Baseline Bill News Today

Online voter registration, which the majority of states have, but we cant even get a hearing on in the state of texas. so this baseline bill would provide for more access. the problem in texas is that they reduce the access and then after they reduce the access, they do other things to make it even more difficult to vote as far as things such as what they talked about earlier this week when they talked about if you dont recall which form of i.d. you use when you registered, whether it was the la...

Happening. polly hooper, josh lederman know a lot about this. molly, because you cover capitol hill. youve been talking to people about this. garrett talked about this time line. >> yes. >> optimistic is like a nice way of putting it. this is coming up really quick. >> it is coming up really quick. and again figuring out what baseline bill will be is key. if they start off with the bill that president trump wants, mcconnell says okay from there we can offer amendments to that. ostensibly there c...

>> >> shepard: did he not anticipate that more moderate senators may think this is not enough for people, the medicaid cuts were too much or more conservative members want more or less government. is he trying to say, lets not do anything, and blade the democrats. >> youre at the polls here. your moderates on one side, who dont like it, get more conservatives on the other side i dont like it. the republican whip said every time you get one bullfrog in the wheel barrel, another one drops out. tha...

Markets are always poised for perfection here and that this thing has to go off without a hitch. so the gorsuch hearing go off with out a hitch and the tax cuts go off without a hitch. if this stumbles, then all of that stumbles too. do you agree? >> a little bit. i think theyre both right. i think theres an opportunity for secrecy to get the committees to do their job, to get a baseline bill out there. eventually include all the various members of this house and senate. i think rand is right as...

>> we should cut off every penny of taxpayer funds. >> reporter: senator rand paul introduced an amendment today that would halt federal funds going to planned parent hoot. the white house doesnt want to do that. >> youve heard me take a pretty dim view in the past of ideological writers that are unrelated to the -- to the baseline bill. >> reporter: other democrats are now pushing to portray planned parenthood officials who didnt know they were being recorded as victims with several house democ...

Hear the pressure from outside the beltway which is theres only so much repression latinos and other imgrajtds are going to take. thats the fact that has to be underlined in this. were fed up with 1.7 million. if barack obama continues along the path that hes on, and he could be the big loser of this. lets look at this -- >> the line that was drawn sort of legislatetively the line drawn this week was on the cornyn amendment. you had even chuck schumer saying were going not going that far. whats ...

People like harry reid give the gun lobby far too much credit. >> sam, whats your reaction to that? >> they say the same thing, that the nra has trumped that. and the only thing i would add to that is this. weve seen a tlot of recent pollings, specifically background checks, and its universally popular. i dont see any other issue polling at 90% popularity. if you read specific issues it might dip. this is a noncontroversial bill. it would be surprising to me if democrats felt concerned or nervou...

Latest updates on this topic.