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Budget, but we have a house budget and a senate democratic budget. the next step in the process, what we call regular order, is to go to conference so we have a conversation about how to iron out the differences, try and have a negotiation, but right now the speaker of the house has refused to send conferees to that conversation. i mean, and you can't work this out if you don't have people at the table which is why yesterday i submitted a -- a bill calling upon the speaker simply to appoint conferees to get that conversation going. i mean, the american people rightfully expect us to try and wo...

To have taken the bill off the calendar for now. the senate sponsor saying he's just going to wait a while on this. but it's not just some republicans in tennessee who are going there, who think that people should stop electing our senators. across the state line in georgia, republicans also have a bill calling for voters to lose that particular voting right. the georgia measure has not gone much of anywhere yet but it is still kicking around. and it may seem like a weird idea, but ending democracy for senate elections turns out to be a really popular thing among certain republicans. our own s...

Georgia, republicans also have a bill calling for voters to lose that particular voting right. the georgia measure has not gone much of anywhere yet but it is still kicking around. and it may seem like a weird idea, but ending democracy for senate elections turns out to be a really popular thing among certain republicans. our own steve benan has been tracking this as kind of a hobby. the list of people who want to get rid of the 17th amendment includes guys like louis gohmert who's out there with his own state's governor, rick perry. also mitch congressman pete hoekstra, raul labrador, utah se...

Across the state line in georgia, republicans also have a bill calling for voters to lose that particular voting right. the georgia measure has not gone much of anywhere yet but it is still kicking around. and it may seem like a weird idea, but ending democracy for senate elections turns out to be a really popular thing among certain republicans. our own steve ben an has been tracking this as kind of a hobby. the list of people who want to get rid of the 17th amendment includes guys like louis gohmert who's out there with his own state's governor, rick perry. also mitch congressman pete hoekst...

Exchange the word democrat for republican and republican for democrat, and i will point out the house gop has voted 33 times to repeal obama care. talk about gimmicky bills that go nowhere. they have also called a bill calling for the resignation of attorney general eric holder. there is something they passed in the house called the homeland security respect for life act which prevents federal dollars from going to abortions and then there is another bill prohibiting the regulation of carbon dioxide and greenhouse gas until china, india, and russia implement similar reductions. there's a bevy,...