would leave in place current and far higher spending levels, 24% higher, in fact. not including the $8 00 billion stimulus. that is much different from what the republicans are proposing. we said all along what we aim to do bring discretionary levels down to prebail-out, prestimulus levels. republicans won t know until they get visual number from the congressional budget office how much they would have to cut to get to 2008 levels which brought question from democrats. whether it doesn t have a number. we dent know if it s $10 0 billion or $8 0 billion or $40 billion. democrats sought to make it sound as painful as possible. we have food safety, small business loan, job training programs, summer good programs for the hungry. members of both sides of the aisle deserve to know what the number is so we can figure out what the pain is going to be. republicans say the numbers will come.
prebail-out, prebinge spending levels, 2008 or less. congressman dreier introduced the ground rules for debate tonight and has no illusions about the process ahead. it won t be easy, but that is the message we got from the american people last november 2. we ought to look in every way possible to reduce spending as much as possible. some democrats made clear they believe spending must be trimmed and hope the president will join the evident. i hope the president will be hands on to say he s ready to take political risks if we are to get america s books back in balance for sake of the children and grandchildren. democratic senator kent conrad said they look at all the spending, tarp, spending, auto bail-out and healthcare bill and think it s too much. what i hear across my state are three words. enough is enough. it truck people that there was too much coming from the federal government.
prebail-out, prebinge spending levels, 2008 or less. congressman dreier introduced the ground rules for debate tonight and has no illusions about the process ahead. it won t be easy, but that is the message we got from the american people last november 2. we ought to look in every way possible to reduce spending as much as possible. some democrats made clear they believe spending must be trimmed and hope the president will join the evident. i hope the president will be hands on to say he s ready to take political risks if we are to get america s books back in balance for sake of the children and grandchildren. democratic senator kent conrad said they look at all the spending, tarp, spending, auto bail-out and healthcare bill and think it s too much. what i hear across my state are three words. enough is enough. it truck people that there was too much coming from the federal government.
discretionary spending is it a lot better and gives us an opportunity to come back in march and cut back even even further. this continuing resolution of 2010 spending is some 16 percent over what was spent on discretionary in 2008. we pledged to the american people we would roll back the spending to prebail out and prestimulus 2008 levels and that s what we intend to do. senator mack bachus said it is harder it implement. clearly fewer resources to any program, the harder it is to implement it. that said. i am you saw the report from pete stark. called dangerous to america s health. republican plan to dismand mantel american health care. you ever trying to block people with preexisting medical conditions and from