but our goal here has always been to see legislation that we can find bipartisan that will move to the senate and actually get signed into law. we are still working with the speaker, house leadership to come up with that bill. hopefully a compromised bill and if not move forward on a full debate in front of the american public. you re taking it from both sides, now, congressman. i read this op ed in the national review over the weekend who is anti-immigration advocate. he says what you re trying to do with the act you ve signed on to, the one you most want to see passed, that bill would pair an amnesty even more expansive than the 1.8 million illegal aliens with window dressing that would do nothing to contain the fallout of that amnesty. so that s coming in from the right saying you want big amnesty. your response. it s just not true. this would be an earned pathway. it would be a long 12 year
to those attacks as trump has questioned. jeb bush has a 68thing op ed in the national review. he writes, let s be clear, donald trump simply doesn t know what he s talking about. and his bluster overcompensates for a shocking lack of knowledge on the complex national security challenges that will confront the next president of the united states. so donald trump responded overnight to fox news, perhaps, softening his tone a bit. i respect the fact that jeb is defending his brother. i think that s good. i would do the same. . if jeb wins the nomination, will you support him? absolutely, yes, i would absolutely support him. he s a good person, he s a good man. i would support him. the good person, good man, nice guy stuff stuff that trump said a lot a. lot of people thinking the way he says it is in a demeaning way, sure, he s a nice guy, i like him. then he ll go on and say he s low energy, not sharp enough. today donald trump campaigning
that was newt gingrich at a church in georgia, his home state yesterday. so will religion become front and center now as part of the debate? right, there s an interesting op ed in the national review today and it says, the president has apologized to the afghanis but he s refused to apologize by forcing catholics to violate their religious beliefs or pay a tax penalty. he said just imagine what they d do if barack obama adopted a rule forcing muslims to violate their religious beliefs or pay a tax penalty. that in the pages today in the national review. interesting. moments away, rick santorum in the meantime, let s do some headlines for you now because wikileaks is at it again. the controversial web site publishing more classified documents today that could put u.s. national security at risk. it s posting almost five million e-mails from strategic forecasting incorporated. that s also known as strat 4. what is it? the global security group has been called a shadow c.i.a. how wik
routine business, passed through the senate. neither party has been blameless in these tactics. now both parties should put an end to it. for starters, i asked the senate to pass a simple rule that all judicial and public service nominations receive a simple up or down vote within 90 days. [ applause ] the executive branch also needs to change. too often it s inefficient, outdated, and remote. that s why i ve asked this congress to grant me the authority to consolidate the federal bureaucracy so that our government is leaner, quicker, and more responsive to the needs of the american people. finally, none of this can happen unless we also lower the temperature in this town. we need to end the notion that the two parties must be locked in a perpetual campaign of mutual destruction, that politics is about clinging to rigid ideaologisologies instead building consensus around common sense ideas. i m a democrat, but i believe what republican abraham lincoln believed the governmen