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Ron Johnson: “It's hard to convey how dysfunctional Washington D.C. is.”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

Senator Ron Johnson on CSPAN's Washington Journal

Published December 11, 2013 | Video Starts at 37:14

And it's going to go right to the House floor and the Senate floor without the committees, budget committee looking at it. The answer is you can't. There's no doubt about it. It's hard to convey how dysfunctional Washington D.C. is. The power primarily resides in the chairman of committees and their staffs. And you know, for example, fiscal clifty, I think that was, you know, we got the final language of that at 1:36 in the morning. (37:14)

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“Social Security will hemorrhage $12.7 trillion over the next 30 years.”
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“Medicare is even worse, probably about $36 trillion over the next 30 years of deficits.”
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“We're showing $107 trillion of deficit spending over the next 30 years.”
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“Only the federal government could take three and a half years, spend almost a billion dollars and still not have any function[al] website.”
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“Estimates of 80 to 100 million Americans losing their employer sponsored care, being forced to purchase insurance through the exchanges.”
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“The cost to comply with regulations [is] about $1.8 trillion, a figure that's larger than all but eight economies in the world.”
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“Tom [Coburn] has identified about 48 different jobs training programs spending about $31 billion per year.”
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“Over 30 years somewhere between 56 and $107 trillion of deficits.”
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“President Obama got about a trillion dollars in tax increases in the health care law.”
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“With the fiscal cliff deal, [President Obama] got another $600 billion [in tax increases].”
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“In the Budget Control Act, we got about $2.1 trillion of spending restraint.”
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“In fiscal year 2013, we raised $669 billion more in federal revenue through economic growth.”
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“The tax increase President Obama got, fiscal cliff over 10 years is $600 billion.”
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“Your share of the federal debt today, your individual share is $54,000.”
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“Federal workers on average are compensated higher than private sector people.”
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“In terms of the total cost of benefits for federal workers, somewhere in the $40,000 range.”
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“For state and local public officials, somewhere in the $30,000 range.”
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“For private sector workers, it's mid teens, 15, $16,000.”
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“There's no reason at all, none, zero, to ever default on any obligation.”
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“We haven't passed an appropriation bill in the Senate in two years.”
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“We've been keeping interest rates artificially low.”
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“We create these asset bubbles. We've created an asset bubble certainly in the housing market.”
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“The long term driver of debt and deficit is the mandatory spending programs.”
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“Millions of Americans lost their health care, those individuals on the individual market.”
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“You can see employers starting to drop employer based coverage in the tens of millions.”
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“If you're a 27 year old male, your premiums are going to increase by 124% [in Wisconsin].”
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“If you're a female 27 years old, they're going up by about 78% [in Wisconsin].”
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