the march that happened over the weekend, i don t consider that a legitimate march. i ve never heard of those groups or anything like that. obviously when sarah palin and ted cruz joins up. our organization features a world war ii veteran who was motivated to be in the national cable ad arguing for a fully funded government because of the amount of benefits that support him. he was motivated by what happened at the world war ii memorial two weeks ago when the republicans showed up there. i think what you re hearing with the lead in, what s going on with 33 veterans service organizations, those are legitimate and funded by, supported, providing service to our veterans. they are talking about no piecemeal. these are the type of talking points that came out of the white house, fully fund the government. this is the talk from democrats. obviously what s going on today is much more relevant to what veterans need than what happened over the weekend. i want to talk about exactly what s go
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time, they ll come back again in january and february again. i think the president i m talking this is the way the president i think is looking at it. they came to get his baby, if you will, and they want to hurt it. all along they have wanted to repeal it. now they wanted to defund it and have gotten their way so far. then this comes up with a delay tactic basically. again, the president has said all along that he s not willing to negotiate anything that has to do with the aca. so is this dead on arrival? i think it s a i think he has to make a big choice. if boehner won t make a choice against doing this, the president has to make a choice against doing it and he has to risk all the problems, the hell that s coming thursday after midnight if he wants to stand his ground. this is a very tough one. this is very tough for the president. i think it s a little less tough for speaker boehner because it seems to me that he does have a majority of his republican caucus if he stands
members of congress on numerous occasions that the budget won t be balanced on the backs of veterans and yet here we are today. we need a permanent fix, not the temporary band-aid of budget deals or to face this again in a few months. we have to end this shutdown. congress has to do its work. piecemeal will not work. all right, so hearing there from certain veterans about what this has done to them while we ve had the government shutdown, while we wait for thursday to come, which is the default date of the 17th. joining me now is republican congresswoman from tennessee, marsha blackburn. congressman, great to have you with me. here we are on the heels of john boehner coming out and giving a brief description of the bill that s being crafted together and cobbled together to get enough support, but it includes revision work or anything tied to the aca that the president has been very firm on, saying that that s really a
hard right, but he knows his proposal with the measures in it already that have leaked out would not be signed by the president or pass the senate. so instead of doing the right thing, looking at the senate proposal, a bipartisan proposal, and moving forward on that, speaker boehner decides to light a match and throw it on the gasoline that s already all over the place. i hope he will desist. we all have seen that the house can t lead in this regard. they can pass a lot of one house bills but they can t get anything done. let him desist. let him defer to the democratic and republican leaders here in this body so that we can avoid default, open the government and get back to america s business. i yield the floor. listening to new york senator