But the 2012 budget that he put forward is very much a down payment on that.
It is of a piece with his budget that he put forward in February 2012.
The fact is, is that the President put forward a budget, he put forward a framework.
The alternative course, and the one he put forward this week, is to slog it out.
Look, the President is ready right now to negotiate a compromise along the lines of the one he put forward.
It is the principle that informed the proposals he put forward in his good-faith negotiations with Speaker Boehner in December.
The deal that he put forward to Speaker Boehner in December, which, unfortunately, the Speaker walked away from, remains on the table.
But we -- he put forward and worked on legislation that did not succeed in Congress because of the opposition that exists there.
The President believes that the best way to do this is the way that he put forward, with the pay-for that he put forward.
Many provisions of Simpson-Bowles are reflected in the positions he took over the summer and in the plan that he put forward in September.
That's why he compromised in the way that he did and he put forward offers that represented true good faith in their attempts to meet Republicans halfway.
And he certainly will continue to urge that committee and Congress in general to take the approach that is reflected in the detailed proposal he put forward.
He has demonstrated his willingness to agree to pay-fors that are different from the ones he put forward and from the ones that Senate Democrats put forward.
Since the beginning of these negotiations and prior to them, since the time he put forward his framework, which -- he has been calling for a balanced, bipartisan approach.
But the revenue achieved through a potential compromise here, at least the one that he put forward, would be locked in, and then the reform would be essentially revenue-neutral.
He had evidently made up his mind to attack Poland, whatever happened, and although he now says he put forward reasonable proposals which were rejected by the Poles, that is not a true statement.
That message that the President brought when he put forward the American Jobs Act was supported by a broad majority of the American people, including progressives, as well as independents and even conservatives.
And the President believes as evidenced by the proposal he put forward, and as well as the proposal that the Senate Democrats have put forward, that we need to do it in a fair way.
Mr Loughton, who lost his post in the last reshuffle, says he put forward proposals to improve regulations on children and young people working in entertainment earlier this year and was frustrated they were not taken forward.
He put forward a 2012 budget proposal that reduced the deficit by over a trillion dollars and included within it the kind of balance that he thinks is essential to deal with our longer-term deficit and debt issues.
That medium- and long-term vision also includes the substantial proposal he put forward in September to get control of our deficits and debt, which takes a very balanced approach, the kind of approach that Americans broadly say they support.
Now, with regard to Representative Ryan -- I have a lot of respect for Mr. Ryan and I have read the plan that he put forward -- it is worthy to delve into that for a moment, because it provides a contrast.
He believes that we have work to do, and he believes that both the agenda he has put forward so far and the agenda he will put forward in the future will help this country move forward in a variety of ways.
And in the name of balanced deficit reduction, he put forward the proposal that, unfortunately, even though it was widely recognized to have been made in good faith and to have represented an effort to meet the Republicans halfway, the Republicans walked away from, which is a shame.
But he -- but there are things that we need to do with Congress, and he'll continue to do that -- whether it's on energy, or transportation, or the job creation measures of the jobs act that have yet to be passed, or the startup legislation that he put forward.
And he looks forward to the Senate acting on the policy initiatives contained within his budget that will reflect the priorities he laid out in the State of the Union, and also will reflect the priorities he laid out when he put forward his deficit and debt reduction proposal back in September.
And you saw that he put forward a goal of reaching 20 percent greater efficiency in commercial buildings and really a call to action, and he asked Jeff Immelt, the head of his new council, jobs council, and obviously CEO of GE, together with former president Bill Clinton, to lead that kind of call to action.
And he will put forward his proposal, a collection of ideas that he thinks will have the most effective impact on the economy and jobs.
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