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And on that basis i don t think there is any question we re better off with what passed. jenna: eight senators voted no. senator mike lee, republican from utah is one of them. he joins us now. senator lee your response to senator corker? well, what we did in passing this bill was preserve the vast overwhelmingly majority of a totally dysfunctional system, a system goten us $16 trillion in debt and a trillion dollars in additional debt every single year with our deficit. jenna: and so you think we re not better off having passed it? i think we re not better off. everything about this bill was a failure. what congress did, how congress did it and what congress didn t do. you need no look further than the fact we were giving a total of six minutes to read this bill before we had to vote on it. not one single senator who voted for it had read it. i find that unacceptable. jenna: how do you change ....
The rules of the senate has been floating around there. what we re hearing now is that reid is working with mcconnell to make slight changes and that they re working together, that it is a at least now a bipartisan effort to try to fast track some efforts in the senate and not make sweeping changes that we heard of originally. if the senate truly started and it has no rules, 51 is all that s necessary, but 60 is the filibuster threshold. that s the vote that you have to get to currently is 60 votes. 51 is, of course, the simple majority. and that s to get a bill to the floor, they re trying to change how to move the process forward along faster. right now there are talks between mcconnell and reid ....
The president did something similar last year in 2012 when he bypassed congress and allowed young illegal immigrants brought here as children by their parents to stay here in the u.s. if they met certain qualifications. jenna. jenna: more on the story as we get it, molly. thank you. jon: lots of outrage from new york-area lawmakers pushing the house to hold a vote on aid for superstorm sandy victims bill. house speaker john boehner scheduling one vote for friday on some of the money and another later in the month for the rest of the funding. the move comes after widespread anger over his decision to cancel action onefof the last congress. it would have sent billions of dollars in aid to help with relief after superstorm sandy. let s talk about it with angela mcglowan. she is a fox news political analyst. what did the speaker do here? he incited the ire of many even within his own conference by shelving that bill until the new conference, the new congress ....
Better term putting wrong people in office, people that would vote yes on a bill rather than vote no. is it our fault. i wouldn t say it is the fault of american people and they will blame them for mistakes by a handful of people here. jenna: who is accountable? is it lawmakers themselves? i think lawmakers themselves need to stand accountable to voters that put them there and voters who they will have to answer the next few years, to say look, why did did you this? now this is becoming more after problem i think there will be more accountability and i think you will see more members of both houses of congress, in both political parties voting no when faced with something like this. jenna: you re a new member to congress. couple years ago you were a regular guy if you will, like the rest of us, voting to put people in office. we know the president has another four years. we re getting some new members of congress. some new members as well to the senate. how are you in the next seve ....
Two vacancies. this should be a slam dunk for john boehner. he has no challenger among the republicans. there has not been a second vote for the speakership since 1923. but there have been some comments from some conservative house republicans, some tea party members about boehner s handling of the fiscal cliff negotiations with the president, about his handling of in this vote on the hurricane sandy relief bill. a few republicans actually coming out and saying they might not vote for john boehner as speaker. not vote for nancy pelosi, but they might abstain. and we ve heard some conservative tea party groups actually calling for john boehner to step down. so with 233 republicans, boehner can afford to lose just 17 of them on this vote, and, you know, we can tell you that there are a lot more than 17 who opposed his plan b proposal two weeks ago that would have raised taxes on millionaires. he had to pull that after 40 or 50 anti-tax conservatives ....