Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20121227:17:32:00
So that we can proceed to get legislation passed the. >> two key priorities for president obama's second term agenda are immigration and climate changes. the president needs majorities in both houses to join him on those issues. here is the weird thing about washington. that's already happened. the house passed the american clean nr act in june 2009 and democrats believed they had a majority for it in the senate, but it never got a floor vote. that is because republicans silencedly filibustered it and it takes 60 votes to break a filibuster. consider the dream act, which would help the childre...