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It. is that in the senate version right now? >> the house version has come over to the senate. we are unable to put a senate version on the floor because mitch mcconnell has blocked -- basically the fancy term is amendment tree. he is blocking any proposal from democrats to be put on the table, any bipartisan agreement from ds and rs. >> why? he is saying it is you guys. he calls it the schumer shutdown. >> this is all politics. essentially for three and a half months while we have been demanding we address these core issues, he's been obsessed, mitch mcconnell and the republicans have been ob...

Clear. because that means -- talking about russia again next week, you should do whatever you can do that's going to prevent and that's going to provoke the president to be helpful in starting this bill. the democratic obstruction may -- for all republicans to say, maybe this is the best we can do and this is probably what we need to lay a benchmark and go ahead. there is no way mcconnell will allow voters. there is going to be a deal or not a deal beforehand. he's going to decide what amounts or whatever. >> the amendment tree. >> filling the tree and all this horrible legislative mambo and j...

Interest loan so they can relocate to an area where there was a lower or i should say ahigher unemployment rate than where they are today. one of the problems they have is that people can't move, that's a barrier to get to places where there might be more jobs available. we're talking about practical things that actually address the problem rather than just continuing to deal with the symptom of this and i think making it less expensive for employers to hire people who have been unemployed for a very long time -- allows any republican amendments to be offered or voted on. >> i can't see that h...

Steaks sequestration off the table which would have done draconian things to our military. and moves the economy forward, moves the government forward in a way where there's more certainty. to get back to senator wicker's point. it's true, the amendment tree's full. if we bring another amendment in, the house is gone. they won't be back for 25 days. it's not like it's going to be taken up again, it's not. you said it's better to do something that might not be perfect than do nothing at all. i agree. >> but it seems like you democrats caved on that issue, that issue that was supposed to be incr...

Political gain, it makes sense to reform this. as joy said, the talking filibuster is part of the tradition. how is that the -- >> part of the tradition of blocking civil rights legislation, right? it's not like -- it was a fairly effective method of blocking all sorts of legislation. >> that's true. >> i mean, at the same time, look, the republicans what they wanted most and they have claimed that the reason they filibuster everything is that harry reid hasn't allowed them to offer amendments. to your point about filling the amendment tree. they got what they wanted most. now harry reid will ...