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Robert menendez, democrat from new jersey. he joined with other democrats today to urge congress to pass the first portion of the president's jobs bill. thank you for coming on the show tonight. >> good to be with you, reverend. >> what will it take to get this bill passed, senator? >> well, i hope voices from across the country. this is something that should be clearly bipartisan. teachers, 400,000 educators that we'd save for our children's classrooms across this country, and we've seen from parents across the country, and in my home state of new jersey, who have seen those classroom sizes r...

Teachers. are you foss loosening up some of these rules so that maybe negotiations get reopened more frequently? >> i met with a group, i did a roundtable root at statehouse square maybe a month ago. police officers negotiate for bulletproof vests at the bargaining table. teachers negotiate for class size. if a school district is threatened financially, as is many are, i think they sit down with teachers through the bargaining process and they work through in questions. are you willing to give up sng for your retirement, put in more for yourself in order to keep jobs and keep classroom sizes s...

Accordance with the law, but it is giving people more of an inside game than more of the people's game. >> well, if you put any of us in a position that chris dodd will collect a $1.2 million salary and if you are offered that money, it would be hard to turn that down to go back home to earning far less than that in your home district. >> do something less glamorous and less high profile and effective, so it is hard to resist this money. >> good to see you, major. we are waiting for apple's ipad 2 announcement. what could that be? well, it is the ipad 2. thousands of teachers in jeopardy o...

And the legislature came to an agreement. they used that money to displace state money so there was ale hole in the cost sharing grant which is how we distribute $1.9 billionle to local communities. there was a hole of $270 million. if i allowed that to go through a place like bridgeport, connecticut, one of the poorest cities in america would have lost 270 teachers and would be looking at classroom sizes of 40 children per class in a system that's in an advanced state of difficult if not failure. >> i want to ask you about cutting taxes in a minute. do you worry that raising taxes is going to...

Hole in the cost sharing grant which is how we distribute $1.9 billion to local communities. there was a hole of $270 million. if i allowed that to go through a place like bridgeport, connecticut, one of the poorest cities in america would have lost 270 teachers and would be looking at classroom sizes of 40 children per class in a system that's in an advanced state of difficult if not failure. >> i want to ask you about cutting taxes in a minute. a yes or no, if i could. do you worry that raising taxes is going to cost you in unemployment and cost you some business coming into connecticut? >> ...