Host representative steny hoyer of maryland, the number two House Democrat host this is how the New York Times concludes its front page article host that again its from the New York Times. Here is the wall street journal specifically on a spending bill issue that came up this week. Senate spending bill blocked host well, we want to get your views on the federal budget and the process as the Congress Gets ready to recess. They are in today, and after that, five weeks off. The federal budget is uncertain as congress recesses. For republicans, 202 5853880 for democrats, and 202 5853882 for independents. You can also contact us through social media, cspanwj is our twitter and appeared you consider email if youd like to journal cspan. Org. Hill newhell savor this morning host that is from the hill newspaper. And from politico this morning john boehner calls for a shortterm continuing resolution. Heres a little bit from the speaker from yesterday. [video clip] the appropriators have a tough job over the last couple of years. They have taken a lot of tough votes in their committee. So i understand the frustration that they are dealing with. But i just want to make clear the sequestration is going to remain in effect until the president agrees to cut some toorms that will allow us remove it. The president insisted on the sequester, and none of us wanted, none of us like it. There are smarter ways to cut spending. The house has moved twice over the last year and a half to replace the sequester. We saw no action in the United States senate. So if they want the sequester to go, we will have to get serious about our longterm spending problem. Host that was a little bit of Speaker Boehner from yesterday. On our facebook page, a lot of conversation already going on. Cut jay, he says everything but basic services. Jimmy says, if obama cared, he would be a better president. He dont, so here we go again. Jeff says nothing new from this pathetic congress. Theiams comments let government shutdown, maybe they will be able to screw us, spy on us, or cover their scandals up. Who am i kidding, they will find a way to do that anyway. Another says eliminate republicans in the house, eliminate the problem. And tom says they should have their pay suspended for not doing their job. Oregon on our, democrat line. What do you think about the federal budget and federal budget process as it stands . I think they are just playing games with us because they try to do this once before. My question is, as a senior citizen, i get my Social Security from my bank. If that money does not know when, and i live in housing, which is also government, how might going to pay my rent . As far as people that have automatic payments that come out of their accounts, those are going to go unpaid, and there will be fees from the banks. But we will stack up before we ever know if we will get any money. When will we get our money if they close the government . , is Social Security, are they going to put me on the street . Host that is ruby in eugene, oregon. From politico senator tom coburn continued his criticism of infection of his party host robert is a republican in baltimore. Caller hi. This budget thing is a mess. The house passes lots and lots of budget things that never get picked up in the senate, and the Senate Finally passes a budget, and the house will not take it up. You know, we have got to pass it in both houses of congress, so somebody has got to Start Talking to somebody to figure out what they can get through. At least ink god, my opinion, for sequestration. At least that is limiting the amount of spending that is going on out there. I like the fact that the president wants to take credit for deficit reduction, but it is because of the sequestration how ithe complains about is actually happening. So i do not know. Something has got to happen because the 17 trillion is something that, you know, i do not think any american can wrap their head around as far as a national debt. The reality is eventually that ruby was just talking about it, eventually those checks are not going out. Those checks are not going out to the people that need them. Thiss the congress fixes because the administration has not offered any meaningful solution to this problem. I think somebody needs to get the big boy pants on and do something about it. Int that is robert baltimore. Robert, thank you for calling in. A couple more facebook comments. And cut the whole budget make all feds fill out a requisition for payments with a Job Description of their duties and exactly what they do from start to quit. Xavier says the government just received a record 2. 7 trillion in tax revenue, but that is not enough to operate from . That means there is a major problem with this government. Bobby is a democrat in urbana, illinois. Hi, bobby. Caller hello. My comment is the republicans have not done nothing since we have president obama in office. I think it is a shame. Theyre going on a reset, they have a conference all day. People have got to realize that whenever they talk about cutting about spending, they talk about cutting your benefits like Social Security. They want to cut that. It is not obama that wants to do it. It is those doggone republicans. It is a shame that we got these evil in office and all they are doing is holding up progress. I thank you very much. Donna in york, pennsylvania, republican. Caller how are you this morning . Host good. Congress, if they are out for five weeks again, that is all a thing to do is go out and leave all the time. And another thing, they should not shut down the government, they should just stop the money going into obamacare. We do not need obamacare. Thank you. Host cnn did an analysis about congress, and here is the headline congress in d. C. Far less than it used to be. It is by lisa desjardins. Host that is a little bit from the cnn article. The next voice we are going to dale, from pennsylvania. Caller i wanted to call about the guy who said the deficit is only decreasing because of the sequestration. That is not your. You have to stop that is not true. You have to stop listening to those people on fox news and the other liars. The deficit has decreased every year since obama has been in office. Detroit, youention hear about the vagrancy, they put on the labor unions and the government there and so forth. Is a placeriver called windsor, candidates, where Ford Motor Company have a major plant. That plan does not have to pay for the medical benefits for the workers. That is why ford is very successful. Youve got to look at everything within that aim. Just General Motors did not know what they were doing. Motors the general pushing brooms making 100 an hour. I tell you what, funny one of those jobs, and i will give you 20 of my pay every week. Thank you very much. Host the next call independent line. Valerie, you are on the washington journal. Caller good morning. Benjamin should quit listening to the liars on msnbc. What i really called to see as i do not see how there will ever be a copper mines when you have one side that look believes in Big Government and one and more spending and one side that leaves in Smaller Government and less spending. I do not see how there can never be a copper mine. A compromise. They are two totally different, nothing in common. Host valerie, where do you stand on that . Caller i stand for i want Smaller Government and less spending. Countryhaving half the on entitlements. I am a selfemployed, Small Business owner. I work my ass off. I mean, sorry. I cannot even tell you how many hours i work. Just seeing 47 whatever of the people who are not working at all, and so many people working parttime not of their own choice, i am for getting the government out of our every single waking moment and every breath we take and getting less control of us. Let us just live our lives. I am totally against what is happening what right now. Host what kind of business you have . Caller i am in communications. Host and how does the government affect your working life . Caller well, i have a lot of customers. I work for many different types of business because i installed wiring for phones and computers and voicemail systems, computer networks. I work for just about any kind of business you can think of. And i have lost in this administration 50 of my customers. That has been because theyre no longer there. They have gone out of business. They have not been able to afford staying in business. They cannot pay what they cannot of all of the high costs everything, the regulations have driven them out of business or in i have lost out of business. I have lots half of my customers. Most of them are gone or hanging on with skeleton crews. I know their parking lots are in deep. Warehouses that have Construction Supplies and things. There is hardly anybody there. Things just a are not going good. I dollyou, i do not care what in bc msnbc tells you. It is not that good up there. You have people that are surviving but not thriving. There is a big difference. Host valerie, one more question, from your perspective in hawaii, what discovers look like . Caller the state congress or federal host u. S. Congress. From your perspective in hawaii, how does the u. S. Congress by karen washington look like . Caller u. S. Congress, that goes back to the very beginning of what i said. I dont see how theyre going to come to any agreements because you have two different ways one wants bigger government, one wants smaller, one wants more spending, i feel like they i guess theyre both doing what their constituents are asking them to do. ,ne side one thing, spend more more government, the other side being the opposite. So i guess they really kind of are doing what we are asking them. Were just asking them to do two opposite things. Ost thank you, valerie we appreciate it. This is from a recent pew poll that came out. They were asking they were talking to the members of the Republican Party about their party and how they wanted to see it go, and they say move in a more conservative or moderate directional policy. 40 to host larry in canton, massachusetts, the federal budget rosses and the federal budget is uncertainty as Congress Gets ready to is uncertain as congress is ready to reset spirit what are your thoughts . Caller good morning. I am a republican, black man. I own my business am i am doing well appear, i do not see anything that suggests that i will be able to cut back on the budget. You have all the of these folks here now. You can throw them off. Cant throw you them off. I agree that you need to scale back your how to do that is debatable. I think giving the president obama a hand, he played well. He could have done it better. But overall, i am pleased with the direction of the country. I do not think we went from a gloom and doom period. Some people are doing well, some are doing some are not feared overall, some are not. Overall, most of my friends are doing well and i am doing well here. My company is doing well, so are my employees. So again, there are some sectors that are not doing that well. That i will agree with you on that. Overall, it is not a gloom and doom situation in america. That is my personal view. I think that in time, it will work itself out. Title we the must do something about the entitlement program. If it were not for obama, it has been this way for a wild you cannot blame him about folks who are getting all of these so called Free Services in my opinion. Host what kind of business . Caller we are in mental health. Host and why are you republican . Caller because i believe in their tenets, their principles, Smaller Government, i believe in that. Strong military, i believe not. But they work hard. Throw my neighbors overboard because im doing well. One time i was not doing so well. So because im doing well now, do i say to hell with them and throw them aboard . I dont think so. So we have got to have a better approach how we help you use programs come the state understand you have a lot of folks out here give support because if you give them free stuff, there was a advantage of it. But i do not say because im doing well now, to heck with them. All right, larry, thank you for your time. Back to the Pew Research Poll of republicans. All republicans agree with the , thearty 37 say yes registered republicans, 42 . Always vote in the primary it goes up to nearly half, 49 . Disagree with or no opinion of the tea party, 60 . The next call is lenny, a democrat in prescott, arizona. Lenny, you are on the washington journal, talking about the federal budget and the federal budget process. Caller good morning. I would like to assert that i know exactly what is going on here. Let me run it by you. Thedefine the word word as fast as him. Is fascism. Fascism is the dismantling of government including programs and services through corporate takeover and privatization of public assets with belligerent and primitive patriotism. That is what is going on here. Want to do is privatized for corporate profits our assets, national parks, transportation, postal service. They want to privatize it for corporate profits, which means our taxes will skyrocket. So the Big Government, small government thing that debate is they want to privatize our democracy. That is what im here to assert. I hope everybody heard that definition. Host that was lenny in prescott, arizona. Heres the front page of the Washington Post this morning no budget deal in sight as congress nears break. Host leaders of both parties say they want to avoid these outcomes. Republicans have so far refused to open official negotiations with democrats over either a budget blueprint for 2014 or over suspend specific spending bill host that is from the Washington Post this morning. This article is in the New York Times. This is about what the house is going to be doing this morning. They come in at 9 00 a. M. Republicans reveal effort to cripple healthcare law. Robert pear writes host rudy, ontario, california on our independent line. What are your thoughts about this discussion this morning . Good morning to everyone. I have a couple of comments. One of them is that we are discussing a federal budget, but we are using a message to look at it. I am an independent because i believe that we need to really look at the system under which we live, which is capitalism. It is something you dont ever hear about. The wall street journal on by Rupert Murdoch does not ever mention capitalism. There is no one in television that mentions the system under which we live. Which says that we must live a certain amount of profits. When you try to make a budget for the government, the government does not run like a business. People, both democrats and republicans, want to run it like a business because it has been run like a business since the civil war. We will go back and all the things that were made, they were made in, they are still being made now. So the people have benefited from the civil war our stomach and the money. Civil war are still making the money. They want to use the budget to do how they can further things for their friends who put them in office. And who are their friends . Make aple who want to profit. When you legalize greed, and this is what is going on now, we are legalizing greed. You have wall street, not one person, they say they cant confirm, they can put them in our ear why is that . They pass laws and they tell you straight out i am doing wrong, but it is the law. So who make things laws who makes these laws . Leave itre going to there. That is rudy in ontario, california. Get over it next week ghetto if youll be shut down the government, they will not be reelected in november. Another newspaper host top gop tax writers like senator john thune say comments like schumers make them even more skeptical. Michigan. In you are on the washington journal. Caller sir, how are you doing . Host good. Caller thank you for allowing me to be on the air, and i really love the network. I listen to the litany of in, fox news,g csm msnbc, cnn, obviously the agendaannels will have and they both have a narrative that they push, which is dividing conquer. And argue is divide and conquer and argue. Our budget, the last time i look, we bring in two point 4 trillion of the country and revenue from the taxpayers. Trillion of the country and revenue from taxpayers. Were at 60 trillion in debt. Medicare liability of the 85 trillion. Eclipsedoan debt just 1 trillion. Credit card debt is approaching 1 trillion. I cannot understand why people are sitting here arguing. We all have gotten here on a different ship. Were now on the same boat. We will all sink together. I am ae democrats republican, yes, am i proud, no. Have they helped manifest debt along with the democrats . Absolutely. But we will be sitting here fighting over democrat, republican. Our country is completely game bankrupt today. And my daughters future outcome does not seem to well at 11 years old. It is crazy. I wish that people would come together. The goal of the parties is to divide. Said, wel like i all got on a different ship but we are here on the same boat. Our country is completely bankrupt. Host that is smart and on our republican line. This is from the smoking gun this morning host in light of what was happening, it seems obvious to ask ms. Cretu to delete e mails. On a regularos basis, lots of family photos with her nieces, who she adores, family reunions, her wedding anthem bathing suit photos, nothing improper. This will they french at that electronically became very personal and then back to normal this was a friendship that became very personal and then went back to normal. Host here is the photo in question that they are talking about. There is secretary powell and the romanian diplomat. This again is from the smoking gun this morning. Incompetent, california, democrats line. Your thoughts on the federal budget process. Compton,is in california. Caller oh, hi, thank you for taking my call. I have been wondering how many people have been laid off because of cutting Government Spending. That is