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Question. and that is, what effect is it actually going to have on congress for the president to be traveling around the country every couple of days getting big rounds of applause and big laugh lines and big headlines for mocking congress and teasing congress about how little they do? when the president travels around the country they don't do anything and the crowd goes they don't do anything what effect will they have on congress that that is what the president spends his time on now? there is the little house keeping matter that there is stuff that congress does have to do and that the pre...

1 one month from today unless congress acts every state in the country will see on average a 28% immediate cut in the transportation dollars they are getting to do their roads and bridges projects. there is more than 100,000 construction projects underway supported by federal transportation money right now. unless this -- this is a very short term problem. unless congress acts to pass a transportation bill now all of those projects are in jeopardy of basically being stopped mid stream. this is not some indefinite far off in the future. the funding is going to start being cut off a month from t...

You extend the date, they will extend the waiting period. so you've got to have a deadline and tell people, look. it's august 1 we will begin to accept claims. send in the claim. you'll have until december 31st to file that claim and we will stay working into 2015. >> how difficult is for you personally on an emotional basis pulling together a package like this? because you can't compensate with dollars for a life. >> i'm asked all the time what is the most difficult part what have we do? 9/11, especially 9/11 but bp too. one fund boston, the marathon. it's meeting one-on-one with families who...

Morning. he replaces eric cantor. mccarthy, a former dally owner, moves up to the number two spot on august 1. to replace mccarthy as whip, republicans elected steve scalise of louisiana. the big question this morning, how in this world did the premiere lab expose workers to live anthrax. this happened at the government-run cdc in atlanta. they apparently did not follow proper procedures. none of them have shown any symptoms yet. but symptoms can take up to two months to appear. inhaled anthrax can be deadly in 85% of cases if untreated. if treated, the fatality rate still as high as 45%. sc...

Saying we will work together to get to the bottom of this. that was drilled trouble for the irs and the white house. jon: a lot of work to do. chief congressional correspondent, thank you. reporter: thank you. uma: house republicans electing new leaders in the wake of eric cantor loss. on august 1, he will move to number two position from the current number three spot as house majority whip. louisiana representative after a competitive three-way race. both mccarthy and the other will stand for reelection after the november midterm election. jon: a shocking lapse in safety precautions at the ce...