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Go for a big jobs bill. not this puny, $15 billion. put the road builders out there. start bidding stuff. put lots, millions of people to work and get through this recession. just do it and dare the republicans not to join them. why don't they do that? is this pat moynihan thinking or what? >> that's pat moynihan thinking for you and i respect it as such. the republicans don't like big government. they think they're going to run in the midterms. >> but they love jobs and appropriations. >> they want to blame the jobless recovery on obama and they can't be in favor of somebody that spends a lot...

Yukered into deal where they go for a big jobs bill. not this puny, $15 billion. put the road builders out there. start bidding stuff. put lots, millions of people to work and get through this recession. just do it and dare the republicans not to join them. why don't they do that? is this pat moynihan thinking or what? >> that's pat moynihan thinking for you and i respect it as such. the republicans don't like big government. they think they're going to run in the midterms. >> but they love jobs and appropriations. >> they want to blame the jobless recovery on obama and they can't be favor of ...

There's no more let's do it some other time. >> right now, there's some outside pressure on congressional negotiators to raise the 18.4 cent per gallon federal gasoline tax, something that's being pushed by state highway officials and road builders across america. casinos are also pushing to get language legalizing online poker into a deal and governors hit hard by superstorm sandy or wanting more if federal aid to come to them through a potential deal. whatever agreement it made to avoid the fiscal cliff, it's going to be worth a lot of money and now is the time that groups are stepping up to...