the power has you the right to do that. of th yeah, the power of thegith purse super seeds even with the president s ability to wage war, if he cutoff funding c they cooperate do it.fu so they could have thevo votes to do it?certaly they tried to cutoffnd funding and we defeated them. i they have the right. it is an extreme right to use, o but i think in a case such as this, especially where itiay w involves using civilian courts on american territory, congress has a right to assert itself. let s shift to the christmas bomber. what has the white house told you about the interrogation of mutallab and the decision to ma ran dies him of a he decided to go quiet.n have they told you anything more than we read in the press? this white house is reluck, at the present time to telln you reluctant to tell you th anything involving the detroitl bombing or anything involving
invest. he says i want to passst healthcare that will push new s costs and the cap and trade,ltha that will raise energy prices.nz being unionized will raisebo your labor costs. if you are a businessman orr woman and you hear thatea speech, what message are youspch atving? a mixed message at best ies think.k, his primary responsibility is washington.to a the federal budget is spendingsp is up to nearly 25% of gdp. it is almost a historic high in our time. revenue is down to 14% of gdpn in part because of thece but beion. between that you have a a massive deficit pushed by allitp of the spending in the past the year. that is something thats somethi congress is very,ng very nervou about because of theabout b massachusetts vote. massachuse is nervous is nervous abouttt the size of the deficit. he wanted congress to create a commission. congress refused to do that. he is going to do it on its it own.wn i think what he will do is get
democrats since eric holder announced the decision lateas last year. was w lat there was word president obama asked holder to look forr alternative locations. this year this week peter ind king announced a bill that t would prohibit the justicejuic department funds to try the detainees in civilian courts.ci he is the ranking republican on the hou se committee onlica homeland security.e comm he joins meit now.. congressman, welcome. thank you, paul.ou, pa so we got word the white house is reconsidering holdingse this trial in manhattan.tt. how do you explain the reversal? i think the most honest hon appraisal is they read thes election results in massachusetts. scott brown polls show 70% ofpli people in massachusetts areweosd opposed to trials being held in the united states. the terrorist trials held inso the court.ia the detroit bombing onthatlus te christmas day which theombi administration totallychristmas mishandled and has continued to mishandle, i think theo democrats and
i have no doubt that if nancy pelosi and harry reid allow this to come to a vote, it will pass overwhelmingly and probably every republican and a large number of democ rats.el how dowry spond to thef charge how do you respondyo to the charge some would makeld that this would be a n wou unconstitutional infringement on the president s war powers?n he has the right under the constitution to name enemy combatants and he needs toabo decide when and where to try these.try congress can t cutoff funds. it is ironic for a president who has been so was re sluctant to use the termlu war and an administrationan as that is stro reluctant to useenr the word terrorism theyroat would try to envoke war powers to justify this poll sigh. policy. d it is a debate worth having. it if it is overseas that is one thing. type of we are talking about imposingone this risk on local governments and the people of this country. congress has a right to speak up and be heard. a so it is basically s