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West, their application process could be much faster just because of the vagaries of our patchwork system. it's not uniform at all. so people in, say, new york, miami, los angeles, the wait times are longer. there's tremendous backlog, all sorts of hoops. yet if you happen to be in salt lake city or seattle, it's much easier. the system is incoherent and inconsistent just geographically if nothing else. >> i want to then just ask to follow up on that, so is our immigration process too hard in the wrong ways, igor? in other words, i think we all recognize that you've got to have some barriers t...

I am a little less forgiving because they did have three years to put up that website. but three times is plenty of time to get the coding right. and what we're looking at is a real coding failure. that said, you are seeing a patchwork of health care reform develop in this country, in which some states are buying into the concept of bawl care, places like kentucky, new york, et cetera. and even now in ohio where john kasich announced that he would expand medicaid to poor and lower class ohioans, and then you see states not trying to participate in the law. what you're going to end up with is a...

Midnight there will be two more states that let gay people get married, we will still have a patchwork system in this country where rights are not dolled out equally, but then again, 13 states, that's all we had when we, the united states first became a country. can you do a lot with just 13 states. joining us now is pennsylvania state representative brian simms. representative simms asked to speak on the pennsylvania house floor about the defense of marriage act the day the supreme court shut down the law. republican lawmakers shut down simms attempt to speak on the floor that day. it's good ...

Laws. seriously, no law broken. they were arrested and charged under a law that was found to be unconstitutional by the supreme court over a decade ago. the sheriff says he will expunge the men's records and waive the fee to do so. councilmembers said they would take a look at such a proposal. but there are already laws in place to protect gay people. you mean like the 10-year-old supreme court rule something that doesn't seem like enough here. it is truly exciting as of midnight there will be two more states that let gay people get married, we will still have a patchwork system in this countr...

And so we do have a very interesting patchwork system right now, where we've got marriage rights in california, we've got marriage rights overall in 12 states and we've got federal marriage rights. but we still have unequal recognition of marriages between same-sex couples and opposite sex couples in 38 other states. it's a very untenable situation in practical terms for couples. it's also an untenable legal situation. as tom just said. listen, these are legal fights for another day in terms of whether or not a utah couple whose marriage is recognized federally, and say in the military and in ...