the tae pack conference gets under way thursday, friday, saturday all week throughout the week on c-span. we ll focus on the next battle facing congress, the budget battle. wandering how deep should the cuts go? host: the easy cuts are behind us it has been said. the president s budget is a comprehensive and responsibly plan that will put us on the path of sis cal responsibility over the next few years in terms of numbers, a five-year freeze on spending on all areas except national security. mike from ohio on the democrat line. good morning and welcome to the conversation. caller: good morning. the first thing they should cut is their pay and their benefits. second is lobbyists these people don t care about the average working man at all. leif: host: good morning. caller: i ve written to both parties. i think they need to vote one to one. if all democrats vote to decrease this debt limit, they will get crashed by the republicans. why are they assuming that the democrats are
the airport security procedures without horrible airport delays. so there message could have been better on that. tyh their message could have been better on that. the department more mature. it used to be stories every few weeks of embarrassing incidents regarding contract and wasted money and mismanagement. you do not read about that, and you do not write about that as much, and i think the agencies are working together better now. i am sure there are probably some questions about the role of homeland security in the intelligence community, the director of national intelligence and the cia. should it be more robust. i think there are still some areas where it needs to grow. were you satisfied with the answers that you need on the virtual fence on the border? we will see what they do. there have been now three secretaries and have talked about this, delivering a secure border with technology. each one has wasted hundreds of millions of dollars. until they successfully