Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110831:01:08:00
By basically a marsh cloud that eric cantor is basically making federal disaster relief funds part of political gamesmanship. shouldn't emergencies be separate from politics? >> absolutely, melissa. this is outrageous on the part of cantor and the house republican leaders. the fact of the matter is, traditionally, i've been in congress for 24 years now, emergency supplemental appropriation bills were for that, emergencies. the reason they bypassed the budget process is because we wanted to get the money to the states and the towns and the people quickly because they were in distress. so to sug...