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Washington these days, the future of the baldwin/blumenthal proposal is uncertain at best. it may have its intended electoral effect, anyway. joining us, senator tammy baldwin. senator baldwin, appreciate you taking a few minutes tonight. let me ask you about the proposal. obviously, you know, we've seen the headlines in recent years about an initiative in this state and initiative in that state. so specifically, what are the laws, what are the restrictions, what are the things you are trying to undo with this bill? >> well, it's been incredible to watch what the states have done just in recen...

Recent decision in the hobby lobby case. udall has been focusing on the issue since the early days of this campaign. now new polling just out today shows gardner trailing udall by seven points overall in colorado and by 12 points among women voters. so just like for president obama in 2012, women right now are making the difference for mark udall and they could make the difference for other democrats in other critical senate races this year, too. now in light of that, democrats are upping the ante. today on capitol hill, senate democrats, a new piece of legislation that attempts to counteract ...

Proposal is uncertain at best. it may have its intended electoral effect, anyway. joining us, senator tammy baldwin. senator baldwin, appreciate you taking a few minutes tonight. let me ask you about the proposal. obviously, you know, we've seen the headlines in recent years about an initiative in this state and initiative in that state. so specifically, what are the laws, what are the restrictions, what are the things you are trying to undo with this bill? >> well, it's been incredible to watch what the states have done just in recent years. in the last three years, alone, over 200 laws have ...

You know, there's a lot of nebulous territory here in washington these days because you really aren't getting people to just come forward and say this is how i think we need to be acting, and that goes for the republicans in the house, it goes for the white house. we're not seeing if they are indeed willing to say this proposal -- by the way, there's still no language, specific language on that proposal that i know of. i'd love to see it. what exactly -- when senator reid said it's too broad, i haven't seen any of the language, i don't know if any of the legislators have seen any of the langua...

Here? >> i think it is, steve. you know, there's a lot of nebulous territory here in washington these days because you really aren't getting people to just come forward and say this is how i think we need to be acting, and that goes for the republicans in the house, it goes for the white house. we're not seeing if they are indeed willing to say this proposal -- by the way, there's still no language, specific language on that proposal that i know of. i'd love to see it. what exactly -- when senator reid said it's too broad, i haven't seen any of the language, i don't know if any of the legislat...