are pressuring them to do? when groups come out and criticize an agreement that they have never seen, you begin to wonder just how credible those actions are. i thought it was my job and my obligation to stand up for conservatives here in the congress who want more deficit reduction. stand up for the work that chairman ryan did. reporter: mike needham runs heritage action, one of the groups boehner is lashing out at. john boehner said groups like yours have completely lost credibility. look, i don t think it s for anybody in washington to decide who has credibility. it s certainly very frustrating that an honest disagreement about a bill that was or deal that was struck has devolved into name calling from the speaker. reporter: boehner made clear this is about more than the budget. it s been brewing for awhile. they pushed us into this fight to defund obama care and the shutdown of government. if you recall, the day before the government reopened, one of the people, one of th
mentally ill. one way to do that is expanding background checks to gun shows and the internet. i think he agrees with that. that s what that piece of legislation did in april, that failed on april 17th i believe it was, the manchin/toomey compromise bill that expanded background checks. with regard to enforcement, those are two separate things. we know that since 1999, there have been about two million criminals that have been prevented from buying a gun because they failed a background check. now, yeah, we didn t enforce as in we didn t prosecute all of those people for that crime they committed but they were prevented from getting a gun. how many of them went down to the gun show or to an internet or got a firearm from some other person, we really have no idea. that s why we should have pretty much a universal background check system with some exceptions. since the law passed in colorado recently, we have stopped 74
technology works. reporter: thursday, the department of transportation said it would consider possibly banning the in-flight calls, the us dot s role is determine if allowing these calls is fair for consumers anthony fox said in a statement. in congress a new senate bill also aims to ban the calls. it joins republican bill schuster s house proposal. these airplanes are confined, noisy already. to have dozens of phone calls going on while in flight i think is annoying to the travels public and i think it s unnecessary. reporter: but on air, which provides cell service on planes around the world said passengers haven t complained. most users text, and the 3 to $4 a minute cost keeps calls short. all right. well, either way this is a long process. it will be months before the fcc could actually lift its ban, and it would be months before the faa to vote to impose a ban.
today s vote also means some jobless workers lose help and military pensions get trimmed. there are some missed opportunities. is congress doing the will of the voters or ignoring them? are you kidding me? on the left stephanie cutter. on the right s.e.cupp. in the cross cross paul begala, and tim phillips, a conservative activist. are both parties ignoring their supporters? tonight on crossfire. welcome to crossfire. iismt s.e. cupp on the right irnls and i m stephanie cutter on the we have some breaking news. the house approved the deal keeping the government running and eliminating some of the most egregious automatic spending cuts. this is not a bill i would have written, but i think it s time
arkansas senator mark pryor has a tough re-election fight in 2014 and in his first tv ad he is running against president obama and new york mayor bloomberg and expanded background checks for gun sales. let s watch. the mayor of new york city is running ads against me because i oppose president obama s gun control legislation. nothing in the obama plan would have prevented tragedies like newtown, aurora, tucson, or even jonesboro. i m mark pryor. and i approve this message because no one from new york or washington tells me what to do. all politics is local. a poll out this week found a majority of arkansas voters actually support background checks and more voters there say they d be more likely to vote for senator pryor had he supported the manchin/toomey compromise. i am very suspicious of those polls.