draws the maps. the issue here is after the legislature drew its map, another court substituted a map and almost kind of redid it from the beginning. all these decisions going to come out in the same week in june? it s going to be wild, isn t it? pete williams, what a year it s going to be. thanks very much. let s move to the other branch of government. house republicans are taking their version of a payroll tax extension to the floor today. and while the house speaker predicts the bill will pass, republicans have included a provision deal with the keystone oil sands pipeline. a provision the president warned republicans he ll reject. still, the speaker isn t backing down. if the american people want jobs, this is as close to a shovel ready project as you re ever going to see. this is exactly the description of the kind of jobs plans that the president says he wants to enact. kelly o donnell, nbc s capitol hill correspondent. kelly, i know you ve had similar conversations proba
generations with that debt. the super committee, maybe they will come up with $1.2 trillion in cuts but they aren t dealing with baseline budget. even the fed said the chance of a new recession tops 50 percent. what is the answer? how do we get congress really to adopt bold responsible programs instead of basically playing the old washington insider game and just punching around the edges here? there are two fundamental things. number one we have to win an election. people that believe in limited government and believe government should be making it easier, not harder to create jobs in america, we need more people like that elected in 2012. but that election is not until november of next year and people are hurting right now. in the interim i think we need to do the best we can without doing any further marm the way the administration would have us do through some of their ideas. what i have basically done, i have sat down with a democrat, with senator coons of delaware and i have id
generations with that debt. the super committee, maybe they will come up with $1.2 trillion in cuts but they aren t dealing with baseline budget. even the fed said the chance of a new recession tops 50 percent. what is the answer? how do we get congress really to adopt bold responsible programs instead of basically playing the old washington insider game and just punching around the edges here? there are two fundamental things. number one we have to win an election. people that believe in limited government and believe government should be making it easier, not harder to create jobs in america, we need more people like that elected in 2012. but that election is not until november of next year and people are hurting right now. in the interim i think we need to do the best we can without doing any further marm the way the administration would have us do through some of their ideas. what i have basically done, i have sat down with a democrat, with senator coons of delaware and i have id
president obama has hit a rough patch recently. theç president and i have a pretty good relationship. it has been a little frosty the last few weeks. but we ve got a pretty good relationship. in his interview he complained the president is engaged in what he calls class warfare by pushing higher taxes for wealthier americans. despite that he says he and the president have found some common ground. one of theç biggest riffs between president obama and republicans like boehner is their dualing jobs plans. october numbers for jobs make a small move into the right direction. brenda buttner is here to look at the data. when it comes to the biggie of all economic reports the monthly unemployment one the headlines focus on the rate which did fall in october. aç 10th percent to 9%. remember the unemployment rate has been at 9% or higher for the past seven months. still, the economy added
hampshire, talking about those jobs plans that i talked about. this really seems to me to be an inside the beltway debate, when the debate really needs to be focused on how do the candidates create jobs, how do the economic plans stack up, how does your 20 percent flat tax stack up against perform romney keeping the existing tax rates in place or herman cain adding a new source of revenue. bill: you have points from your perspective in texas but the headline will be when the next debate comes around, where is rick perry. i wonder, when he started out, joining the race, at 32 percent, if you put the polls together, he s down to 12 percent, our own fox polling has him dropping even further at right around 10 percent on the bottom of your screen, previously in september, he was at 19 percent. is that why? bill, he is going to be at the next debate, there are a lot of debates planned, and what we plan on doing to get back to the top of the field is to talk