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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...

Yours is called over 80 members, a super gang. how is your group's approach different this time around? >> peter and i are part of the organization no labels problem solvers if you follow us on twitter and putting together and agenda of nine bipartisan bills that can move this country forward everything from how we are handling procurement issues to energy efficiency that the congressman welch and i are working on together. i think we are going to take those words and turn them into action because this is more than just simply saying this is what we are going to do. this is about actually gett...

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Propose as a pay-for, i guess that's where they would begin. >> sadly, lawrence, unemployment insurance extension under emergency conditions where we have very high unemployment, this has been an automatic routine approval since 1970. there's never been a required offset in this kind of emergency. we've had these emergencies before. and suddenly now after 45 years, republicans are saying we have to have an offset. now, when they talk about offsets, interestingly, they don't talk about closing tax loopholes for the rich. i mean, if you took just one tax loophole, the carried interest tax loopho...