to vary widely. major travel delays and widespread cancelations are likely. really just depends on the track of the storm. newest model data does indicate the storm will be hugging closer and closer to the coast. that means a heavy, wet snow. not the powder we had last time. blown concrete, the warning from nbc washington bureau s weather blown concrete? sorry. sounds terrible. but glass half full here, a by-product of this gigantic winter storm is we as a nation are not going to default on our national debt. and send the entire global economy into a free fall. that s a nice side effect of the storm. the house of representatives decided to vote tonight just a couple hours ago to raise the nation s debt ceiling with no strings attached. they re not raising the debt ceiling but only if democrats agree to repeal obamacare, they re not raising the debt ceiling but only if president obama approves the keystone pipeline.
piecemeal, we can t pass it after barack obama is no longer president. i mean, on every other issue now, the republicans are waling about it but in the end shooting down the conservatives who are tell them to say no to everything. they re defying the conservatives on all these other issues. why not on this issue? why are the conservatives winning and the republicans still saying no on this one issue? joining us now, john stanton, washington bureau chief at buzzfeed. thanks for being here. nice to have you here. good to be here. first i have to ask you about this vote tonight. why do you think speaker boehner brought up the debt limit, clean, no strings attached tonight for a vote? i think he looked at it and said there s no political downside for him in the house. most of the members arguing against him, his the majority of his members look at those people and they say, you don t have any power anymore. after what happened with the government shutdown, there s no good reason fo
about it but in the end shooting down the conservatives who are tell them to say no to everything. they re defying the conservatives on all these other issues. why not on this issue? why are the conservatives winning and the republicans still saying no on this one issue? joining us now, john stanton, washington bureau chief at buzzfeed. thanks for being here. nice to have you here. good to be here. first i have to ask you about this vote tonight. why do you think speaker boehner brought up the debt limit, clean, no strings attached tonight for a vote? i thchiink he looked at it a said there s no political downside for him in the house. most of the members arguing against him, his the majority of his members look at those people and they say, you don t have any power anymore. after what happened with the government shutdown, there s no good reason for us to follow you sort of back into the abyss. so we re just not going to. boehner looks at this and says, assuming he s around ne
on d.c. right now might be even bigger than that. a high-impact event. it s going to start out as snow for everybody. obviously the amounts are going to vary widely. major travel delays and widespread cancelations are likely. really just depends on the track of the storm. newest model data does indicate the storm will be hugging closer and closer to the coast. that means a heavy, wet snow. not the powder we had last time. blown concrete, the warning from nbc washington bureau s weather blown concrete? sorry. sounds terrible. but glass half full here, a by-product of this gigantic winter storm is we as a nation are not going to default on our national debt. and send the entire global economy into a free fall. that s a nice side effect of the storm. the house of representatives decided to vote tonight just a couple hours ago to raise the nation s debt ceiling with no strings attached. they re not raising the debt ceiling but only if democrats agree to repeal obamacare, they re not
to texas, i spend time traveling the state listening to texans and we ve done small business roundcle tables throughout the state. if you get 10, 15, 20 small business owners in a room, doesn t matter what part of the state you re in, east texas, west texas, up in the pan handle or down in the rio grande valley they describe obama care as the biggest job killer they re facing, biggest burden they re facing and millions have lost their jobs, forced into part-time work or lost their health insurance. i know you support building the keystone pipeline. do you think president obama should open it up make the crucial decision before the mid term elections. of course he should. we just had recently his former energy secretary who admitted the delay on keystone has nothing to do with the science. it s purely a political decision. and just this week, i laid out the outlines for a broad energy agenda for a bill that i intend to introduce, the american energy renaissance act, which