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You need more machines. >> and democrats did push for that amendment recognizing that local governments do need more money because of republicans. the funding to local governments have been cut. but we should not disenfranchise people in the process. so republicans rejected a reasonable public policy recommendation by democrats to study it. and our democracy is the greatest equalizer. we cannot sit back idly by and allow this to happen. we should be expanding and protecting the vote. but that is not happening in ohio. that is not happening in certain states across this country. and i am asking...

Circumstances should we support the farm bill, unless republicans agree to use the savings from it to extend unemployment insurance. now we're getting down to the nitty-gritty. this is how you've got to play ball with the republicans. here's the lay of the land. a lot of senators are unsure about this budget bill. the latest whip count shows, as of late this afternoon, only 35 yes votes are available in the senate for this budget bill. most of the yes votes are democrats. but 60 votes are needed to clear procedural hurdles in the senate. the senate is the only thing standing in the way of this...

Democrats and republicans have agreed to, for a good cause. to extend unemployment insurance. and you know, ed, we tried during the budget negotiations to use the savings from the farm bill to help replace a part of sequester. republicans said they didn't want to do it then. we looked at other things for that purpose. but now we should definitely be using them, because as you said, otherwise you're going to have 1.3 million americans who have worked hard, who are continuing to look every day for work, and so what better use of farm bill savings and the reductions and ag subsidies than to help ...

Allow the american people, even the benefit of a vote. we said, you know, mr. speaker, house republicans, if you want to vote no, if you want to vote against unemployment insurance for the american people, for goodness sakes, have the decency to do it in a transparent way, do it in the light of day. they refused to do it. in the senate, harry reid tried to bring this up by unanimous consent. republicans shot it down. >> so if we did this with the farm bill at $15 billion, and since we're going to be spending $520 billion on defense, isn't there any way we could carve $10 billion out of the def...

House rules committee, to ask for a vote on a very simple proposal. we wanted to extend unemployment insurance for at least three months. and we actually had a way to pay for it. and the way we paid for it was by using some of these excessive crop subsidies, which, by the way, the republicans claim they want to get rid of as well. so we said, well, let's use some of those savings to help these folks who are going to be out in the cold throw days after christmas. and republicans were so concerned that they didn't even allow a vote on that measure, ed. so what i'm saying is that when we come bac...