The committee will come back to order. I want to thank our witnesses for being here today, and i think we will move into the questions and answer period. Im going to reserve my question time and i will go to mr. Brady. You all recognized for five minutes. Thank you, mr. Chairman. And a thank you for all of those who are here. Your testimony is very helpful. One, clearly america will pay its debt. That is made clear by republicans and democrats in congress. We always have, and i hope that those who choose to be melodramatic about it can say to gain political advantage, if you would please stop, that would be helpful. Secondly, there is absolutely no chance the president s request to have a permanent, unlimited debt ceiling will kerr. This is constitutional will poker. As we have seen in the past its also been a helpful tool not only on checks and balances but to enact spending reforms and restraints that can be helpful, although in my view have not been helpful as they have in the past.
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A lot of people will be trying to make that determination themselves and watching that interview closely. Paul kalyn, thank you so much, paul. Appreciate it. Thats it for me. Cnn newsroom continues with brooke baldwin. Two brothers about to go blind decide to end their lives together. But it is what doctors do next that is stirring up the debate over the right to die. Im brooke baldwin. The news is now. Guns, ammo, and the white house. Find out what advice Vice President joe biden gave his boss. Plus, critics pounce on cocacolas new obesity ad. How scared is one of the worlds most popular brands about soda bans . And hes got to crawl over a lot of broken glass. After getting Lance Armstrong to confess, oprah says the cyclist didnt come clean in the manner she expected. Im brooke baldwin. Good to see you. We have got some developing news now out of the white house. Let me tell you what we know here. We know the Vice President , joe biden, has just briefed the president on his gun violen
The resolution is agreed to. Mr. Reid mr. President , could we have order . The president pro tempore the senate will be in order. The senate is not in order. The senate will be in order so the majority leader can be heard. Without objection. Mr. Reid mr. President , could we have people stop talking . The president pro tempore i ask senators to please cooperate so the majority leader can be heard. If the conversations in the well and throughout the senate could cease. The majority leader. Mr. Reid were going to have one more vote tonight. The next vote will be on sandy and matters related to sandy monday night at 5 30. We expect i have spoken to the chairman, new chairman of the will soon be the chair of the Foreign Relations committee, and Ranking Member corker. Were going to have a vote after the business meeting sometime on tuesday on the new secretary of state. The presiding officer the question is on Senate Resolution 16. Are the yeas and nays requested . The yeas and nays have b
Taiwan, as they were both as they were both called. So there have been many times in our history when president s have had to do the hard work. Esident george h. W. Bush made a budget agreent for which he may have caused him to lose the election in 1992 because it angered a number of republicans, but it also helped balance the budget and gave us a period of time in the 1990s when that agreement plus a good economy gave us an actual surplus of funding. Sense that there is at the white house a feeling, two things that i would like to disabuse the white house of. Thfirst is tt the budget problem isnt a real problem. I cant believe that people at the white house think that. I mean, Everybody Knows it is. Senator mcconnell gave a very good explanation of what was going what was going on there, but let me say it this way in 2025, according to the Congressional Budget Office, every dollar of taxes we collect will go to pay for medicare, medicaid, Social Security and interest on the debt, and