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The congressional research service said after the rule was suspended it surged from 1.9 million to 3.9 million. thats what house republicans are trying to avoid on a largeer scale. about an hour ago we received the results of a rare vote in congress, formal motion to disapprove the recent moves by the obama administration to offer more waivers. this time, in the welfare program. chief washington correspondent jim angle has the latest. >> reporter: after impassioned debate house voted to disappro...

The presidents taking the work requirement out. the administration says thats false. coming up, well ask the man formerly in charge of running new york states welfare program to separate fact from fiction. stay with us.

Happening saturday, so that was great news. megyn: i want our viewers to know that the american center for law and justice, your group, is specifically dedicated to the ideal that religious freedom and freedom of speech are inalienable, god-given rights, and you stood up for those principles here successfully, jay. good for you. >> thanks. thank you for following this, megyn. it really made a difference. megyn: follow me on twitter, let me know what you think @megyn kelly. well, controversy gr...

Obviously a frustration with the current administration, but also the fact that the wheels could be in motion for hillary clinton. i do strongly believe that she is setting herself up in many ways for a run in 2016 and that would certainly give the republicans a run for their money. key points noted in the article said that president clinton while he is doing quite a bit out front to help the obama campaign hes sort of going through the motions which is what you have to do. when we know in the p...

That. the concept of more flexibility to governors is a good thing, but i think there should be performance metrics. we should be held accountable for performance but flexibility on how to do it. at the same time, i think its important that welfare is not intended to be a perpetual state. and the idea of having a work requirement or having providing the opportunity to work is critically important. thats one thing we did in michigan. i created community ventures program for the structurally unemp...

Who is the most significant use of the welfare system, who is the greatest participant in our welfare program in this country, its whites, not african-americans. one of the things -- >> we know that, but thats not the perception people have. we know that. >> thats a great comfort, thats a great comfort to say that, we know that, but the rest of the country doesnt. well, the fact of the matter is, lets educate the country as opposed to just throwing that out there and having to jump to black when...

Authority under section 402 of the welfare reform law to try to modify the provisions in section 407 describe how long you can be on welfare, what the definition of work is and how you can exit the welfare program. all of which the congress, democrat and republican, put in the statute and said nothing in section 407 is waiveable. yet the president used authority under another section to try to change a section of the law nobody can wave. waive. president made it clear in the letter the departmen...

This -- tax code. >> they paid n it is the law. you pay in porportionately what you earn. >> i said it was a the law. >> you also shouldnt get a millionaire car insurance if you are an accident change the law if you dont like the law. i agree with you. >> it is there to protect against the financial disaster. you pay insurance on your house you are not rooting to burn it down. if you dont need it, you dont need it >> if your house burns out you get the millionaire. >> you are not rooting for it ...

And mark hannah, an aide to john kerry and barack obamas presidential campaigns. this is getting more and more attention. mitt romney does not seem to be willing to abandon this line of attack. even though politifact has give up it a pants on fire and at "washington post" has give up it four pinocchios saying obama is not trying to strip the welfare requirement out of the welfare program. >> more of the attack on the ads is not on substance but on the presidents image. that his image is on the s...

For you. the romney/ryan plan protects medicare benefits for todays seniors and strengthens the plan for the next generation. >> im mitt romney, and i approve this message. >> lawrence, does the counterpunch work there? >> it works if you know nothing beyond the content of the ad which is what all ads are designed for, the voter who knows absolutely nothing. when is the last time you ran into a voter who said, hey, i made up my mind, i saw this ad -- theres actually very, very few of them and so...