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All-time record for the size of the ratio between what we pay these guys and what they do. its kind of easy to see what happened. i mean, if you spend all of your time and all of your effort saying youre going to repeal obama care, which is not actually going to happen, then that takes up time in which you could be actually legislating. it takes up time where you could actually be making policy. and so, we spent all our time fake repealing obama care and we dont have a national defense authoriza...

Record, since the history of our country, about to set a new all-time record for the size of the ratio between what we pay these guys and what they do. its kind of easy to see what happened. i mean, if you spend all of your time and all of your effort saying youre going to repeal obama care, which is not actually going to happen, then that takes up time in which you could be actually legislating. it takes up time where you could actually be making policy. and so, we spent all our time fake repea...

And they say, this -- because, frankly, they hate the government. and they lose sight of the goal, which is not to have people starving on the streets of america. and instead, they just hate the government so much, that they wont let it do what it needs to do. >> and reverend, in reference, saying the -- the congressman from florida, mr. 10therland, who got up on the floor, he used his faith as a battlecry to justify a vote of denial and take-away. i mean, how scurrilous is this? >> its absolute...

To the government shutdown idea. you got the 41st vote in the house on repealing obamacare. 41 times they kals tcast the vo now. never had practical effect and never will. if it wasnt fun enough, 40 times, maybe 41 will beat charm. congressman john dingell take it from here. >> here we go again. time of the house is being wasted. the bizness of tusiness of the . the republicans have more nonsense to put on the floor. >> tah-dah. the house goes through the process of remembering what it is it wan...

Times, maybe 41 will be the charm. congressman john dingell take it from here. >> here we go again. time of the house is being wasted. the business of the nation. the republicans have more nonsense to put on the floor. >> tah-dah. the house goes through the process of remembering what it is it wants to waste time on, remembering what symbolic action it wants to take instead of making policy. congress does have kind of a significant to do list of substantive stuff that for some reason they feel n...

Also got the 41st vote in the house on repealing obama care. 41 times they cast the votes now. never had practical effect and never will. if it wasnt fun enough, 40 times, maybe 41 will be the charm. congressman john dingell take it from here. >> here we go again. time of the house is being wasted. the business of the nation. is being obfuscated. the republicans have more nonsense to put on the floor. >> tah-dah. while the house goes through this process of remembering what it is it wants to was...

People who are making policy, there are more and more women in there. not enough, but more. >> and on the gun issue, is there something about being a mother that made a story, i think it was overnight in texas, and there was, i think it was like a 3-year-old who was shot by a 5-year-old, something like that. we had a number of stories like this. in fact, i think we have a graph. this is just since newtown. these are shootings that have been documented of kids. this is just since last december an...

Administration. >> one question that ive been looking at frankly is there are no assistant secretaries of state. ambassadors from all over the world are asking me, whom do we deal with. who is making policy. and when you ask both the state department and the white house about this, they say well the confirmation process is so bad. that we have to vet these people over and over again. and penny pritzgers case, she might have been nominated before, but she had so many holdings, she might have had ...

But, you know, tom ridge no longer holds elected office. he no longer makes policy on marriage, gay or otherwise. and when he did, when he was governor of pennsylvania, tom ridge signed into law that states own ban on same-sex marriage. what he did in office is one thing. what kruer doing now that youre freed from office is the new thing. what is actually happening in the party right now? are the politics on social issues changing for the whole party, or are they only changing among the retired ...

Marriage, gay or otherwise. and when he did, when he was governor of pennsylvania, tom ridge signed into law that states own ban on same-sex marriage. what he did in office is one thing. what youre doing now that youre freed from office is the new thing. what is actually happening in the party right now? are the politics on social issues changing for the whole party, or are they only changing among the retired class? the republicans who are no longer making policy. where are all the elected? joi...