second has been all these policy riders killing environmental regulation and health care. the third area of dispute, which is even if they agree on the billion dollar number, the amount they are cutting, what are the specific cuts you make to get to that number? the tea party people out and boehner representing them have been pretty intransigent in saying, the cuts that go and have to be cuts that come out of our bill, our h r-1 build. the white house has said we have alternative ideas that are sound and lead to damaging in terms of hitting education, poor people, costing jobs, some better designed cuts. there has been resistance to some of those. part of what they are doing or most of what they are doing tonight is for the dollar level of cuts that is common to both of them, trying to see if they agree on what are the specific cuts you take to get to that number. bob, if you were advising the president on this, what would you tell him he absolutely could not cut? what would be the c
change the compensation of a congressperson without an intervening election. it s plain simple english in the 27th amendment. google it. you did not vote for eric kantor s unconstitutional proposal that he called the prevention of the government shutdown act which wouldn t prevent it, and had the stunningly crazy, unconstitutional notion in it are that if the house of representatives simply voted for it and passed it a bill could become law just by passing the house of representatives? i voted present on that, and i took a little bit of heat from it. it was clearly unconstitutional. i took an oath to preserve the constitution. i couldn t vote that way. i couldn t vote, also, to pay us without paying the military. that would just be wrong. congressman, i have to commend you on not joining eric kant kantor, your leader on this most absurd anti-constitutional act he took.
if they don t kill planned parenthood, what do you do? well, i actually think that the riders related to epa and fcc regulations that can destroy millions of jobs are much more significant those are the ones you care about the most? i can t speak for them. come on, stop being silly. come on, they pay you to speak for them. you made a number of comments i want to refute that i think are very important. the house republicans have passed a bill to fund the government through the end of this fiscal year. they passed a short term funding, senate democrats have failed to pass a bill to fund the government through the end of this fiscal year. they re not putting their cards on the table and saying where they stand. from where i am, it looks like they re the es trying to engineer a government shutdown so they can blame it on republicans, i don t think they should be allowed to get away with that. thank you for joining us tonight. coming up, a come from behind surge in the ele
is that all last year we did not get this done because the republicans prevented there being 60 votes in the senate to pass an appropriations bill. unless there were a certain level of cuts in it. harry reid threw up his hands and said i will take that level of cuts. the road a bipartisan bill and in december, mcconnell moved the goal posts because the house republicans told him to. very, very important point. thank you all for it joining us. thank you. thank you. all right. still to come, what do the american people think about the shutdown and who will they blame? a look at the new wall street journal poll with howard fineman. michele brockman says she is betting against the government shut down. that is not what her tea party followers want to hear.
not make that boehner might be asking him to make to close the deal? there is not just one or two, the republican bill is filled with really unjustifiable cuts. cutting pell grants of lower income children to get a college education, even states facing budget crises are raising tissues. cutting low-income shoulder it off headstart and live plants to have a better opportunity in life. or cutting the irs budget. does this make sense if we have a budget deficit that we want to do less to go after tax cheating and let more of the money that is legally owed the uncollected? there are a large number of things that really ought to be defensible in my understanding. the white house has a list. they have a list of alternative cuts that they believe are much less damaging.