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Also got the 41st vote in the house on repealing obama care. 41 times they cast the votes now. never had practical effect and never will. if it wasn't fun enough, 40 times, maybe 41 will be the charm. congressman john dingell take it from here. >> here we go again. time of the house is being wasted. the business of the nation. is being obfuscated. the republicans have more nonsense to put on the floor. >> tah-dah. while the house goes through this process of remembering what it is it wants to waste time on, remembering what futile symbolic action it wants to make instead of making policy, cong...

People who are making policy, there are more and more women in there. not enough, but more. >> and on the gun issue, is there something about being a mother that made a story, i think it was overnight in texas, and there was, i think it was like a 3-year-old who was shot by a 5-year-old, something like that. we had a number of stories like this. in fact, i think we have a graph. this is just since newtown. these are shootings that have been documented of kids. this is just since last december and there's like 75 that have been documented. you can see the states are kind of shade there had by n...

Administration. >> one question that i've been looking at frankly is there are no assistant secretaries of state. ambassadors from all over the world are asking me, whom do we deal with. who is making policy. and when you ask both the state department and the white house about this, they say well the confirmation process is so bad. that we have to vet these people over and over again. and penny pritzger's case, she might have been nominated before, but she had so many holdings, she might have had to divest a lot. it's complicated for someone at her level of business involvement. and at this po...

But, you know, tom ridge no longer holds elected office. he no longer makes policy on marriage, gay or otherwise. and when he did, when he was governor of pennsylvania, tom ridge signed into law that state's own ban on same-sex marriage. what he did in office is one thing. what kruer doing now that you're freed from office is the new thing. what is actually happening in the party right now? are the politics on social issues changing for the whole party, or are they only changing among the retired class? the republicans who are no longer making policy. where are all the elected? joining us is n...

Marriage, gay or otherwise. and when he did, when he was governor of pennsylvania, tom ridge signed into law that state's own ban on same-sex marriage. what he did in office is one thing. what you're doing now that you're freed from office is the new thing. what is actually happening in the party right now? are the politics on social issues changing for the whole party, or are they only changing among the retired class? the republicans who are no longer making policy. where are all the elected? joining us is nicolle wallace, former communications director for the bush administration, former se...