there today. we ll likely see him visit a number of more times in the coming months, richard. yeah, no doubt. thank you so much, kristin welker at the white house. the failure of the congressional super committee boiled down to taxes and entitlements with democrats and republicans sticking to party lines and refusing to bend on these issues. is the persistent partisanship gripping the capital and endangering everyday businesses from hiring and growing? let s ask former arkansas senator blanch lincoln, now the chairwoman of small business for sensible regulations. senator, thank you for your time today. let s start with this. you ve written that the unrelenting partisanship, your words, is strangling the nation s political process and diverting our energies from building our economy. can you explain what you mean? well, i mean what this is all about is the economy. it s