it s american politics. it s the way it works. congressman roe, please don t tell me that you truly believe that holding the debt ceiling and holding the continuing resolution is truly just business as usual. it s been usual like that for a long time. that s what we did in 2011 with the budget control act, we pass it had in a bipartisan we didn t have a government shutdown in 2011. we haven t had a government shutdown in 17 years and prior to that, yes, in the reagan years there were about six of them. tell me, do you really believe this is right, this is honestly a good way to govern, that it s fair, that this is good politics to hold the faith and credit of the united states and actually the running of the government and people s jobs as a bargaining chip? let me say this as clearly as i can as the speaker did this morning in the press conference and in our conference. we are not going to default on the debt. if that happens, there is enough money in the budget to pay for
to that? do you stand by that now? or are these, as president says, hiccups and pumps along the road that will be smoothed out in time? i think that people already know this, bill. you say people coming around to it. poll after poll have shown that americans are not happen with this law. in the doctor s office they figure this out. they will find the doctor like one of us, saying this law isn t working for me. i m not getting paid enough. i have too much paperwork. i can t afford to take care of you anymore. all of that is happening because the type of insurance started in 1990s, it is being extended all the bad things. bill: congressman roe, you get the last word on this. okay, go ahead. let me personalize this, for you, bill. in my own hometown, my doctor, my personal doctor quit and he quit why? he and his partner quit. he is a urologist. 40% of our urologists in our hometown quit and retired because of all the complications, electronic health
thought you should know. this man saved a man s life. he went into cardiac arrest. roe used cpr and the medical dwoimt restart the man s heart. congressman roe said springing into action helped someone still comes naturally to him. you are a physician first. no question, after spending over 30 years practicing medicine. you don t stop being a doctor. i mean, that s what you do. that s the way i and the way i ve been taught to think and the way i ve been trained. it was just really like, i guess, deja vu. you re back doing what you were trained to do. this week twitter says it will begin selling political ads. it will kick off the political cycle. five candidates have signed up to place their ads on twitter. and the republican national committee has surpassed its democratic counterpart in fundraising this month. in august, the rnc raised about
we have a voice in our caucus. it s not an iron hand. we get to speak. and the speaker is doing a great job. congressman roe, you are a sponsor of the balanced budget amendment act, constitutional amendment, it was described this way by bruce bartlett. this is the stupidest constitutional amendment i have ever seen. it looks like it was drafted by a couple interns on the back of a napkin. every senator co-sponsoring this pos should be ashamed of themselves. he says that you should be ashamed of yourself for sponsoring such a simple minded constitutional amendment, congressman. he worked for ronald reagan. that s great that he did. i m glad he worked for ronald reagan. i m not ashamed of balancing the budget as a mayor. i m not ashamed of balancing the budget in high homy home.
entire year last year to do a budget. nothing we could do to stop it. we didn t have votes to. a budget didn t get done. we re arguing about last year s budget. we ll have to start concentrating on 2012 s budget. congressman roe, when you say we have to sit down and work it out, it sounds like you re saying to anthony weiner it doesn t have to be hr-1 and full package of cuts that republicans already passed in the house. it can be something between that and the 33 billion that they are at today? i think you have to look at it and certainly one of the things that we did add was defense. here s the thing that was not that hasn t been brought out in discussion so far. discretionary nondefense spending. that s the money that we have, parks, department of transportation and so on. that s up over 80% in the last two years. don t tell me we can t cut the money out of there when we ve had that huge increase in