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At the time found the majority of americans supported those measures. the lobbying effort began immediately. families of the newtown victims became a familiar sight on capitol hill. the gun industry, led by the powerful nra, countered with an equally intense effort. focusing on democrats in conservative states up for re-election in 2014. finally in april, a bipartisan deal on the scaled back measure to expand background checks, but in the democrat-controlled senate the bill fell short of the 60 votes needed for passage. >> the amendment is not agreed to. >> reporter: there's little appetite on...

Hillary's second term before you see real deficit reduction. walk us through some of the initial signs from our conservative friends. >> you wonder if they're going to give congressman labrador a hell no button he can press when he votes tomorrow. as a policy matter, this thing is a nothing burger, right? so it doesn't do a whole lot on the deficit, it doesn't do anything in terms of tax reform. doesn't do anything to entitlements. doesn't really fully replace the sequester. doesn't deal with unemployment. that's why nobody is happy. but you know what it does do, they agreed on something. and ...

Head start would be staying at home. how many more cancer research grant from top researchers nih would be denied. you can't start to estimate how harmful this would have been. the first year of sequester, you can find a certain amount of money under the cushion. you can delay things. but i think this year it would have hurt very deeply. not just national security but in things i think are very important to investment and education and research. so i can say very clearly, it's not perfect. i understand people's concerns. but is this a positive step forward for investing in the future, for equi...

The people who really are causing problems in our country and those are the democrats. and you have people like senator pryor from arkansas, senator landrieu from louisiana, who have been big supporters of obama care and big supporters of you losing your insurance of specifically being canceled under obama care. i rather direct our resources towards trying to take over republican majority than trying to eat our own. >> nevertheless, that appears to keep happening again and again. you get a signal of that today, senator, from speaker john boehner responding to a question about conservative crit...

Temperature plus the wind, you get the windchill. look at this, 47 degrees below normal at international falls. 25 degrees below normal in minneapolis. and it doesn't warm up at all. we are going to stick with that very, very cold arctic air across much of the north. and look at this, by the weekend, we will have our next system possibly impactinghe northeast. could see an icy mix, yes, even new rk city and boston. already, guys by this weekend. not much of a breather, yuck pipe don't know what to say, but thank you for the warning. >> all right. >> 36 minutes past the hour. a surprising act o...