their taxes go up will they come back to get over the finish line before the end of the year? we are asking for the house to follow the lead of the senate, to pass a bill or an amendment to a bill that has received overwhelming bipartisan support on this issue, to make certain that american taxes do not go up in 12 days. it is time for us to step back and look at what has transpired here. we have been in this situation where the way the public is, and the vast majority of people in washington this is at variance with the subsection of one-party. it is clear based on the reporting that you have done, what has transpired. this is this is unique compared to what we have seen transpire because the senate in the past, they have done with the house leadership asked them to do, passed a bill with the broad, bipartisan support. it is ready to be voted on and passed by the house of representatives. and it is simply perplexing for all of us, to understand why house republican
thank you. let me start with some remarks on the initial reforms before i look more closely at the king of more ok owe moracco. we are seeing what s happening in egypt. we are seeing what s happening in libya. we are seeing what s happening in syria. these are countries which are devastated which can lead to a long series of conflict before the countries settle down. so before the monarches can institute reforms, the reforms can become very overwhelming. the problems we are seeing, that we seem to be witnessing with the arab monarchies at this point, unless there is a lot of pressure from the law, they don t see the incentive or they don t feel the time pressure as marwan was saying, to try to introduce those changes now. you have vast amounts of power and so on. why make your life more complicated by giving away some of this with organized political parties and so on? so what we are seeing is that in many cases, and this is not just in the arab world, monarchies don t wa
forever. of george wallace was an ardent supporter of segregation, outspoken against the civil rights movement. he ran for president four times and lost. one of those efforts cut short by an assassination attempt. george wallace, from the governor s mansion, friday at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. remarks from president obama on the failure of the that committee to reach an agreement. ps of from the briefing room. last summer, i signed a law that will cut nearly $1 trillion of spending over the next 10 years. part of the law also where required congress to reduce the deficit by an additional $1.20 trillion by the end of this year. in september, i sent them a detailed plan that would have gone above and beyond the goal. the plan that would reduce the deficit by an additional $3 trillion by cutting spending, slowing the growth of medicare and medicaid, and asking the wealthiest americans to pay their fair share. in addition to my plan, there were a number of other bipartis
virginia. these are two democratic senators, it fits the bill that republicans say they believe in. it provides for 50% of the feds, 37% to the common wealth of virginia, 12.5% to land conservation infrastructure. if they passed with no amendment, send it to the senate, and reid has to decide whether to bottle up two former democrats, and one running for the senate is for the bill. or do we pass it? if they pass it, goes to the white house,nd in this economy, does the president veto a bill that creates american jobs and american energy and revenue for the federal government? that would be an act of suicide. he might, but it would be pretty amazing. what s wrong with the sequester that now looms as a result of the super committee? well, the idea of cutting $500 billion out of defense is a political exercise. strikes me as crazy. i mean, you ought to design the national security policy around simple things what threatens you, what arehe goals, and what do you do to achiev
importance. there are important to our security interests. i would look for ways to be more economical. the balance is right. if you have to go deeper than that you have to have a revision about what interest you are willing to protect less. i wanted to come in with another and point. there is an argument we are business as usual even with the four hundred and 50 billion. he said he would not have done that way if he was in charge. it was his last day. we have not faced the tough choices. we have 17 public depots. we re not tackling that. we do not have the political will. a wreath everyone who has done a study says it is a wasteful entitlement program. we do not have the political will to tackle these. i do not see that 2012 is a serious budget. maybe it s a question sequestration is the path. is this business business as usual? i will say a brief word. you mentioned commissaries. buy recommendations eliminate them. to get to 400 billion, depending on which base