See the results next year. my sense is that, look, house republicans passed a large number of very constructive, positive bills have to do with reining in government spending, reforming government, encouraging growth of jobs in the private economy, reducing unnecessary regulation. many passed on big votes with lots of democrats voting for them. all of them went to die in the u.s. senate. the key test for the republicans is going be next year in a new congress is the house going to pass similar measures? will they be taken up by the senate? will they be considered and passed, sent to the president for his signature or his veto. that will be real test. in this bill last night, one of the reince why democrats were opposed to it, had too little spending, had necessary reforms of dodd-frank, cut money for irs. cut money for pet programs of the white house. they voted against it 72% of the them voted against it because they didn t conform to what they wanted to have.
And now a federal judge has struck down one of his pet programs. drug testing poor people. in 2011, scott signed the law to drug test all welfare applicants in florida. and this is how the governor explained his reasoning. studies show people on welfare are higher users of drugs than people not on welfare. studies show that people on welfare are using drugs much higher than the population. i don t know which studies governor scott s referring to, but his math just doesn t add up. in florida only 2% of welfare applicants failed rick scott s drug test. 2%. but nationwide, the percentage of americans who use illegal drugs is nearly 9%. scott also claimed his program would save money. but florida lost money when it
correct. so when we start ascribing blame, i find it quite interesting that a lot of people want to say it s all the republicans, but the fact of the matter is, it was the president and his group who were quite willing to allow the country to go off the cliff in order to protect their pet programs. sure. it s interesting, just a couple of minutes ago we were talking a little bit about racism. it does seem like the opposing side to you plays the race card an awful lot. yesterday we played robert redford, the day before we had a sound bite from charlie rangel comparing conservatives to confederates. here is chris matthews once again playing the race card yesterday. they had this weird way they referred to, we the american people. why does a group of people that always loses elections, or tends to do lately, why do they call themselves the american people because do they still count blacks as three fifths of a vote? like we re more american than the rest, so we should get a
huge health risk for the animals. sometimes a few minutes on the daily walk doesn t help. people are investing in pet programs to get fido into shape. reporter: four little legs treading through watersheding pounds. lowell la here leading the charge at the morris animal inn. a kind of weight loss spa for pets. here right behind us we have a fitness pool for dogs. yes, exactly. reporter: here pups run on treadmills, jump hurdles, even perform aerobic swims because just like us, our furry friends are battling the bulge, and online fat cats trying anything to slim down. 52% of dogs and 58% of cats are now obese. come on. reporter: lowell la is supposed to be ten pounds but she weighed nearly three times that. her owner says it s hard to say
Of the school year for testing that is not scientifically applicable, it hurts our kids. when you spend millions of pet programs but no money for school repairs so the roof leaks on my sturnts, that hurts the kids. here is a parent from chicago making the case that this money the being redistributed away fwr the public schools into a pet project. he speaks about how unfair it is. his maim is matt farmer. he was delivering this speech at a board at a ctu rally back on may 30th. your kids attended the university of chicago laboratory schools, correct? yes. same school mayor rahm emanuel chose to send his kids to, correct? the university of chicago laboratory school has seven, count them, seven art teachers