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To be easy but it isn't. >> gun legislation, immigration as well. as i started the segment here today, representative nadler, the question was, with that relatively quick bipartisan budget deal, how much did that increase your hopefulness for what might happen in this final second half of the 113th? >> i am pessimistic. >> it went down? >> no. it didn't go down, but it didn't go up very much. that was a very minor deal. it was -- the republicans had been severely wounded politically by the shutdown. they didn't want to do that again. so we have a very minor deal which doesn't really deal with ...

It's their temperament, their whole approach to try and get something done but also to build a relationship. that's what this is all about up here. they've done that. i know there's a lot of people complaining. you're not going to find a perfect piece of legislation up here. but moving in the right direction in an orderly process, they've accomplished that. i think it's something that we should move forward and try to improve upon. >> 51% of those polled in our latest nbc news "wall street journal" poll last week said that this is one of the worst congresses ever. do you agree with that assess...

Fewest since the days of the first bush administration more than 20 years ago. it's not just the number of laws that aren't getting passed. the problem is the big things aren't getting done. with the house done for the year, congress has failed to pass a farm bill or immigration reform, just to name two big things. we should note the 113th did accomplish one of the most significant changes in decades when it comes to how the senate does business. that was when harry reid used the nuclear option to change the fill buster rules. by doing so he may have also been ushering in an era of even more g...

A real working urban-rural coalition. the average city fellow up to now has automatically voted against every farm bill." so the question is, how do we go from using food stamps as leverage to add votes to the farm bill to a place where everyone, republicans and democrats, want to cut food assistance to the poor? so congresswoman, i love this story, in part because we tend to think of things like earmarks or log rolling or favors as bad government policy. but, in fact, the farm bill is emblematic of how sometimes you've got to put things together in order to get things passed. is something lik...

Threaten the full faith and credit of the united states of america. >> in the spotlight tonight is the 113th congress is absolute worst congress ever? but if republican opinion is to be the judge, the 113th may have already garnered the worst congress distinction. approval rating is at an all time low. only 10% of americans aprove of the way that congress is handling its job. 87% disapprove. joining me now congressional scholars. they are also co-authors of the great must read. it's. i am sorry that it is worse than it initially worked. and i want to start with you. you write in the book the r...