Pelosi: Budget “Reflects the blue print for America that President Obama has put forth.”

By Kayleigh Harvey - Talk Radio News Service

At her weekly press conference, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) spoke of her delight at the budget approval in the House.
Speaker Pelosi said, “It reduces the deficit. It reduces taxes for 95 per cent of the American people. It is a job creator in every respect. When it comes to a greener America and clean energy, it creates new green jobs. When it comes to the education of our children, creating a global workforce for the 21st century, it creates jobs. When it comes to making to making America healthier through prevention, bio-medical research and technological advancement, it creates jobs.”

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Boehner calls Obama's budget "irresponsible"

At a news conference today, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) says that the Republican alternative to President Obama's budget will "create jobs by allowing American families and small businesses to keep more of what they earn." He says that the President's budget spends too much, taxes too much, and borrows too much from our kids and grandkids. "I just think that this may be the most irresponsible piece of legislation I've ever seen in my legislative career," says Boehner. (2:32)
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Boehner: "President Obama will create more debt than his 43 predecessors have in the last 220 years”

By Kayleigh Harvey - Talk Radio News Service

At a House GOP leadership stakeout this morning Republican leader Congressman John Boehner (R-OH) said: “The President’s budget spends too much, taxes too much and it borrows too much from our kids and grandkids…if you look at the debt numbers in his budget you will see that over the next six years President Obama will create more debt than his 43 predecessors have in the last 220 years.”
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Obama's Budget "Fiscally Irresponsible"

Congressman Mike Pence (R-IN) accused President Obama’s budget of “bringing forward the largest tax increase in American history” and “adding more than one trillion dollars to the national debt every year, for the next ten years,” at a House GOP stakeout today. He labeled the budget “fiscally irresponsible.”
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James Bovard: "Obama acts like federal spending is a magic wand"

Talk Radio News, Victoria Jones, interviews author, James Bovard at the 2009 Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C. Bovard talks about why he thinks President Obama's new Iraq war strategy is a step in the right direction and talks about the U.S. budget. Bovard says, "Obama acts like federal spending is a magic wand." (09:47)
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Phil Kerpen: "Its an astonishingly aggressive, ambitious budget"

Talk Radio News, Victoria Jones, interviews Phil Kerpen, Director of Policy at Americans for Prosperity at the 2009 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Kerpen talks about the new budget blueprint, calling it "astonishingly aggressive, ambitious budget" and that the government needs to learn their lesson saying that, "borrowing to much money gets you into trouble if you can't sustain that debt." (07:34)
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State Department struggles to provide training despite budget shortfalls

Ambassador Harry Thomas, who also serves as director general of the Foreign Service and director of human resources at the State Department, says state department employees today are facing more remote, dangerous locations. He reiterates the commitment of the human resources department to providing adequate resources and training to prepare these employees. However, the current budget makes it difficult to provide necessary training (:36).
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Budget and staff shortfalls crippling the State Department

Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio) says that at a time when our nation's diplomacy is at an all-time low, the State Department continues to be underfunded. He goes on to describe specific shortfalls the department is facing (:39).
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Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget Steve McMillin discusses the President's food bill request

Deputy Director of the Office of Management Steve McMillin and Budget discusses the President's food bill request during a conference call. (0:52)
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General Obering discusses legacy satellites and the future of satellite defense

General Obering, director of the Missile Defense Agency, discusses legacy satellites and the future of satellite defense at a House Armed Services Committee hearing on the missile defense budget. (0:30)
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Eighty, The New Sixty-five?

The senior fellow at Project HOPE, Gail Wilensky, talks about the new retirement age and the cost of Medicare. (:55)
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Allan Shaffer says there is still much to accomplish with our non-conventional warfare methods

At the House Armed Services Committee Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee hearing on "The FY2009 National Defense Authorization Budget Request - Department of Defense Science and Technology: Responding to the 21st Century Irregular Warfare Threat Environment," Allan Shaffer, principle deputy director of Defense Research and Engineering at the Defense Department, says over the last two years we have begun to reshape the investment of the department to work on programs in non-conventional areas, such as biometrics, human social modeling, locating tagging and tracking, surveillance, and cyber protection. While we are currently well positioned to support the force, he says, there is still much to accomplish. (:45)
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$400 billion borrowed from China

Congressman Xavier Becerra (D-CA) supporting Democratic budget measures says that new development can't happen if the United States continues to borrow money from China. (0:38)
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General George Casey, Chief of Staff for the Army, gives a grim outlook for future of conflict

Gen. Casey, testifying at a House Armed Services Committee hearing, Casey says that he sees the next few years as full of "constant conflict," and names some of the contributing factors. (0:56)
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Secretary of the Army, Pete Geren, says the Army is stretched, but not hollow

Sec. Geren, testifiying at the House Armed Services Committee hearing, says that the Army is tretched from six years of war, but it is not the "hollow force" of the 1970s. (0:31)
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Secretary of Defense Robert Gates speaks about the effects of the satellite shoot down with Pentagon pool reporters

Sec. Gates says that a U.S. military mission to shoot down a broken satellite with a tactical missile has drawn attention and understanding to the missile defense program. (0:36)
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Secretary of Defense Robert Gates speaks with pool reporters about sharing missile defense information with other countries during his trip in Hawaii

Sec. Gates says that the Pentagon shared information and gave prior notice before shooting down a defunct U.S. satellite with a modified surface-to-air missile from the U.S. missile defense arsenal. He says that the U.S. will share missile defense information with other countries when appropriate. (0:28)
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Secretary of Defense Robert Gates speaks with pool reporters about missile defense during his trip in Hawaii

Sec. Gates speaks about how U.S. missile defense systems have been proven and that the Defense Department budget supports improving capability. (0:37)
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Senator Kent Conrad, (D-ND) the Senate Budget Committee Chairman, asks about the war funding request during a hearing on the 2009 Defense budget

Senate Budget Committee Chairman, Kent Conrad, says he is disappointed with the estimate of $70 billion for supplemental war funding for 2009. (0:47)
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Assistant Secretary of Defense Gordon England speaks about the incomplete estimate for supplemental war funding during a Senate Budget Committee hearing on the 2009 Defense budget

Assistant Secretary of Defense Gordon England explains why the Department of Defense has only requested a partial amount of the supplemental war funding for the fiscal year 2009. (0:54)
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