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In legislative terms, filled amendment tree, essentially offered republicans offering amendments and hasnt given us anything to look at. were happy to have this debate. we welcome the opportunity to debate whether or not we ought to raise taxes on a million small businesses at a time when were trying to get americans back too work and get the economy going and expanding again. bill: on that note you called the presidents push on this whole matter reckless. how come? >> well it is because the pre...

Look at where we are relative to the election. and how incorrectably fraught with political implication these amendments are. the defense authorization bill which containses a lot of things that are national security-related would not be open to amendment on national security-related iron use. senator reid did what they call filling the -- amendment tree making it impossible for republicans who want to offer defense-related amendments to offer those amendments. it is inside baseball. they wanted...