that would provide for unemployment insurance. we should not go home. the amendment rejected yesterday should be a free standing amendment on the floor of the house tomorrow, saturday, sunday, monday, tuesday, wednesday and then go to the senate and we should make sure we get this done before we go out of here. so what my proposal is we do not go home, that we come back. it is also to ask the president to take leadership and to call the senate and indicate that this is, in essence, putting people out on the street. it is putting 2 million children out on the street. i want action, i don t want symbolism. so let s get to work and get that amendment as a free standing bill to vote for it. so you would vote yes on this budget if you can get a commitment that they ll stay in war and work for the unemployed to get something else done? if it does not do that, i want a free standing vote now
more than. that i hope we can accomplish some real savings in the mandatory spending programs, which are actually the droifrs of our long-term fiscal imbalance, but if we request get this resolved where we stick to the spending levels that are in existing law, that were passed in 2011 and signed by president obama, substituting various alternative savings for the sequester, if we can, while maintaining the savings. i d suggest two other things i d like to see, number one, let s end government by crisis. let s have a measure, a standing bill that says whenever the congress doesn t finish it s appropriations process, we just have an automatic continuation at the previous year s level. let s avoid shutdowns, thirdly, finally, let s give the administration flexibility in managing through the cuts we do have. i think if we do those three things, we will save money and avoid these manufactures crises. sam stein, are you next.
the president saying he won t negotiate when it comes to a temporary standing bill and you have the house, the house republicans saying, we re not going to talk about a resolution unless you talk obama care. you could not have two sides more polar icesed than they are right now. the president will be going to a local construction company to talk about it. you can rest assured that the president will go after republicans the way he has been to put the pressure on them to do what he wants. his way or the highway. essentially the white house lossture at this point. all right. jim at the white house. thank you. i want to explain where we stand. a very significant past 34 minutes in american political shutdown history. we ve had nancy pelosi, reid and boehner emerge from a 90-minute meeting with the president. the president did not speak but the other three did. let me play for you what the speaker said. at times like this, the american people expect their leaders to come together and t
and then harry reid and most pelosi, it was striking to me. harry reid said we are locked in tight on obama care. nancy pelosi, they want to overturn the affordable care act. that is not going to happen. erin, if we are in this stalemate for the next couple of days where basically, they re not talking to each other, i think we re entering a dangerous phase over the next couple weeks. both sides have drawn lines in the sand. the president saying he won t negotiate when it comes to a temporary standing bill and you have the house, the house republicans saying, we re not going to talk about a resolution unless you talk obama care. you could not have two sides more polar icesed than they are right now. the president will be going to a local construction company to talk about a tit.
things that are democratic, very popular amongst democratic circles, unemployment insurance, payroll tax cut, things of that nature. there s an idea amongst republicans if the president wants to extend those programs it has to be done in a larger deal. if he says, fine, let s go off the cliff, they re saying we re into the going to bring ununemployment insurance as a free standing bill, we re not going to bring up payroll tax cut as a free standing bill. those are things at risk if the white house takes a hard stand. richard, i m a little bit terrified for everyone in this, specifically, i feel like we ve learned one thing from the last four years, and the republicans will stand on your neck and stab you in the eye. this party plays hardball. and really i feel like it s a line in the sand insofar as the president is being as tough as i think he ever has been in terms of holding the line on this stuff. i worry he s antagonizing them further by adding the debt ceiling to the package an