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>> all right. a beautiful day in midtown manhattan. this memorial day weekend is on everyone's mind, barbecuing and with the family and all that. we'll do a lot more of that in the segments to come, but in the meantime we're in gridlock in washington where two parties aren't talking to each other. some don't know. i have italian relatives that haven't talked for decades and ask you ask why, they don't remember why it happened. it's not bad for the country. we get drilled in our head it can't be productive. wall street kind of likes that, in a split government environment where it's tougher to ...

They have come close though. for years organizers have pushed the employee nondiscrimination act, enda, with some success. then it died in the senate. last year, however, it passed the senate with 64 votes. not bad for today's political gridlock environment. but now republicans are blocking it from a floor vote in the house. jared pollis, the only openly gay parent in congress, has tried to pick up where barney frank left off. >> we have a number of people in leadership positions here in congress, elsewhere in the country, who say, oh, we are not in favor of discriminating against people based...

They have come close though. for years organizers have pushed the employee nondiscrimination act, enda, with some success. then it died in the senate. last year, however, it passed the senate with 64 votes. not bad for today's political gridlock environment. but now republicans are blocking it from a floor vote in the house. jared pollis, the only openly gay parent in congress, has tried to pick up where barney frank left off. >> we have a number of people in leadership positions here in congress, elsewhere in the country, who say, oh, we are not in favor of discriminating against people based...