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>> dont look for much from congress in the three months from the election. republican leaders in the chamber are wary of igniting internal party fights or invoking voters. the house passed more than 30 bills the senate has not touched. delays in raising the federal debt limit cost you $1.3 billion last year. a report from the government accountability office says that is because the spread between government debt and private securities narrowed. a group of 76 house republicans is challengi...

But they have a 200-page rule book and the steps go on and on and... this is why-- those are all the steps? >> reporter: and the appeals and this is why the private sector does everything better because have you to improve. union work rules are what kills entrepreneurship. >> sean: if you go back to president reagan in office and there was this historical study, landmark study, a nation at risk -- that study concluded what has happened to the educational system in america, it were done by an o...

But they have a 200-page rule book and the steps go on and on and... this is why-- those are all the steps? >> reporter: and the appeals and this is why the private sector does everything better because have you to improve. union work rules are what kills entrepreneurship. >> sean: if you go back to president reagan in office and there was this historical study, landmark study, a nation at risk -- that study concluded what has happened to the educational system in america, it were done by an o...

But they have a 200-page rule book and the steps go on and on and... this is why-- those are all the steps? >> reporter: and the appeals and this is why the private sector does everything better because have you to improve. union work rules are what kills entrepreneurship. >> sean: if you go back to president reagan in office and there was this historical study, landmark study, a nation at risk -- that study concluded what has happened to the educational system in america, it were done by an o...

Destroy god jobs for everyone they created. they dont create stuff out of nothing. they take the money from somewhere else and that money might have created a job. i can create a job for a computer repair by smashing your computer but that is a job. it doesnt count the fact that money might have gone somewhere else which might have created three jobs. >>neil: what did you make of wisconsin? >>guest: well, im happy that the unions didnt win. the unions say they create jobs. they kill jobs. their ...

the white house standing by the men who took a pledge to take a bullet for the president. this morning new details in the secret service prostitution scandal, agents being offered a lie detector test now. she got a ride home from the bar and hasnt been heard from since. the family of a ft. bragg soldier saying she may be in danger this morning. >> shes loved by all of her friends and family, and we all just really want her to come home. >> cnn spoke to her mother and her sister. well...

Heather: back to basics, thats the one number -- number one issue. i would add my sister is a teacher so i would say more support for the teachers across the country as well. >> they need more freedom from the work rules, too, they need to be able to do their best and they cant do it now. heather: thank you very much for joining us, we appreciate it. gregg: north koreas controversial rocket launch ends in an embarrassing failure for the regime. so what can we expect now from the leaders in pyong...

An awful lot of time on diversity, those are good things, but if you -- you have to get the basics right first. heather: so get back to the basics. union work rules are affecting our education. >> our education system is bu -- burratized. the unions make it impossible to update schools and provide the framework in which people can do their best. things are so bad now, only 26 percent of high school seniors are proficient in math and only 21 percent in science. heather: so what about grade inflat...

>> what about ralph giganti related to jimmy the chin. >> is that the guy walking around in his bathrobe? >> yeah, thats the one, trying to prove hes crazy. and you got joseph cologna. look at him! also over $400,000 a year. the son-in-law of the chin. >> thats why everything is so expensive there. this is money that is allocated to the port authority. >> the reason this is going this way is because under their union work rules, if you are a checker or a timekeeper, those are the people who keep...

For example, the language about teachers. on the one hand, many of us have wanted to see comprehensive change. but at the moment it feels like so much of the conversation about comprehensive change is falling on teachers and the solution seems to be break the unions. if you break teachers unions somehow that will improve education, as though what is good for teachers is not whats good for students. >> well, i do think that the union work rules are an impediment to great teaching and learning, bu...