Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100715:05:25:00
And it would have passed if not for the vacancy in senator byrd's seat. so generally speaking, democrats have been pretty together on this. nelson is saying you need to pay for the unemployment insurance using unspent stimulus funds, which the analogy i've used on your show before is sort of bailing water from one part of the boat into another. what nelson would do is take stimulus and make it into relief. there's an argument for doing that if you think the economy doesn't need more stimulus. you can make the point. the point that you can't argue is that if you care about the deficit, as nelso...