they were going tap that for infrastructure. you re looking at $250 billion to $300 billion a year that would be presumably allocated to just this sort of thing. and we re asking for? yeah. and part of it is just simpley you know, they re diverting this money here, and it s the wrong way to do it. imagine in 1956 that a gas tax seemed like a user fee. we have a lot of different ways to get around. my brother bought an electric car, for crying out loud. he s not paying a lot in the gas tax him. they re going to charge by the mail. what needs to happen since we re not building highways anymore, you have to build highways by using tolls and by using private companies to generate capital to build these things. and increasingly, that s where we need to be going toward in maintenance, as well. we do have an infrastructure gap here. the money s being siphoned away, and the money the money s out there. we re not spending on this. thank you as always. you know, if consumers get sl
likely to happen. we have 11 million people out of work here in this country. we should focus on that part of our population first. no question that look, the united states is more welcoming to immigrants than any other country in the world. all the other countries in the world combined. about a million people a year come to this country, raise their right hand, take the oath of citizenship and that s a good thing. don t tell me our immigration system is broken and we need to put everything else on hold. we need to enforce the laws as they exist today and perhaps that s something that can happen going forward. the farm bill, for crying out loud, the house has passed a farm bill, prousd a bill. as far as i know it s on its way to conference committee. the president should have encouraged his democrats in the senate to work with chairman lucas and see if we can get something done that is sensible and saleable to the american people without blowing the bank on entitlements. so i think t
the delay of the medical device tax, for instance, the verification of subsidies under obama care, those could get into a final deal but what can t is the length of the continuing resolution as well as the debt ceiling increase through the end of january, which is what collins is proposing. that was too short for democrats. they need something longer and they also will not agree to locking in the sequestration cuts past the next round of cuts, which begin january 15th. you know, amanda, alan simpson and erskine bowles have a new tv ad. take a look at this. for crying out loud, who isn t fed up with what s going on in washington? these politicians are playing games. they re jerking our country around from crisis to crisis. it s going to take some real political courage for folks to start working together and it s going to take a push from all of you out there. so some real frank language from both of them. as you saw there, amanda, are
really? as far as piecemealing these efforts, appropriationses, we re doing the job the house is supposed to do. we own the purse. we can and have the ability to do this. why would anybody deny nih funding? talk to any family who has gotten a new diagnosis of cancer for they are child. that s a consequence of shutting the government down. there are a lot of entities within the u.s. government, and when the government is shut down, that means there s a lot of pain being felt in lots of different directions. there s a lot of pain. there s a lot of pain inflicted by the president himself. let s look at my own district. i have ft. bragg. we have 7,000 civil bean employees who have been furloughed, totally unnecessary. we passed legislation to keep them working. this is something the president has instituted. look at the world war ii memorial, for crying out loud. here we have an open air memorial under barriers and security. that s a national park. it falls under the u.s. governm
the packers draft this freak? why would you not draft him for it? he s a football player, for crying out loud. he s not a saint. did you not see the alabama game? i could give you a lot of reasons not to draft him. bada bing. jack lew moving on to treasury. that brings dennis mcdonough into the spotlight. what do we know about him, and how will he compare to chiefs of staff past? i think the most interesting thing to compare him to would be right after the 2010 elections when they brought in daly which signaled that they wanted to change their approach inside the white house, wanted to reach out to business, wanted to try to reach out to republicans, have better relationships with the house and senate. what this pick signals is that it s going to be a more combative white house, continue to be a pretty insular white house. i think some of the bellyaching speci internally, it s another white guy in leadership role inside the white house. it signals to me an approach where they