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Republican minority started to road-block and delay the presidential nomination. the democrats began to see the beauty of the option. so tonight, order has been restored in the senate for the way things were for a couple of hundred years until the senate republicans decided to make the place pretty much dysfunctional. in that deal to avert the option, as in all bipartisan senate deals, each side got something. the president and the democrats get a clear route to a confirmation vote on six more nominees. the republicans consider controversial. the republicans forced the president to withdraw tw...

That the budget is not balanced on a collapsing middle class and on 46 million people who are living poverty and on many elderly people who are barely keeping their heads above water economically. look, ed, the position that you and i have talked about forever is the position that the vast majority of the american people support. they understand large corporations are seeing record breaking profits and yet, one out of four profitable corporations pays zero in taxes. losing $100 billion a year from these corporations and wealthy individuals offshoring their profits in the cayman islands and ber...

Senior organization, aflcio, every veteran's organization. you got the national organization of women saying do not go for a chain cpi, which will make devastating cuts, not just on seniors who are on social security, ed, let's not forget and i speak as chairman of the veterans committee disabled vets. do you want a cut benefits for disabled vets, men and women who have lost their legs in iraq, i don't think we do. >> do you think democrats will mount the charge and send a strong message and generate support across the country to stop this? >> well, i am going to do everything i can. we have a...

Every veteran's organization. you got the national organization of women saying do not go for a chain cpi, which will make devastating cuts, not just on seniors who are on social security, ed, let's not forget and i speak as chairman of the veterans committee disabled vets. do you want a cut benefits for disabled vets, men and women who have lost their legs in iraq, i don't think we do. >> do you think democrats will mount the charge and send a strong message and generate support across the country to stop this? >> well, i am going to do everything i can. we have a new petition up on our websi...

Hear so much about. we need agriculture labor, we need low-skill labor. and so if we want to see our economy grow we not only have to be more productive we have to have a larger work force. and our work force is not growing fast enough for us to have the kind of growth that we have you got. hundreds of thousands if not millions of jobs in america that are sitting here empty today, because there is nobody to do the jobs. some of those highly skilled, some of them not. >> governor rendell -- >> that is why this agreement, the agreement is so important, because we're not going to make this work e...