to start. i think jobs and the economy are what consumers are concerned about. they want us to act. approving the keystone pipeline which would put a lot of people to work almost immediately. martha: nike man well is with us from washington. mike, how are they going to do that? reporter: republican leaders believe helping the middle class and the economy can be an issue with president obama. republicans argue that will put thousands americans to work almost immediately. some democrats will likely say with gasoline prices low there isn t any great you areien i to build the pipeline.
and a little really modest entitlement reform. paul ryan, the republican who did the negotiating, said look, this is the best we could do because there are a lot of people on the other side of the aisle who wanted washington to shut down again. i think there are a lot of people who would like the drinks of government shutdown for one reason or another. i think they would like to get off obamacare. we re going to keep speak truth to power. we re going to keep shining the light on these problems with the law and that, to us, gives us a good position. budget still over a trillion dollars. some of the military cuts with the military has been eased to the tune of $63 billion. in terms of a massive restructuring of our debt and deficits, not happening. it s still at 17.2 trillion. what you have is there is good news, you have the head of the budget, chairman of the budget committee meeting with the