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Cant vote on that. you actually have to go down and hold the floor and talk and talk and talk and talk all night and for days and for weeks. you need to work for it. there is merit to this idea. it would make filibusters harder on the minority. it would make them more transparent to the public. it would make them less likely on popular bills, but it wouldnt reverse the transformation of the senate into a place where 60 votes required to get anything done. so there is a proposal that personally i...

Thats how we got the tax, right, that the cigarettes are at now in the state. this time around, even fewer californians are smoking. and when they first started polling on this subject this year, when they first started polling on the i hate cancer bill, people if california loved it even more than they loved the idea back in 1998. the idea of a new $1 a pack cigarette tax was winning by more than a two to one margin in the state. 67% of people in california saying they were in favor of this new...

Deaths of pakistan soldiers, u.s. forces made a cross-border attack in pakistan. officials say american soldiers only responded after pakistani soldiers fired first after using information given to them by pakistan. new today, house budget committee chairman paul ryan defending his budgets plan thats drawn severe criticism from democrats. >> we think we owe the country solutions. we think we owe the country a path to prosperity to get the american idea back, get people back to work and get thi...

Well, our teleprompter went dead. >> ah it is one of those inventions so influential we no longer even notice its existence unless, of course, something goes wrong, im talking about the teleprompter and we are talking about it today because the inventor, hubert j. hub shaffly, jr., passed away. he came up with the idea back in the 50s to help soap opera stars remember their lines but the biggest impact ended up being on news programs like this one, and also in the political arena. case in point....

Political paralysis. right now weve got a government, the president and congress who dont believe in reducing government they want to grow it as fast and far as possible in different aspects of our economy and lives and thats what we are fighting now. ill trying to say theres a better way to go. it is not too late to get the american idea back. prosperous society. live in a government where we propose entrepreneurial leadership and we dont have more takers versus makers in america. >> greta: har...

Wall street his aides are taking the business backlash seriously. here with me now to discuss this, thomas donahue, president of chamber of commerce. >> pleased to be here. >> take a listen to the criticism of business. >> step by step, a lot of coverage at a lot of times. but the country is making the steps necessary for its long term competitiveness and long-term growth and maintains the growth as a number one economy in the world. >> what is your criticism? is this administration being anti-b...

Average tea party member is 22% smarter regarding stuff like that than members of congress. just a moment ago, dolly parton when we were looking at elena kagan testifying up on capitol hill yesterday, you said oh, its like being called to the principals office. >> it is. wouldnt you hate to be on the hot seat like that? she said something about her hair, i could loan her some of mine. im not using right now. >> shes looking for a job for life. youve had a job for life being dolly parton. >> i ha...

Liberal and was not allowed to speak out. and she seems to say, well, theres not much -- thats much ado about nothing. >> i dont think that she is any more closet liberal than her mother-in-law, barbara bush, who had different opinions about choice and other womens issue than the republican establishment. >> she takes up for her husband, too, in the iraq war a little bit, saying he didnt want this war brought to his door by saddam hussein. wouldnt expect anything less, i guess. >> no, no, doesnt...

President has been any kind of legislative victory, certainly signed a tremendous number of executive orders, 25, higher than any president since lyndon johnson, and he is on track to set a post-world war ii cots to get a vote on obamacare repeal and replace if he can this week. in fact, we could have the language of a new amendment from the moderate tuesday group, more conservative house freedom caucus later today, then its possible between wednesday and saturday that they will be a vote. hes a...

>> i think your gaze is too low, raise it to the horizon. >> this isnt my gaze, but your party. >> weve been too timid on policy. weve been too timid on vision. we have none. this is what i think we can unify over which is so people understand why we make decisions on a day-to-day basis, they dont understand where were going. we have to show people where were going and what horizon were shooting for. what are our ideas and apply them to the problems of the day to get solutions for working famili...