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As you can tell patience is wearing thin on both sides with the stopgaps.
All signs point to this being the last one.
three weeks should be enough to negotiate a final deal
to get a compromise it will take a move by Speaker Boehner in our direction.
We’ve already made $51-billion
which we believe are as smart as we can make. Do I like them? I don't like them.
There isn't a single member of my Caucus that enjoyed voting on this matter today. These
are difficult cuts but we know that we have to have to do it and we have to make some
additional
progress on the long term funding of this government. But
our top concern though over on this side,
are jobs.
We’ve been told by virtually every economist
that what they're doing with this H.R.1 which is still the foundation what we're doing
here will
cause us to lose 700,000 jobs.
We need to come up with a
budget for the end of the year that doesn't just deal in big round numbers but deals in
some thinking
about the future of our economy to make sure that we are adequately funding
education, and training,
and research. We are interested in what it does people
and it's not just the writers
it's the dollars. But we’re not looking at the dollars we’re looking at what those dollars do to people.
in America and it's interesting to note
that most of all the hurt
comes to middle-class and poor people. So now we have three weeks and now it's our responsibility
to roll up our sleeves with the president and work to find a solution.
We need to do the responsible thing. We have taken a reasonable position and said we’re willing
to sit down and talk. I hope that we gather together a bipartisan fashion and solve this
national challenge.