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Can't vote on that. you actually have to go down and hold the floor and talk and talk and talk and talk all night and for days and for weeks. you need to work for it. there is merit to this idea. it would make filibusters harder on the minority. it would make them more transparent to the public. it would make them less likely on popular bills, but it wouldn't reverse the transformation of the senate into a place where 60 votes required to get anything done. so there is a proposal that personally i like better. frankly, it's kind of an ingenious proposal. it recognizes that there is general val...

That's how we got the tax, right, that the cigarettes are at now in the state. this time around, even fewer californians are smoking. and when they first started polling on this subject this year, when they first started polling on the i hate cancer bill, people if california loved it even more than they loved the idea back in 1998. the idea of a new $1 a pack cigarette tax was winning by more than a two to one margin in the state. 67% of people in california saying they were in favor of this new cigarette tax. that is a slam dunk. the poll was released by the public policy institute of califo...

Deaths of pakistan soldiers, u.s. forces made a cross-border attack in pakistan. officials say american soldiers only responded after pakistani soldiers fired first after using information given to them by pakistan. new today, house budget committee chairman paul ryan defending his budgets plan that's drawn severe criticism from democrats. >> we think we owe the country solutions. we think we owe the country a path to prosperity to get the american idea back, get people back to work and get this debt under control. the president is making it worse and the senate hasn't passed a budget for 1,...

Well, our teleprompter went dead. >> ah it is one of those inventions so influential we no longer even notice its existence unless, of course, something goes wrong, i'm talking about the teleprompter and we are talking about it today because the inventor, hubert j. hub shaffly, jr., passed away. he came up with the idea back in the '50s to help soap opera stars remember their lines but the biggest impact ended up being on news programs like this one, and also in the political arena. case in point. >> that's one reason why we took swift and aggressive action in the first months of my administra...

Political paralysis. right now we've got a government, the president and congress who don't believe in reducing government they want to grow it as fast and far as possible in different aspects of our economy and lives and that's what we are fighting now. i'll trying to say there's a better way to go. it is not too late to get the american idea back. prosperous society. live in a government where we propose entrepreneurial leadership and we don't have more takers versus makers in america. >> greta: hard to think politics for sale the "washington post" says most oil lobbyists work for government...