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Since then, democrats have put together legislation and a legislative strategy on this issue. for that, it helps that it polls really well. democrats love the idea of raising the minimum wage. a majority of independents like the idea, a majority of republicans like the idea. everybody likes the idea of raising the minimum wage except elected republicans. they will not allow it to come up for a vote. democrats arent no control of the house so they cant control what comes up for a vote. the speake...

Democrats and republicans both said this is something they support. why is this not a given? why arent lawmakers in d.c. clammering to make the minimum wage ahead of the mid terms? >> the donor class, three words. i would totally think its an issue, 76% of americans support raising the minimum wage. we have the donor class, never have we seen so much wealth and power concentrated in so few peoples hands, the business lobby and restaurant lobby and its all of these forces but the president is out...

Stand still and, quote, neither will i. couple of other items to point out, weve learned in the last several minutes that the president will announce new retirement savings accounts that americans can put their money into out of their paychecks. the president will talk about that. hell make an expassioned plea for immigration reform. he will not hammer republicans over the inability to pass immigration reform. he wants to keep some space there for republicans to bring something to his desk. >> s...

Two or three years might have to be thrown out of court. >> theres thousands of rules, and as far as i know theres three overturned. >> you know how much money the american taxpayer has had wasted. >> the thousands of others hes done, have they been challenged or overturned? >> i think what eric is saying is important. that means that the decisions that the nlrb, not talking about president obamas executive action, that those nlrb decisions will now be in dispute so thats the part of the uncerta...

We give them the opportunity to earn a wage that they can survive on in the richest country on the face of the ea h earth. thats the issue. 10.10 is a minimum. its not a ceiling. its not the maximum. its not what we want people to aspire to. it is what we ought to do as a country to make sure there is a minimum. ed, in 1968, in 2013 dollars, the minimum wage today would be $10.20. >> i find senator rubios comment very interesting. he admits to the people what they think doesnt matter. it polls w...

Felt some need. is there any sense that republicans might be opened to some kind of compromise this year on raising the minimum wage? >> when you open it up, the wage issue we were talking about before, there are republicans that said they need to talk about it, chank their rhetoric. talk less about tax cuts for the rich, more about trying to increase the opportunity for the middle class. so when, put through that prism, you may have some republicans that are thinking about this. i think we have...

Data that indicates that people who receive welfare or cash benefits use drugs at a higher rate than the rest of the general population. it seems as though this is really more of a political issue. the governor campaigned on it, as you said, when he was running for governor in 2010, and it polls really well among republicans shortly after the lawsuit was filed in 2011, a quinnipiac university poll of floridians showed that more than 70% of floridians supported testing welfare recipients, and tha...

For have been counting on federal emergency aid which has been going on for five years now. its tough not to feel for them. >> its tough not to feel for them. this is also something thats been voted on repeatedly by republican congresss and democratic congresses. its always been paid for, and if this is extended again, it will be paid for. this is not going to add to the deficit. >> let me quickly point that out. unemployment benefits extended another year would cost $25 million. speaker john bo...

For have been counting on federal emergency aid which has been going on for five years now. its tough not to feel for them. >> its tough not to feel for them. this is also something thats been voted on repeatedly by republican congresss and democratic congresses. its always been paid for, and if this is extended again, it will be paid for. this is not going to add to the deficit. >> let me quickly point that out. unemployment benefits extended another year would cost $25 million. speaker john bo...

For have been counting on federal emergency aid which has been going on for five years now. its tough not to feel for them. >> its tough not to feel for them. this is also something thats been voted on repeatedly by republican congresss and democratic congresses. its always been paid for, and if this is extended again, it will be paid for. this is not going to add to the deficit. >> let me quickly point that out. unemployment benefits extended another year would cost $25 million. speaker john bo...