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You can think of it as an honor system. an honor system for convicted murderers. if we as a country have agreed that felons give up their right to purchase a gun, do we agree this is a reasonable way to enforce that law? the honor system for felons and people with severe mental illness. if you ask the gun rights people about this honor system for felons, if you ask the nra about closing this loophole, making private sellers have to check to see if they are selling it to i afelon, the nra says that's a solution in search of a problem. there is no problem of people selling guns to people who cou...

Form. after the republicans attached a 1, 700 oil pipeline from canada to the gulf of mexico to the bill, the white house issued a formal veto threat letter to the house of representatives. "if the president were presented with hr 3630, he would veto the bill." that made the vote tonight an academic exercise, especially since the bill didn't come close to getting a veto-proof two-thirds majority in the house. joining me now is congressman steny hoyer of maryland, the house democratic whip. congressman hoyer, why did the democrats vote against this bill overwhelmingly today? >> because this was...

1, 700 oil pipeline from canada to the gulf of mexico to the bill, the white house issued a formal veto threat letter to the house of representatives. "if the president were presented with hr 3630, he would veto the bill." that made the vote tonight an academic exercise, especially since the bill didn't come close to getting a veto-proof two-thirds majority in the house. joining me now is congressman steny hoyer of maryland, the house democratic whip. congressman hoyer, why did the democrats vote against this bill overwhelmingly today? >> because this was not a real bill, lawrence, in the sens...

Him identify which -- >> the president? >> all of these things -- no, eric cantor. get him on here and ask what he's opposed to. >> because he didn't come to leadership, didn't return their calls before the speech, hasn't met with them since, it might have been the plan all along to put the jobs bill out there, something that republicans couldn't get behind, and then run against what they couldn't pass. >> you mean you're citing mitch mcconnell, the guy who at the beginning of this congress said that his number one priority was defeating barack obama, not putting people back to work, not getti...

Don't care how much you make, where you live. president obama wants to take more. this is a moral question. what is a legitimate share? >> sean: they don't want to answer that question. >> i spent my entire show today asking democrats, give me a share share. they won't answer it. >> what is unfortunate he proposed something he knew could not pass in the current congress because it couldn't pass in the democratically led congress. now the nation is embroiled in a debate over class warfare and what is class warfare and what is not rather than í >> sean: here's my theory. i think he's mentally, ...