Were really down. I said, are you kidding me . We got 2900 people to think we ought to run the country. Year after year, and then john sununu came, and we have really gathered momentum. In 1994 we elected a class of republicans who just did not give a whit about their election. They came to balance the budget. It was remarkable. And then after 10 long years in 1997, i was one of the chief architects of allen saying that federal budget. First time we have done it since man walked on the moon. We have not done it since. We paid down the largest amount of the publicly held debt in modern history, and the economy was doing great. Some of you might remember i was a giants Television Star on fox news. [laughter] you are right back, how great i was on fox news. I also worked at Lehman Brothers and learned an awful lot about this, which is so critical in terms of understanding what motivates ceos. So i left. 10 years i was out. Im a believer that if we are really not here to serve others, i do
With him. Our two reporters will be asking questions. Rachael of politico. And daniel. Daniel your first. Daniel as we mentioned, the process seemed stalled. It has been widely reported that an amendment was brought up i democrats, three amendments in fact. Can you just take us inside what happened on tuesday night through the end of that week, when the interior appropriations bill was pulled from the floor . Rep. Rogers the amendments that the democrats offered caused a number of our members to declare that they did not support the bill on fast passage. The bill was removed from the floor. It is too bad because it is a great bill. The interior appropriations bill did so many great things. It held back the epa us wild rampage towards regulating everything, among other things. Its a good bill. Its too bad we had to remove it from the floor, but i hope we can force it back. The provisions that bill will be able to be incorporated sometime this fall. Daniel im sorry. It sounds to me like
Of things but i have a Great Respect for his courage on this legislation. I think this legislation that were moving forward on is far from perfect but i listened to jim inhofe yesterday when he was on answering the president a republican always follows the president and senator inhofe i think did a fine job of spraining how important it is that we have a bill, a transportation bill. So ive said some nice things about senator boxer but its time we said susan Harold Rogers of kentucky is the chairman of the House Appropriations committee. They put out a press release saying they successfully passed all bills. We are going to talk about this with him. Our two reporters will be asking questions. Rachel of politico and daniel of daniel you are first. Daniel as we mentioned, the process seemed stalled. It has been widely reported that an amendment was brought up with democrats three amendments in , fact. Can you just take us inside what happened on tuesday night through the end of that week
Day. Where are we in the continuing drama of what the hell is going to happen to greece . Eric trying to make sense of the story is exactly what were trying to do. It has been a heck of a day here in athens, greece, because as you mentioned, we learned earlier in the day that Alexis Tsipras made a counter offer to his european creditors, saying i will take most of what you put on the table, but with some conditions. These are not minor conditions. He has some issues with the value added tax, for example. He has issues with pension reform. He wants to delay pension reform. He wants to get the give the parliament an opportunity to weigh in on labor legislation. They sound like small, discrete points, but added up, they are very important. Its not clear how well they would go down with european creditors, and im talking about the imf and the ecb and the european commission, if they were willing to sit down at the table, but what we learned from Jeroen Dijsselbloem the dutch finance minist
Day. Where are we in the continuing drama of what the hell is going to happen to greece . Eric trying to make sense of the story is exactly what were trying to do. It has been a heck of a day here in athens, greece, because as you mentioned, we learned earlier in the day that Alexis Tsipras made a counter offer to his european creditors, saying i will take most of what you put on the table, but with some conditions. These are not minor conditions. He has some issues with the value added tax, for example. He has issues with pension reform. He wants to delay pension reform. He wants to get the give the parliament an opportunity to weigh in on labor legislation. They sound like small, discrete points, but added up, they are very important. Its not clear how well they would go down with european creditors, and im talking about the imf and the ecb and the european commission, if they were willing to sit down at the table, but what we learned from Jeroen Dijsselbloem the dutch finance minist