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Job where they don't really have a choice as to whether or not they can union representation. i think democracy is a good thing. they need to have more. >> harold ford, look at the numbers from 2008 in wisconsin and the presidential race. this was a state that the president carried 56 to 42. a swing state. you wouldn't know it by those numbers. but more republicans certainly in the mid-term elections had strong gains and make no mistake, the president is elevated to governor walker. this is about energizing unions. this is the core of the democratic party, and this can be a big issue now. >> i...

Senators bond and bunning both taking a way $58,900 in annual pensions. >> unlike state and local pension plans the federal congressional pension system is simply a direct line into the taxpayers' wallet. there's no investments that need to be made, no fund balances that get worried about. whatever the liability is for a given year taxpayers cough up the money for it. >> reporter: we called the senators to get a response. our calls were not returned. the congressional retirement system was reformed in 1984 to make the system less generous and more in line with that of other federal workers. st...

Make the system less generous and more in line with that of other federal workers. still representative howard cobble says the system is broken. he's tried repeatedly to reform the pension program which he says hasn't won his many friends on capitol hill. >> well, it's too lavish. it's too generous when you compare it with pensions across the country. i elected to refuse the pension on the ground that taxpayers are subsidizing my salary now and i figure when i leave, they've taken good care of me, let me do the best i can once i leave after the service in the congress has been accomplished. >>...

Made and no fund balances that get worried about. whatever the liability is for a given year, taxpayers cough up the money for it. >> reporter: we called the senators to get a response, but the calls were not returned. the congressional retirement system was reformed in 1994 to make the system less generous and more in line with that of other federal workers, but howard cobble says that the system is broken, and he has tried repeatedly to reform the pension program which has not won him too many friends on capitol hill. >> it is too lavish when you comparet with pensions across the country. i ...

Hillary clinton made her first appearance since her stunning defeat a few weeks ago. kasie hunt is there. before we go to what hillary clinton said, we follow developments in the upper chamber right now facing, of course, that midnight deadline to keep it. >> reporter: craig, i will tell you, absolutely no appetite at all for the permanent shutdown on capitol hill. i don't think at this point that's a reasonable risk. but know there are democrats led by senator joe mansion of west virginia who are very concerned about a pension program for coal miners that's not included or extended. a andrea ...