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American and very impressive military man. i was struck by what senator inhoff said a few moments ago, make sure you watch that vote later today on the waiver because by law you have to be a civilian for seven years, mattis does not qualify for that. they will have this vote later today. why is that so significant as the vote goes later today, jennifer? >> it's very significant. in fact, bill, spoken to sources on the hill and they will try and fast track this vote because the house goes out of session tomorrow afternoon and will not come into session until january 20th. and they really, given...

>> joining me tonight on the ed show, senator barbara boxer of california, senator, good to have you with us tonight. >> thank you. >> let's talk about roads first, republicans just can't wait to do intervention in ukraine, they don't care how much we spend, but on the domesticside, they're tight with the dollar, the house passed a short-term fix for the highway funding trust fund, why won't you support that in its current version, what do you have against that? where are you? >> here's the problem, we need to fund roads, bridges, and transportation systems for a multiyear period. i say six ye...

Rush limbaugh thought the arrest was a distraction from iraq. >> isn't it an amazing timely coincidence they have found a militia leader of the benghazi attack and arrested him? isn't it amazing timing? it's obvious this is a very timely headline. given how things are are falling apart in iraq. >> it's quite obvious that rush doesn't know what he's talking about. one gop senator had another distraction theory. senator james inhoff said, quote, the administration would like to say, all right, we have apprehended someone. isn't that great, to deflect the attention away from the real benghazi pro...

Climate change regulations. the administration should try to protect the lives and property from our nation's extreme weather by better weather forecasting. >> not smaller carbon footprints, better weather forecasting. he doesn't complete deny that climate change is happening. for that, you have to turn to ranking member of the senate committee on the environment and public works and the most powerful republican in the country when it comes to climate change, senator james inhoff. >> the evidence out there is almost laughable. in three years, egypt has

People you can see there are republican senators. there are no senators on the floor. nobody to speak. the republicans forgot to show up, oh, there goes the board. republicans forgot to show up for their own protest. there's nobody there. at one point, this guy, he stands up, looks around and then puts his hand in his pocket and sits down and just puts his head in his hands. that's pretty much all the action. our blessed cspan stays on it until the bitter end. finally, they are forced to go to this. this was supposed to be the republicans big, all night stand, but when they forgot to show up, ...