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Felt some need. is there any sense that republicans might be opened to some kind of compromise this year on raising the minimum wage? >> when you open it up, the wage issue we were talking about before, there are republicans that said they need to talk about it, chank their rhetoric. talk less about tax cuts for the rich, more about trying to increase the opportunity for the middle class. so when, put through that prism, you may have some republicans that are thinking about this. i think we haven't seen yet exactly where all of the republican sort of the pressure points have all shaken out in ...

Data that indicates that people who receive welfare or cash benefits use drugs at a higher rate than the rest of the general population. it seems as though this is really more of a political issue. the governor campaigned on it, as you said, when he was running for governor in 2010, and it polls really well among republicans shortly after the lawsuit was filed in 2011, a quinnipiac university poll of floridians showed that more than 70% of floridians supported testing welfare recipients, and that was 90% of republicans favored it. and one of governor scott's aides at the time told me when the ...

For have been counting on federal emergency aid which has been going on for five years now. it's tough not to feel for them. >> it's tough not to feel for them. this is also something that's been voted on repeatedly by republican congresss and democratic congresses. it's always been paid for, and if this is extended again, it will be paid for. this is not going to add to the deficit. >> let me quickly point that out. unemployment benefits extended another year would cost $25 million. speaker john boehner, republican speaker of the house, is saying, i'm willing to extend it but you have to find...

For have been counting on federal emergency aid which has been going on for five years now. it's tough not to feel for them. >> it's tough not to feel for them. this is also something that's been voted on repeatedly by republican congresss and democratic congresses. it's always been paid for, and if this is extended again, it will be paid for. this is not going to add to the deficit. >> let me quickly point that out. unemployment benefits extended another year would cost $25 million. speaker john boehner, republican speaker of the house, is saying, i'm willing to extend it but you have to find...

For have been counting on federal emergency aid which has been going on for five years now. it's tough not to feel for them. >> it's tough not to feel for them. this is also something that's been voted on repeatedly by republican congresss and democratic congresses. it's always been paid for, and if this is extended again, it will be paid for. this is not going to add to the deficit. >> let me quickly point that out. unemployment benefits extended another year would cost $25 million. speaker john boehner, republican speaker of the house, is saying, i'm willing to extend it but you have to find...