Both parties, we want to begin with your comments on Third Party Politics in america. Is the country ready for a thirdparty . What type of thirdparty would you support and would you vote for a thirdparty . Our phone lines lets begin with some of the headlines beginning with the l. A. Times. The front page story that is the story courtesy of the museum. Theres is this from the , good care,icle bad debts. Coming up in just a couple of minutes we are going to turn our attention to thirdParty Politics. We want to begin with news from our news acres best news anchors program. From our news anchors program. Inairs at 10 00 eastern time three hours. Just how far will congress go in investigating the Affordable Care act . Heres a portion from that interview. [video clip] , to should we expect preview what it will look like. Ofthere are a couple committees that have jurisdictions, it is not just us. They are not going to have cms, testify on tuesday. We have darrell issa, the government form committee. We are going to continue our oversight role. We have two subcommittees with jurisdiction. A lot of questions are raised relating to the security of the individuals information that they put into the system, they are changing the lines to try to make it work. There are a lot of issues that are out there. I dont know if we will do a hearing every week just on this. Theres is only so much time in the day. Did contractors have responsibility to warn cms that more testing was needed . That is a good question. Offeredsure they really remember they were under oath. So they were a little careful in terms of how they answer the question. Clearly there was a communication breakdown between the contractors and the administration in terms of where they were. One of my questions, and i didnt get a straight answer , was did you know it was not going to work . What is the answer . , we thought their little section of it worked but no one was in charge of the holes train. Whole strain. Newsmakers with fred upton, 10 00 eastern time here on cspan and on cspan radio, heard nationwide on xm channel 120. We want to hear from you on Third Party Politics. You can weigh in on social oura, send us a tweet, facebook pages facebook. Com c span, or you can send us an e mail at journal cspan. Org. Joining us is the editor in chief at the gallup organization. Thank you for being with us. Guest im right here. Host we talk about this every four years. If you look at the last 20 or 25 years, ross perot was the only credible thirdparty candidate that made any significant difference in terms of gathering votes. Some argue ralph nader did change the equation in 2000. Is the mood in the country different today . Guest it is different. We have periodically asked if you think the Republican Party is doing a good shot or if there is a thirdparty needed to the this year we are a slight margin higher since we have been asking this format. That leaves only a quarter who say the current parties are doing a adequate job. Did not ask this question in 1992, when ross perot ran. In the early it part of the last century when Teddy Roosevelt was running. Six in 10 americans say a third party would be welcome. Part of that reflects the fact that people are so down on congress at this point. People say on that, they want another alternative, they want another choice. We have had to Party Politics in this country for well over a century. It seems like there is a lot of talk but nothing really behind that in terms of a movement. Couple ofre are a points. The machinery is so entrenched now statebystate in how you get nominated in the primary system and how you run for office, all the way from the presidency down to more statewide offices. It is very difficult for somebody in the thirdparty to actually get involved to get through all that process. Second, it takes money. The aforementioned ross perot had one thing come a which is nice and politics, and that is money. He was a billionaire and was able to spend his own money. Look atwhy some people Michael Bloomberg of new york city. Whats he to decide to amount of thirdparty campaign, talking of presidency for the third part that for the most part, he would be more credible. If you win me were to run, that would be our biggest problem right off the bat. You and me were to run that would be our biggest problem right off the bat. 60 calling for a third party, and you have been doing polling for a long time. How significant is that number . Up and downunces when people are really happy with what is going on elsewhere. After 9 11 in the last decade, only 40 . I think it is significant. I will put it in the context of america general the satisfaction. General dissatisfaction. I think some of the reason now is we will see what happens. Certainly you have to have several things to have a third party challenge. To see if they are candidates in money. Waging a thirdparty candidacy, one of the Biggest Challenges on a National Level. Even if you want to run on a statewide level, and have to get on the ballot and there are 50 different states with 50 different sets of rules. Guest thats right. Being president is very difficult. Anybody who runs nationally has to have money. You have to spend a lot of time looking into the arcane requirements of every state on how you get on the ballot. That takes personnel and money right off the bat. It is a difficult process. Current system has many roadblocks in the way of those who would want to run a Third Party Candidate. I am in new jersey and i am looking at the gubernatorial ballot. There are all kinds of third party people listed on the ballot. Ly its easier to get on the ballot. There is a thirdparty libertarian candidate who is on the ballot but what the biggest problems he has faced is that he has not been out loud not been allowed to participate in the forums. It was one of the few times where the libertarian candidate was in attendance. To attend. Invited how does that generate another set of problems or any Third Party Candidate for any thirdparty candidate. Guest we ran into that last year. At the National Level the commission on president ial debates, which runs those debates, has set it up so they have a set of criteria that they use, you have to have a certain percent of the popular vote to be in the debates. Thirdparty candidates do not like that, they want to be on stage. That is a tradeoff. If you have a stage full of 10 people up there, the two people who are prineville who are highly probable to win, the voter would not be able to hear enough of what they have to say. That is a very difficult trade off for those who run the debates. Merit inhere is some the idea that you cannot let people show up on the state and show up on the state. The latest gallup poll on , storiesdable care act related to the trouble of the rollout of their website. The survey Shows Americans are having a slightly more favorable view of the Affordable Care act. Guest other polls have shown it the overallme attitude toward the Affordable Care act actually picked up in our Gallup Survey by a few points. Still by negative because half the country is disapproving. That negative margin on the aca is less. There was a reaction, maybe a pushback from what happened during the shutdown, that made it more popular. We are going to be measuring again this weekend and by the end of the coming week we will have a new number. Publiclusion is the still feels more negative than positive towards the aca. Paradoxically, not as much as they did prior to the shutdown. Host Frank Newport is the editorinchief of the gallup poll. Thank you for being with us on the sunday morning. Guest as always, my pleasure. Host we are going to ask our audience whether or not you support a thirdparty. Are you among those 60 in the gallup poll that says country needs a major thirdparty . There is this from one of our viewers don is joining us from polaski, tennessee. Good morning. Caller the suggestion i have is t you all should have starting at 7 00 eastern time, 7 00 p. M. Eastern time for a couple of hours. My suggestion on the third party, i would like to see i was a member of ibew for a while. I am a retired member now. I think a labour party would do real good. I guess that is all i would have to say. Host thank you for being such a loyal viewer and listener. Kevin from massachusetts on the republican line, good morning. Caller that less general and made a lot of sense, if a labour party came to power they would have the unions with all their money backing up the candidate. It seems in the past the Third Party Candidates do not seem to get the funding or the respect from the media they are kind of bypassed from the media. I think that is a great idea. Host would you support a labour party . Caller yes, i would. Host lets go to raymond joining us from river falls, wisconsin on the independent line. Caller good morning creed we have had third parties for a long time, it is just a well kept secret in the United States. Democracydebates go, now managed to hold a debate with candidates who werent democrats or republicans. It seemed to go off just fine. Host we cover that debate, too. Caller i think you for that. This media blackout of people who are not democrats or republicans is ridiculous and if you look is ridiculous. If you look at the number of eligible voters who actually , the man who sits in the white house has a tiny fraction. I supported barack obama the first time around and then he turned out to be just like everybody else. We need a different system. As far as im concerned, you can put them all under one party because they all actually they are in the same party, this little skirmish they are having now. I liken it to professional wessling professional wrestling. People pretending to hurt each other. Idea behindwhole this debt ceiling and the sequester and the Government Shutdown and all that. It is to take more money away from the public while not worrying about raising taxes on the well see thats raising taxes on the wealthy or adding a cap on Social Security. Raising taxes on the wealthy or adding cap on Social Security. A cover story host next up is the democrats line. Good morning. Obama wasen barack born, he was born in this world to be the president of the United States for you for eight years. Why they keep coming back with he lies, he does that. A third party would only bring together a bunch of people that are haters. Why dont they get him a boat, so back to where they came from, go back to their own country echo their own country . This country belongs to everybody. Whoave people in office will not do things they were elected to do. All it has been said it is all because of the man in the white house and i think that is just sick. He artie had the advantage that the Supreme Court gave the republicans already had the advantage that the Supreme Court gave the republicans. He is going to walk away, like sarah palin, with a whole backpack full of money. They are not going to do anything with this country. The thirdparty that these people are talking about would kill this country. And senatethe house are in session this week. The senate takes last week off. A couple of issues to keep in mind, the conference will be meeting on the budget negotiations led by senator patty murray for Washington State and the congressman paul ryan from wisconsin, chair of the house budget committee. Later we are going to be focusing on the farmville and one aspect of the farm bill is the food Stamp Program, or the snap program, the second a mental the supplemental nutritious assistance program. Millions of people are in for a shot at the end of the week when their food stamp benefits will be cut across the board. There is little chance that congress will act to avert the food stamp cliff. It will affect some 47 million beneficiaries, including children and the elderly. The cuts will take effect on friday and will bring an end to the funding increase the democrats wrapped into the 2009 stimulus. For a family of four, it will be 36 per month. Single adults will see their for ay benefits reduced cut of 11. On the cover of cq weekly jodi has this point the cover story of the national review, the Health Care Marketplace headline alan is joining us next from new york city on the democrats line. Caller thank you for your great program. I dont work for democrats anymore. I dont work for republicans, not democrats, not a third party. History shows us that our country is not based on they only have to choose between democrat or republican. They have no more options. For many years the American People have only worked for republicans or democrats. It is not true democracy. America needs a big change and it needs democracy. Think the results of the election set forth a conviction notnational community does trust us in the market democracy is in anymore. Democracy is not fair. Arethe American People forced to choose between democrat or independent or republican. Host thank you for the call. Johnnie has this point, there is a thirdparty, it is called local government. It is where single voters have the most impact. You can send us a tweet. We are monitoring your comments on our facebook page, facebook. Com cspan. This for michael next call is richard, calling from florida on the independent line. I agreegood morning, with one of your previous callers who said that a third party has a hard time getting finances to run their campaigns. Stressed thef they fact that the first thing we have to do in this country is ban lobbyists from bringing any money whatsoever to congress, that would have a big jump. That is the cause of our down slide, the money that is given to politicians for the reelections to pass the laws for their constituents and not for the good for the country. Next onn is joining us the democrats line tim is joining us next on the democrats line. Caller i was good to say to the people that want a thirdparty, i dont think therell ever be a majority of the population. Host why is that . It is swings way off to the right. Host for those that benefit m the two major parties those who benefit from two major parties mama like the competition from third parties. Kathy is up next. Caller i dont think we need a thirdparty. Ross perot was the third candidate running. We need to honor the constitution. What we did need to do is people we elect, the reason we elect them, they need to honor us photos us voters. We need to start getting politicians that dont want to serve themselves and what is good for them instead of what is good for the nation. We need to stop voting for our personal gain and our personal bills. Host alicia, thank you for the call. Another viewer says we are asking you about Third Party Politics based on the latest gallup poll. Frank newport said 60 of those surveyed is ready for a major thirdparty. Phone lines are open. Next is betty joining us from albuquerque, new mexico, democrats line. Caller good morning, steve. We are in such desperate need of a thirdparty. Naderusiness about ralph the ignorance is alive and well in america. Lame the Supreme Court. The supreme blame the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court intervened in that election. Had they not florida would have given the count to al gore and al gore would have been president. It was the Supreme Court that intervened. It had nothing to do with ralph nader. Enough,der, ironically has been rallying for third, fourth, and fifth parties for years. We should be behind that. The Democratic Party is not the Democratic Party that my family belonged to years ago. The Democratic Party used to represent the working class of america. No longer. The right has gone so far to the right that it is absolutely ridiculous. We need third parties, we need to stop these dynastic brings dynastic reigns. People like to see Elizabeth Warren of running for president , Bernie Sanders. If only we had 535 Bernie Sanders in congress. We need heard parties. We need to stop both parties from intervening to the president s election fund, which disallows people from sitting at the table such as candidates getting their views out. A progressive third, labour party, thank you very much. Host in case you missed it yesterday, i want to share with you a story that could have some longtime legal ramifications. This is the headline you can read more Details Online at and why times. Com. At nytimes. Com kathy says next call is joining us from , massachusetts. Good morning. Caller it seems like the democrats and republicans are ruining this country. Its like if you have one statement does not have the one state that does not have Social Security and medicaid, the other state does, which state is going to get the job c e is going to get the jobs . I dont understand what everybody is calling in and saying we need to prepare our friends bottom of thee hour. We are asking if you would support or vote for a third party. We have moved down the dial to xm channel 120 this week. In the Weekend Edition of the wall street journal she makes a comparison to the titanic and then has this point heres more with the president. [video clip] the easiest place to buy insurance is a new website. As you may have heard, the site is not working the way it is supposed to yet. It is frustrating for all of us that has