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Year we passed in the senate the relief that it would give to middle class americans. that passed the senate. now, we know that the republicans have buried themselves in procedural road blocks to everything we try to do around here, and now they're saying, well, we can't do the $250,000 because it wasn't blue slipped, because it will be blue slipped. mr. president, how do the american people react to that? there was a bill introduced by the ranking member of the ways and means committee in the house, sandy levin, that called for this legislation. the speaker was going to bring it up to kill it...

0 a very busy day here in washington and we want to take you right to the senate floor where senator mitch mcconnell is actually speaking about the fiscal cliff. let's take a listen. >> we'll see what the president has to propose. members on both sides of the aisle will review it, and then we'll decide how best to proceed. hopefully, there's still time for an agreement of some kind that saves the taxpayers from a wholly, wholly preventable economic crisis. mr. president, i yield the floor. >> the majority leader. >> i'm not sure my distinguished republican counterpart has followed what has tak...

0 concussion. reaction ahead. a house divided now that plan b has gone belly up. what now for the speaker? >> they weren't taking that out on me. they were dealing with the perception that someone might accuse them of raising taxing. merry christmas, everyone. >> merry christmas? really? are they leaving town with nothing accomplished? any moment now democrats will respond. nancy pelosi will have a news conference. we'll bring that live. newtown and the nation paused earlier today remembering the 26 souls who were lost exactly one week ago. president obama and his top advisors join the rem...

0 children. but where we stand out is the number of the number weapons. >> to your point video games, the culture, mental health issues and identifying what is truly a mental health issue that could turn into violence, certainly all things that we should explore but they are not exclusive to the united states. the one dynamic that is exclusive to the united states is that someone can own a gun that can mow down people in seconds. >> thought this was going be something different when they used the word contributions. i thought they would embrace universal background checks or get ahead of a ban...

♪ ouncer: broadcasting live from charlotte, north carolina the site of the democratic national convention, this is the "bill press show." live on your radio and on current tv. >> bill: here we are in charlotte, north carolina at the democratic national convention. this is the day three when president obama accepts the nomination. it has been a great convention so far and you know he's going to wrap it up. on the wings flying on the wings of bill clinton and a great speech last night. joining me here on ra...