manner of other things. i think this is something that should be put off for another day. but this is where mr. boehner, the republican speaker is in a horrible box. i almost feel sorry for him, because if he jettisons that rider, his own republicans won t vote for the cuts he s winning, which are deep cuts. dana, you re shaking your head. yeah, i think it s kind of funny. this whole issue, this is about, again, this is about spending. and is it that important? we have to consider the funding for our servicemen and women and it seems that s the hill democrats want to fall down on? there s not taxpayer money for this planned parenthood in washington, d.c., so we re going to have to veto this whole stop-gap measure. that seems ridiculous to me, especially when you look at precedence. this isn t the first time we ve been at this impasse and democrats have signed on this before when there s been such riders like this to not have
the parks shut down, even if the military doesn t get paid, guess who does? the folks on capitol hill. these guys who got us into this mess and can t get their act together will still be getting paid. just this morning, that pact was news to house speaker john boehn boehner. in fact, only the second part is true. yet when the interviewer pointed out, mr. boehner first disputed the fact. a moment later, he said whatever the case may be, lawmakers shouldn t be paid. they shouldn t be getting paid, just like federal employees. they wouldn t be if the house passed a version of this senate bill. kind of spells it out. but the house didn t because of a real catch 22. the house legislation to stop paying lawmakers in case of government shutdown is bundled into the bill that if it doesn t
parenthood or abortion funding for d.c. if we re going to talk about cutting spending, we have to actually talk about cutting spending, and we have to talk about cutting projects here and there. and i think any time is a good time to talk about cutting spending. i have been completely unhappy with all of the proposals that i ve seen from both parties. we have democrats and republicans that are only talking about cutting the tiniest little bitty bit of what is being spent. no one wants to get into the meat and potatoes of what is causing us to be in extreme debt. no one wants to talk about what is adding to the deficit. we added a trillion dollars to the deficit last year. no one wants to cut the serious stuff that needs to be cut. so how serious is congress about cutting spending? or is this just all a dog and pony show? paul, i think i read something that on the republican side, this has a lot to do with john boehner trying to appeal to the tea party, or at least to
breaking news with people across the country and war zones around the world getting ready to go without paychecks or tax refunds, more emergency white house negotiations, aimed at heading off a government shutdown have just come and gone and there is no deal. president obama, harry reid, house speaker john boehner and others wrapped up talks for the night and president obama spoke briefly. i want to report again to the american people that we made some additional progress this evening. i think the staffs of both the house and the senate, as well as the white house staff, have been working very hard to try to narrow the differences. we made some progress today. those differences have been narrowed, and so once again the staff is going to be working
i look at it like this if we re going to talk about cutting spending, we have to actually talk about cutting spending, and we have to talk about cutting projects here and there. and i think any time is a good time to talk about cutting spending. i have been completely unhappy with all of the proposals that i ve seen from both parties. we have democrats and republicans that are only talking about cutting the tiniest little bitty bit of what is being spent. no one wants to get into the meat and potatoes of what is causing us to be in extreme debt. no one wants to talk about what is adding to the deficit. we added a trillion dollars to the deficit last year. no one wants to cut the serious stuff that needs to be cut. so how serious is congress about cutting spending? or is this just all a dog and pony show? paul, i think i read something that on the republican side, this has a lot to do with john boehner trying to appeal to the tea party, or at least to conservatives and show he can b