republican. congressman chaffetz you would not have voted for plan b, would you? no, yes i wanted to avert as many tax increases as possible. i told the speaker i would support it. i don t liken creasing taxes on anybody. my conscious is clear. we passed a bill in august that extended every single one of the tax rates and would have averted this. it s the united states senate that hasn t acted. but we are where we are. bill: congressman royce would you have voted in favor of plan b? yes i ll tell you why. we face a situation on january 1 where every single american taxpayer will see their taxes go up especially when you consider the amt, 33 million americans are going to owe the amt as a result of not taking action. and on top of that we are going to lose more and more leverage
reid actually have to produce something. they ve been way full of rhetoric, there is a lot of talk. i ve been here four years in this congress, the united states senate has never passed a budget. in fact the president s budget four years in a row not a single person, republican or democrat has ever voted in favor of the president s budget. the president is on the president and harry reid to not only produce something but pass it in the united states senate. bill: still trying to figure out a way out of this. though. this the senate has not moved as you say in years, will they move now? congressman royce what is your view on this about how you would tell your own folks, the people that you represent there in washington about the next step forward? what is it? well, think about this. obviously the next step is for the president and the speaker to reach an agreement. but now to do that, when the president of the united states is asking for more spending, asking for another stimulus bill
outreach to those groups, right? put diverse people into positions of power. really broaden their reach. these are their 1920 chairs in the house gop picked so far. can anyone guess what they all have in common? if you guessed, they are all white men, you win. so let s take a look at these uniquely qualified congress. there s congressman royce picked to head foreign affairs. let s say that he s not exactly welcoming different communities. here he is at an anti muslim rally last year. a big part of the problem that we face today is that our children have been taught at schools that every idea is right, that no one should criticize other positions and it
the president going to be in his execution of his discretion? that is yet to be seen. i am very, very hopeful that he can say you know, american citizen children, maybe we shouldn t be knocking on the doors of homes and snatching those children from the arms of their mothers. there is a sense of fairness and justice and the president, they began a campaign. let me get back to congressman royce. what if the president eases off using his powers as the congressman wants him to do. how will you and the leadership react and second, we don t have much time. the dream act. a lot of people say it s desensey and fairness and kids were brought in at the age of 10 months or a year and did nothing wrong. if they are in college or the military, they should be given a path to citizenship? is that a point of common purpose? certainly in the military and frankly i think there is an area to come to an agreement. a lot of it has to do with the
i m happy the president gave the speech, but as you heard from congressman royce and the majority leader and he declared any movement dead the republican governor perry won t even welcome the president of the united states to the state of texas. you saw how cold and reactionary the republican party is. if the president s move today was to show immigrant and latino voters there is no welcome mat for the community, he accomplished his feat. the more important is the following. the president has broad discretionary powers we will graduate 65,000 young men and women and they will graduate. some are valedictorians they have been admitted to harvard and yale and prestigious universities we have soldiers being sent to