i think it is an important moment. some part of me doesn t under republican party basically has taken a standing position of disgruntled, annoyed or outraged on anything. if you look at this bill, it is not that bad for republicans. they did not like defense cuts. this alleviates some of them. there is no long-term unemployment assist inside in there. that s something that s been tabled for the new year. yet you have mike enzi out there. they can t accept they have won the broader argument about spending. i will bring to everyone s attention this quote in mother jones. the war over austerity is over. kevin drum writes, the ultimate result is a budget below even the pipe dream paul ryan budget of 2011. two years ago ryan s budget was basically at the outer limit of mainstream conservative wish lists. today it looks tame. republicans have massively changed spending conversation since 2010. austerity has won. what do you make of that. well, i think the most
to see whether it was the fda, food & drug administration. i sat 2349 committee, quite frankly, where the ryans budget was a billion in the cut to head start. all of a sudden, people have gotten religion. it sounds like it s politics, that just a few months ago we can t fund head start. it s a billion in cuts. that s not funding head start. we re telling you that we re willing to fund the perhaps that you want to fund.
i didn t think it went far enough. that was my perspective. i still voted for it cause i thought i would compromise and do a greater good. so i tried to do as much good as i can for as many people as i can and look at the legislative process that way. i do believe in the bipartisanship. as you probably recall earlier this year, i invited paul ryan to come to chicago. we have a wonderful event on immigration. he came to my town. but you saw what happened. he got millions of dollars in negative ads thrown against him and i went, many of my some of my democratic colleagues said, why are you hanging around with paul ryan? it isn t as though the congress of the united states is very receptive from either side to people working together. i think that s unfortunate. steve: you got to work together. do you think at some point the democrats are going to say, mr. president, we ve got to compromise? i think that i believe the people are saying. but let s look, when the president wanted $
and so he balances his budget in ten years by decimating health care. and the voucher from medicare, there will be a lot more uninsured people of all ages under ryan s budget. so we see the national budget logics. on the ground it s about people s lives. hurricanes are trying to provide good ways, higher reimbursement rates to doctor s offices that restructure themselves to put the patients at the center. that story that stays with me is there is a patient that we worked with at children s national medical center in d.c. her son has really severe epilepsy and dhd. and as the summer approaches she gets so worried about what will
billionaires. billionaires, sorry. this is everything republicans will never, ever agree to. we saw that in the fiscal cliff. my question is what s the plan to make them agree? congresswoman, i want to get you on this. what s the plan to make them you have a very winning personality if kwu mind my saying. the question is, through your force of personality bring the republican house to congress over. what i think is really sad about this whole conversation and what s happened in the last week is that the american public doesn t care whose budget it is. you have ryan s budget, murray budget, cpc. you know what the american public says? can you solve this problem, please? i think the american public wants, number one, congress to do no harm. that s a big ask. given what congress has done in recent years. right? problem i see with the ryan budget is it hurts the recovery that we are starting to make in our country. and it closes so-called loopholes, tax credits for things rea