Page 37 - Working Majority News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Issue issue? >> it's hard to measure. the one thing we know for sure is there's maybe 70 or so, 60 or 70 hardcore ideologues. the rest could go either way. 28 of them basically went with us because the speaker knew he had to deliver those votes, but from what we've seen in the past, you know, there's i think a working majority between the democrats and i think still a majority of republicans, but it's a weak majority. it's a majority that's afraid of their own districts of afraid of interest groups, but if they were to sit at home and examine their own conscience, a majority would have been wi...

Doesn't he in fact have a solid working majority of the senate and couldn't they start from there trying to be positive about dealing with the congress? >> the arithmetic is simple, 5 democrats, it takes 60 to get things done. there's 45 republican, it takes 15 more democrats to work with the republicans. we have to work together. joe and i understand that. maybe we should have had both democrats and republicans at the white house having a martini together. >> there are a lot of bills that senator manchin and i co-sponsor. we can start with some of those. but look, he's going to talk tomorrow ...

Percent. we go into the fourth quarter weaker than we wanted, and that is an important part of the year, holiday spending. number two, federal reserve tapering probably off the table for 2013. probably off the table for much of 2014. we take the brunt of this economic slowdown. >> i don't think the era is over. john boehner does not have a working majority without 30 or 40 of those hard-liners who are not challenged in their own district. i do think, though, they've learned a lesson that they have to work together. there were some grown-ups involved that are going to talk about a one-year budg...

gripping a huge part of the country right now. hot and hotter. that's what the national weather service says that we can expect for the next several days, and you need it know this. at least 16 states under heat advisories or warnings today. adding to the misery, nearly 2 million people without electricity in the d.c. area and surrounding states. deadly storms battered that area over the weekend killing at least 16 people. our brian todd is outside in that heat in the d.c. suburb of wheaton, maryland. brian, what's the biggest problems you're seeing right now? >> reporter: right now ...

Realize that if production is separated from innovation, that we're not going to be inventing the next great thing necessarily, the more people will come to manufacturing. i think we can overcome that. the china currency vote is the perfect example. i think a lot of new members of congress influenced by the tear party uchbds that manufacturing in america goes hand in hand, and i think they can stand up to the interests. i know a lot of democrats are prepared to do it. i think we have a solid working majority to pass a pro-manufacturing agenda if we can break those shackles. >> heck, let's just...