Brooks, Marcus on 'Absurdity' of Shutdown Debates, Paul...

Name: Brooks, Marcus on 'Absurdity' of Shutdown Debates, Paul...
Uploaded: 2011-04-09T00:44:00Z
Duration: P782S
Description: New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus discuss the battles over the short- and long-term government budgets, including deadlocked negotiations over funding for this fiscal year and GOP Rep. Paul Ryan's budget proposal for fiscal year 2012.

Clip: 04/08/2011 | 13m 2s

New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus discuss the battles over the short- and long-term government budgets, including deadlocked negotiations over funding for this fiscal year and GOP Rep. Paul Ryan's budget proposal for fiscal year 2012.

Aired: 04/08/11

Rating: NR

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