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18% of americans approved a joint proposal. democratic senator tom harkin of iowa, and george miller of california. to raise the national minimum wage to $10.10. now, raising the minimum wage is a theme barack obama has been sounding since 2007. most recently in the state of the union address in february, when we proposed boosting the minimum wage, restoring it in real terms to its 1979 level. which still isn't enough. using today's adjusted for inflation it would be 10.50 not 7.25. over the years, minimum wage has not kept pace with inflation. which means today's workers aren't getting as muc...

At one level it's encouraging, and i thought actually, i thought the debate on the house that michele bachmann jihad mongering aside, was relevant. it was engaging on both sides of the possible drawbacks. what does it say to you where the politics of this issue are where this happened tonight? >> the politics have broken completely apart. party labels don't really matter on an issue of civil liberties on an issue of the fourth amendment. that probably makes official washington quite scared. a lot of people in the building behind me right now are very nervous about the idea that we're going to ...

Our lives. and that's the way it is. >> the gentleman's time has expired. >> give it to them straight. the amendment to block the nsa's bulk collection of phone records failed. it failed by just 12 votes tonight. the simple fact that it got a vote is amazing. countless reasons to believe it would die and be buried without any kind of official debate, much less an official vote. if you're sitting at home trying to figure out where youen stand, allow me to give you this taste of where michele bachmann stands. >> the only people who have benefited from the revelation of classified information, by...

And i think it's interesting because we talk about how topsy-turvy the politics of this get with civil liberties. the progressive base of the democratic party in the house is basically where you would think they would be. where i personally would want them to be. >> yeah, i think that's right. and i think that that's encouraging in the sense that those democrats voted against their own president. and i think that's encouraging that we're seeing some distance between house members and the white house on an issue of civil liberties where you're seeing the house members and the democratic caucus ...

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