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But i promise you when we get a republicans president in 2016. we'll control the house and senate and things will be done through committee process because that's the way it should be done. bill: you are part of the doctor's caucus. in the minute i have left. give me a sense of how this law is being enacted and how it's rolling out. what the president would argue is millions of people are seeing the benefits of it. if they are where do you find them. >> 3 million -- at this point in time it would be 7 million. the president of course made all these changes. 18 to date, the ones he wants to cha...

Again since it was close this time. >> one thing just very quick. senator corker was one of the moderate players in this. there were tennessee state legislators who came forward and said, boy, if they vote for the union, we may have a hard time continuing get benefits to this plant and you're thinking, wow, that's -- that's getting to the level of saying you will use the power of the state to -- people who want to -- >> that's oppressive. >> caton, is there any discomfort -- you talk about raise the minimum wage. the argument, that may not be good for your future, we may not build the plant he...

Constructive movement. i thought it was very interesting yesterday when congressman paul ryan wrote an op-ed in "the wall street journal" in which he basically said to the president, mr. president, we're in essence willing to raid the debt ceiling now if there is a -- if there are long-term spending reductions in entitlement spending, which is what's eating our lunch when it comes to the deficit. its going to get simply worse. and, mr. president, there are some areas where we can find agreement. what about means testing weltier seniors? warren buffett ought to be paying more than a working sti...

Active payroll cards worth $34 billion. it's easy to see how the fees on billions of dollars can easily reach the hundreds of millions up to a billion dollars or more per year. everybody is making money off of it, except the low wage hourly employee who is losing money from the deal. sometimes so much so they are effectively reduced to sub minimum wage according to advocates and state and federal regulators. this heinous practice persists. there are three parties, the employee, the employer and the bank. and two of those three are making money off the deal, but not the working stiff. not all h...

Not the working stiff. not all hope is lost. there is the case of natalie gunshannon who made $7.44 an hour. she had no choice but to use the payroll card, she quit and sued. just this week, the owner of the mcdonald's franchise changed their policy to offer direct deposit and paper checks. there is eric schneider man, a gift of the show, who sent letters to 20 employers, requesting information about the practice. we're concerned about excessive or insufficiently disclosed fees which may unduly reduce employee's take home pay. the question is whether these fees, particularly when there is no c...