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Nan nancy? a long time. many, many year, and it is looking like it is going to be passing hopefully, and famous last words on the very bi-partisan way. it issing something th it is something that we have been very proud of and again tremendous support from the republicans and the democrats, and i believe it is going to be getting a good vote. we will see soon enough, but it is up shortly, and lot of years waiting for that. and another move is that the farm bill is moving up, and they will be voting on friday or close. soon. and we think that the farm bill is in a good shape and a lot of good things are happening with it, and the farmers are well taken care of, and again, that is quite bipartisan. it will happen soon and the wall that is the easiest one of all, isn t it, chuck? it is called fund iing the ....
Direction or another may be wrong for some. this morning president obama delivered his final weekly address. i d like to play a piece of that for you now and then talk. it has been the honor of my life to serve you as president. i am even more optimistic about our kcountry s promise and look forward to working along your side as a citizen for all my days that remain. what do you see as the key parts of president obama s legacy and what do you think we ll be talking about or will still be affecting us 20 years from now? 20 wow. i m not sure that i have looked out that far how about tomorrow. what i can say we ve got to look at where president obama started. the worst economy in the world. the whole world economy was about to collapse and he was able to get fund iing through congress to actually bail out wall street, to bail out also the auto industry. ....
Club for growth, the tea party. the major policy difference between cochrane and the challenger, their views on what to to with federal fund iing. cochrane has a track record of funneling federal dollars from 2008 to 2010 alone he secured . 2.6 billion in earmarks for projects in mississippi. that was before the earmark ban, a tea party concoction which he opposed. he used to be really good at this. and assuredly that contributed to the fact that mississippi gets nearly half of its general revenue from federal dollars, the most of any state in the country. mcdaniel s supporters attacked cochrane for bringing home the bacon. in mississippi thad cochran s name is on many buildings. it s on bailouts, tax hikes and debt, lots of at the time. the tea parties to not like pork with their tea. in the end cochran, however, won ....
I think 2014 needs to be a year of action. we can get immigration reform done. we ve got a concept that has bipartisan support. let s see if we can break through the politics on this. that was one of president obama s stated missions when he gets back to washington, d.c., getting immigration reform done, and soon. but while the speaker of the house, john boehner, has indicated that he is potentially on board, house majority leader eric cantor told republicans in a memo friday that the party s agenda for january consists of obamacare, government fund iing iran, the farm bill, and epa reform. as for immigration, that may be brought to the floor, may. and only over the next few months. so, read the tea leaves, as we did on unemployment insurance. do you think, facing these political realities, that we re going to get action on immigration reform? yes, but two qualifications. one, second-term presidents don t usually have big breakthroughs. it s much more of a muddling through. oh, t ....
And it makes me sick. reporter: statistics show 1.2 million vets still living, but they are dying at an alarming date, 816 per day. the honor flight network had brought nearly 100,000 of the veterans to d.c. and when veteran mike laurenti found out that the memorial was closed, but the congressional gyms were open, he was disgraced. he was pleased by what happened sunday. i appreciate it, and it is worth every time i spent. reporter: gop members said that they have reopened the memorial, and saying that it is not need to vote on piecemeal fund iing, and open all governmt operations. this does not belong to the government. it belongs to the people. are we going to let them shut us out of what is rightfully ours? ....