Again, we have put forward a specific set of proposals on both the revenue and the spending side.
We have put forward a clear principle that where we can resolve issues through negotiations and diplomacy, we should.
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But on the question of whether or not we have put forward specific spending cuts, the answer is we have.
We have put forward a fiscal commission that is then going to examine how do we deal with these broader structural deficits.
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There are also things that we have put forward as alternatives to reaching them, in Medicaid savings, for example, or other areas that are real cuts.
We understand that Republicans may not agree with all of them, but it is simply uncontestable that we have put forward a plan with spending cuts.
We have put forward substantial and specific savings in entitlement programs, both health care entitlements and non-health care mandatories, to use budgetspeak, including farm subsidy programs and others.
"We have put forward a couple of options to the ICC in a meeting we had with anti-corruption unit in October for a change in the reporting system, " he added.
And we have put forward a jobs bill that independent economists -- not my team, not my administration -- have said would grow the economy substantially and put up to 1.9 million people back to work.
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We have put forward a series of proposals to make sure that regulations that may be unnecessary and are hampering some businesses from investing, that we are examining all of those for their cost and their benefits.
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But we have, in answer to the question of where are your spending cut proposals, it must be a rhetorical question because those who ask it know that we have put forward very specific spending cut proposals.
We have put forward a plan that is more generous to Republican concerns than a bipartisan plan that was supported by a number of Republican senators, including at least one that is in Republican leadership in the Senate.
"The proposals we have put forward will mean that those who earn the least will pay much less than they do at the moment, those who earn the most will pay over the odds to provide a subsidy to allow people from poor backgrounds to go to university, " he said.
So we have not put forward any artificial timeline in terms of how long this will take.
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And working with people like Claire McCaskill, we have already put forward a budget that will cut the deficit in half by the end of my first term.
We have economists here who put forward policy proposals and assessments of the future.
And what we have said is we put forward proposals to get us part of the way there.
It means we will have the chance to put our case forward in a way in which we can actually be cross-questioned, get the arguments across and we'll get a fair hearing.
We will continue to put forward all the facts that we have available to us.
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"We have our business case to put forward and of course we'll put that to the football authorities who we must convince that we are able to fulfil fixtures, " he said.
As we all know one of the arguments put forward these days is that we have to have a lot more manufacturing done domestically.
But we have still not delivered the vision put forward in that hotel room 20 years ago.
We now have legislation in the Senate put forward by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, with 13 co-sponsors, that the President supports.
"We have been open to the arguments put forward by Bourgoin who are delighted to reach this European final, " said the statement from tournament organisers European Rugby Cup.
And I think we have seen Kofi Annan on his mission put forward a plan.
So a lot of these initiatives that we've launched have come on line, and similarly we'll be looking to put forward new markers on this trip as to how we can continue to push into areas like energy cooperation and continued security cooperation going forward.
As I said earlier, we look forward to seeing what Republicans have put out.
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