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Years and to your credit, you have been jumping up and down about it. chairman miller, thanks for being here. >> thank you, megyn. >> so again, this week, congress took another run at trying to fix some of these problems at the va, trying to allow for greater accountability by allowing firings to be easier. the house yesterday passed the va management accountability act by a wide margin. a bill the white house has not said it will sign. and one that secretary shinseki said he opposed and when the senate took up a similar bill, this from senator rubio, democrat bernie sanders killed it. blaming...

You cannot fire a federal worker because the public sector union workers have made it impossible and so what is happening here is democrats are put in a position where they have to choose between two consit web sees, the public worker unions one of the single largest contributors to the democratic party. >> didn't seem to be a problem for those who voted overwhelmingly on this bill. >> the 33 that voted against it is a member of the democratic leadership. look, i'm speculating here but it may have been known that they could vote for this as a free vote because senator sanders is going to take ...

Have been jumping up and down about it. chairman miller, thanks for being here. >> thank you, megyn. >> so again, this week, congress took another run at trying to fix some of these problems at the va, trying to allow for greater accountability by allowing firings to be easier. the house yesterday passed the va management accountability act by a wide margin. a bill the white house has not said it will sign. and one that secretary shinseki said he opposed and when the senate took up a similar bill, this from senator rubio, democrat bernie sanders killed it. blaming the fact that he hadn't read ...

Changes. it goes beyond. senator sanders doesn't like this bill. he can't find time in his schedule to read two and a half pages but it goes beyond that, mark, because we out laid with chairman miller for years, for years they refused to take this seriously and it's not just president obama but the past six years have been on his watch. >> no, that's absolutely true. for senator -- congressman miller is a key solution, which is giving the cabinet secretary the power to fire incompetent workers responsible. if va workers and va senior executives were worried about getting fired, we wouldn't hav...

Because the public sector union workers have made it impossible and so what is happening here is democrats are put in a position where they have to choose between two consit web sees, the public worker unions one of the single largest contributors to the democratic party. >> didn't seem to be a problem for those who voted overwhelmingly on this bill. >> the 33 that voted against it is a member of the democratic leadership. look, i'm speculating here but it may have been known that they could vote for this as a free vote because senator sanders is going to take the bullet in the senate and kill...