Sponsor of for that reason. These are indiscriminate cuts. We can do a lot better. What i hope to be able to hear from the president in the state of the union is he wants to join us in trying to effect much smarter cuts in spending. But thats what hes saying. We dont have to have the impact that you just described. Why not work with him on shortterm measure which he is talking about to delay this, find a different way to go about some of the cuts . The problem is, david, every time you turn around the answer is to raise taxes. And, you know, he just got his tax hike on the wealthy. And you cant in this town every three months raise taxes. Again, every time, thats his response. And weve got a spending problem. Everybody knows it. The house has put forward an alternative plan, and theres been no response in any serious way from the senate or the white house. Its time we really have to do it. This is how the president responded to that in his saturday address. Taking on the house plan and
In washington as the president prepares to deliver his state of the Union Address tuesday night. As we begins a second term, were being told he will return to his primary message of how to restore economic growth. Well talk to both sides this morning. Majority leader eric cantor and assistant democratic leader in the senate dick durbin. I want to welcome you back to meet the press. Pleasure, david. Thank you. There are so many areas that are contentious right now, and chief among them is the sequester word. This dirty word in washington, that means automatic spending cuts. It could begin in a matter of weeks with 85 billion in automatic cuts. Do you really want this as a republican leader . Look at the impact it would have in your state alone. The Associated Press wrote about this it this week. Sequestration, today a political football would cripple virginias economy if happens. Potentially no state would suffer more than virginia. The commonwealth would lose more than 130,000 jobs, mo
As we begins a second term, were being told he will return to his primary message of how to restore economic growth. Well talk to both sides this morning. Majority leader eric cantor and assistant democratic leader in the senate dick durbin. I want to welcome you back to meet the press. Pleasure, david. Thank you. There are so many areas that are contentious right now, and chief among them is the sequester word. This dirty word in washington, that means automatic spending cuts. It could begin in a matter of weeks with 85 billion in automatic cuts. Do you really want this as a republican leader . Look at the impact it would have in your state alone. The Associated Press wrote about this it this week. Sequestration, today a political football would cripple virginias economy if happens. Potentially no state would suffer more than virginia. The commonwealth would lose more than 130,000 jobs, more than any other states. Not only is Virginia Home to the pentagon, the Worlds Largest u. S. Nav
To his primary message of how to restore economic growth. Were going to talk to both sides this morning. The number two republican leader in the house, eric cantor and assistant democratic leader dick durbin. Eric cantor, i want to begin with you and welcome back to meet the press. Its a pleasure, david, good morning. There are so many areas that are contentious between republicans and democrats in the white house right now and chief among them is this sequester word, this dirty word in washington that means automatic spending cuts, 1. 2 trillion over ten years could begin in weeks with 85 billion in automatic cuts. Heres the real question to my mind, do you really want this as a republican leader . I mean, look at the impact it would have in your state alone. The Associated Press wrote about it this week. Sequestration, again, another word for automatic spending cuts, today a political football, would cripple virginias economy if it happens. Proportionately, no state would suffer more
Climate has our attention here in washington as the president prepares to deliver his state of the Union Address tuesday night. As we begins a second term, were being told he will return to his primary message of how to restore economic growth. Well talk to both sides this morning. Majority leader eric cantor and assistant democratic leader in the senate dick durbin. I want to welcome you back to meet the press. Pleasure, david. Thank you. There are so many areas that are contentious right now, and chief among them is the sequester word. This dirty word in washington, that means automatic spending cuts. It could begin in a matter of weeks with 85 billion in automatic cuts. Do you really want this as a republican leader . Look at the impact it would have in your state alone. The Associated Press wrote about this it this week. Sequestration, today a political football would cripple virginias economy if happens. Potentially no state would suffer more than virginia. The commonwealth would