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Could be anything. this committee could go off in all sorts of directions. so actually i think wisniewski and wineburg are sensitive to that. theyre saying, look, were focused for now on those lane closures. were going to stick to that. if something else comes up in the course of what we get, we may. right now i do not sense an eagerness to go after the hoboken matter or anything else. but the important point here is, alex, the clock is ticking. those subpoenas had a february 3rd return date. th...

>> again another one. first republicans complained they are filibustering because the extensions have not been paid for. >> weve been on the bill a week. a week. no amendments have been allowed. it is pretty clear that the majority leader is not interested in having an open amendment process. this has obviously been fixed to guarantee that you get a no outcome. >> joining me now from washington is bernie sanders. thank you so much for joining us on this day. it is shocking to me that republicans...

Millionaire republican politicians even care about the unemployed? text a for yes. text b for no. you can go to our blog. well bring you the results later on in the show. we have trouble in the senate. it looked pretty good earlier in the week, but now it doesnt. senator, good to have you with us tonight. >> good to be with you. >> you bet. everything was looking good early on this week. what happened? >> i think theres an enormous amount of politics involved here. when bush was president, repub...

Responsive politics finds that more than half of congress has a net worth of over $1 million. house oversight chairman darryl i issa, the richest member of congress, valued at $464 million. yesterday, majority leader harry reid offered up a bill that would extend jobless benefits through november of this year. he said he would not allow amendments to be made to the bill. he expressed frustration tore current negotiations on how to pay for the extensions saying, i have been waiting here for mor...

Rate is higher than the national average. and so they are dealing with a situation in those states where they have unemployment rates that are high. and two, you have a situation where republicans have a divergence of views about this. and some of them believe they need to move forward. and some believe they want to go forward and see if they can make the bill better. and in other words foip a way to get the extensions paid for. 6.4 billiop dollars and fund cuts other places. that is what may ha...

Pay for it. we cant do that any more. >> in the house and senate voted for these extensions of war payments without looking for payment -- im just hearing that. >> republicans? >> im sorry, i got you. i didnt hear you. >> it makes me sad. >> oh, stop, joe. jeremy peters, what is going to happen on the hill? >> i dont think anything should surprise any of us at this point. the expectation is that the unemployment extension will go down in a republican filibuster. it still might get the republic...

Families, its bad for the economy when you lose their purchasing power. it costs us jobs. this should be a common sense bipartisan thing. 14 out of the last 17 extensions, andrea, were not paid for. most of those were done on a bipartisan basis. its been treated as an emergency in the past. thats what we should be doing now. >> the long-term unemployed are in fact the people at most at risk because as they get longer and longer into the situation it becomes harder and harder for them to get a jo...

When they ultimately did agree to have offsets for unemployment insurance. by doing that, set a precedent that republicans can point to that moderate democrats maybe agree with republicans can point to. it makes the position much more difficult in any kind of negotiations between the house and the senate. and i think the other thing is that republicans used to sort of go along with the unemployment insurance extensions. >> right. >> because of the fear it would hurt them politically. what they f...

Over five years ago. my goodness, its been renewed more than ten times. these extensions, bob, were meant to be temporary. but some people have been collecting checks now for the better part of two years. at what point did the government say, hey, enough. >> there are two things here. unemployment rate is at a five-year low. however, long-term unemployment is still sky high. so you have these two competing factors, and what rand paul today said, i think a significant shift from what he told chri...

Their issue is they have to pay it. $6 billion over three months. do you cut off saturday mail delivery? do you get savings in the fund? this could run into real trouble in the house. >> you guys, quickly, after this year, the emergency program is over, isnt it? >> my sense is maybe we will get one or two more extensions. a year from today, with unemployment close to 6%, there will not be more emergency jobless aid. >> i agree with greg. >> thank you so much, gentlemen. i think we can safely ass...