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This later and punt it down the road. we have been in enough discussions for enough months that we all know what the stakes are. every democrat is a supporter of both the john lewis bill and the freedom to vote act. so theres uniformity there. so far when we put these bills up, we get zero republican help except for lisa murkowski on the lewis act. with the stakes so high right now after the attack on the capitol to disenfranchise 80 million people and after the effort of state legislatures to d...

Checked. 90% of american agrees that we ought to have comprehensive background checks. the senate wont bring those bills up, they wont put them on the floor under republican leadership. so were continuing to work and this week alone we passed two mayor expertises of legislation. one, mostly republican opposition, to know what foreigners are buying up our corn rations, businesses, or enterprises so that the public and the u.s. will know what is russia buying up, what is try in a buying up. number...

Oversight and budget committees. congressman, are we going over the cliff? >> well we certainly hope so, hope not actually, but trying to get this resolved. the house as you know full well passed all of our sequestration documents in may. passed all of our tax documents in august and we have waited for the senate all this time and for the president frankly all this time. frustrating for the house did all our work early and be at the point we never hoped to be at. jon: when senate majority leader...

Interest rate on student loans before it doubles in, what is it, four weeks? >> well, july 1st. youre absolutely right. this is where ideology is so intense that it gets in the way of practical consideration of real problems with solutions that are within our grasp. the transportation bill is another example. we all have roads and bridges that are falling apart. america cant compete with this crumbling infrastructure that puts people to work in all of our districts. it is not a republican and de...

Debates. weve had five committees mark these bills up, listen to just about every republican who wanted to offer constructive amendment. weve incorporated several key proposals. they were for them before they were against them. they went to the floor. the republicans offered amendments. the democrats once again took time and considered most of those amendments. so when this bill is passed tonight in the house it will go to senate on tuesday. they will take up the bill. right now theyre projected...