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>> joining me now are democrat congressman peter welsh of vermont and former secretary of labor robert reich, professor at the university of california at berkeley. representative welch, assuming this bill makes further progress in the united states senate, which is not at all certain at this point, what are the prospects of some kind of action in the house of representatives? >> well, it's pretty uphill, because we're having this debate as though extending unemployment benefits is going to solve the problem. what it will do is mitigate the impact on individuals and on the economy, but, in fac...

0 think it's important to understand what you're saying. there are a lot of books that come out as we know and a lot of memoirs. i think what's striking about this one and some of the others we've seen, paul o'neil's comes to mind they go into high-level private meetings and go beyond using private record and expose more of the secret record. yet i wonder as we look at this, he want through the processes and worked with pentagon on this material but there's clearly a lot in here that's from those high-level previously confidential meetings and yet i'm not hearing any charges or calls for him t...

0 federal general with slaves. he announced that he won't run for re-election. instead he will apply for the job of president at the college of charleston. he said he had been forced by providence and the south carolina constitution to become lieutenant governor but he never had any desire to have the job. because who would want a job like that? and from the perspective of florida governor rick scott, why would you ever want to pick a new person for that job, even if you could finally get somebody, sm anybody to say yes. but the lawsuit wants to force mr. scott to name somebody, anybody as lie...

insurance expire for millions of americans is wrong. >> long-term unemployment benefits. >> the majority of the nation wants to see these benefits extended. >> the good news is 24 this morning the senate took an important step in that direction. >> the senate got 60 votes it needed to advance. >> but not so fast. >> this is just a vote to proceed to the measure. >> we still have to actually clear the senate. >> and then the legislation will travel down the rabbit hole. >> the house of representatives -- >> where speaker boehner has already suggested it will face resistance. republica...

0 to say that. we're in the highest deficit of all time. should they pay for this? perhaps. we could look at sugar industry. oil and gas industry. lots of places we could look for pay fors. the finance committee. ways and means committee, they have inches and inches and lists of pay fors that they could easily pull out. once you do that, you take from one and give to the other and that makes everybody mad. the pressure will build on the house if the senate passes it and i think they will pass something. >> you set me up well for this. as we look to continually strategize over how to goose this...