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Disapproval. and then passing my legislation, which will be the internet freedom act. >> judge napolitano: 15 seconds left. im holding up two lightbulbs, good old fashioned thomas edison one and one of the horrible ones that doesnt work. youre leading the forefront to stop the government from forcing to us use these in our homes. are we going to win? will we have freedom of light in our homes? >> you will have freedom of light in your homes and we are picking up cosponsors every day. thank you f...

Disapproval. and then passing my legislation, which will be the internet freedom act. >> judge napolitano: 15 seconds left. im holding up two lightbulbs, good old fashioned thomas edison one and one of the horrible ones that doesnt work. youre leading the forefront to stop the government from forcing to us use these in our homes. are we going to win? will we have freedom of light in our homes? >> you will have freedom of light in your homes and we are picking up cosponsors every day. thank you f...

>> a google executive says he is not a hero, just the guy on the keyboard. egyptian police released him after holding him for more than a week. he was one of the people behind the facebook page that fueled the protest. winter is on another rampage today, a big snowstorm is pushing out of the rockies and into the plains. oklahoma city and tulsa could see a foot of fresh snow. dallas will get hit for the second time this month. and a bill denying u.s. citizenship to the children of illegal immig...

The collapse of our aaa rating, and our solvency and government, and the end of the world as we know it. >>guest: that is not true. i am pleased to call myself a cosponsor, one of the original cosponsors of senator toomeys legislation protecting the faith and credit of the united states by making sure that we dont default on our obligations. >>neil: but that is the one, senator, that is the one where toomey said when we are in that brink, we may sure we pay our most important obligations first w...

About making a real whack at entitlements. republicans it seems to me are on pretty safe ground when they try to cut back to 2008 or 2006 levels which the public thinks is high. they cant unilaterally pass that and put it into effect. my sense about that is they will be in trouble if they dont try and very little trouble if they do. >> chris: what do you make of the apparent split between for lack of a better word the gop establishment and the -- >> when paul ryan put out his road map he didnt g...

About making a real whack at entitlements. republicans it seems to me are on pretty safe ground when they try to cut back to 2008 or 2006 levels which the public thinks is high. they cant unilaterally pass that and put it into effect. my sense about that is they will be in trouble if they dont try and very little trouble if they do. >> chris: what do you make of the apparent split between for lack of a better word the gop establishment and the -- >> when paul ryan put out his road map he didnt g...

Side occurred with 73 cosponsors but now were back up to 70. in intervening years, number of supporters dipped because we werent looking at congress abusing the powers. now under the current congress, there are more and more members who say this is a good idea. more importantly than that, in the united states senate, my colleague tom coburn introduced it and there are 24 cosponsors. that is a pretty significant number of members of the united states senate who say look, congress should live with...

We have a number of colleagues on as cosponsors. we frankly, need some republican colleagues to step up. folks are out of work in every state, democrats and republicans. this is not a partisan issue. >> senator stabenow, why 20 weeks? >> thats the longest weve ever extended it. there are different tiers in unemployment. the first tier extends for 20 weeks and goes on up. this would be an additional 20 weeks. it would parallel what weve done before into the rumor out there is some people have men...

Perspective. lets do away with and forget about rules and procedure that they have to deal with up in congress, and lets just take it on its face. the republicans and democrats have a bill before them that would extend health benefits, as we just heard there, to those that ran towards the world trade center on 9/11. if they cannot agree to pass a bill like that, what in the world can they agree on? >> its a really good question. the irony is that they do agree on this. there are 115 cosponsors t...

Security risks. senator jeff america murkily wa end what he calls the u.s. addiction to foreign oil. call it a lofty goal but he believes u.s. families, companies, and consumers can cut oil consumption by 8 million barrels per day ending entirely u.s. dependence on imported oil by the year 2030. >> were spending a billion dollars a day overseas. that means a lot of money that goes out of our economy doesnt create jobs here. it also means we are continually looking for ways to make sure we preser...