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15 years, essentially completely created by that one piece of legislation. people have been debating about, it fighting about, it and yesterday, democrats and republicans in the house just together voted overwhelmingly to pass legislation to rescue the usps from its financial loads. the senate sponsored by -- has more than a dozen republican cosponsors, and senator gary peters joins me now. senator, just to reset here, the pension provisions in about 2006 bill, what was the point of it? no other private business has to fund it -- nobody has to do that kind of penchant pre-funding in america. i...

Loads. the senate sponsored by -- has more than a dozen republican cosponsors, and senator gary peters joins me now. senator, just to reset here, the pension provisions in about 2006 bill, what was the point of it? no other private business has to fund it -- nobody has to do that kind of penchant pre-funding in america. i never even understood, was it just literally to put the thing out of business? >> to be honest with you, i have not been able to get a good answer to why it was in there. clearly, it is ridiculous. as you mentioned in your segments, no government agency does this brief and he...

Yesterday president trump disavowed senators alexander and murray saying he can never, quote, support baling out insurance companies. the bill was designed to stabilize insurance markets under obamacare by guaranteeing the cost share reduction payments the president recently cut off. msnbc's garrett haake is live on the hill. what's the latest? >> reporter: well, the latest is this bill has sort of stalled out, but the work continues with senators alexander and murray still trying to improve upon this compromise, if they can. the compromise that they came up with was very warmly received by de...

Republican cosponsors. cantor is still being kind of cagey, so it really sort of shows how republicans have given up even pretending to appeal to african-american voters. >> and we mention those nine states that have new voter laws, and i know you were on the conference call with the dnc yesterday where they were trying to use the stricter voting laws to bring motivation to people to go to the polls. "this is an attempt by the republican party to shrink the electorate because they know that when the electorate is large, they lose. when the electorate is smaller, they win. it is crass, it is pu...

2012 intentions. the inevitable question of whether the republicans would run michael steele for president. wow. nobody knows who the republicans are going to run in 2012, but in the lead-up to this year's elections, the democratic president regaining his momentum seems to have disoriented the republicans on policy. republicans are now frequently voting against things they used to support. today, for example, there was this from president obama. >> i have proposed a bipartisan fiscal commission. a panel of democrats and republicans who would hammer out concrete deficit reduction proposals over...