olympia snowe similarly had a reputation for a moderate and in february, she decided to retire and at the time she said, as i have long said what has long motivated me is to produce results for those who have entrusted me to be their champion and i m filled with that sense of responsibility today as my first day and now it is a my way or the highway ideology. does that ring true for you and part of your decision to leave congress? that rings true for both sides, certainly on the republican side, you will see it right in front of us everyday with the tea party faction and speaker boehner s inability to herd the cats that are in the house on the senate side where they have a similar dynamic as senator snowe has outlined and we do it in the democratic party in the house. i m a moderate member, and we are have purged most of the moderates from the democratic party. when i hear members of the
are going to help the country. i think that the american people are right to look at the output from the legislative standpoint saying that this congress could be doing a lot better. thank you, congressman altmeyer, and thank you for taking the time to chat with us about congress and what seems to be going on there. when we come back, we will come back to the table and ask if the 113th can do any better, because congress seems to be playing a game, but the consequences for americans are real. we will talk about that when we come back. droid dna augmentation initiated. vision expanding to a 5-inch 1080p hd display and camera. touch acquiring nfc. hearing evolving with beats audio. wireless charging activated. introducing droid dna by htc.
a bill in the house that extends the tax cuts for everybody, and gut that bill, because it has to emerge from there, and then fill it, and hope and pray that boehner can find 30 republicans to vote for it. that is the story that you feel when the president is saying that ordinary american citizens can not understand what is happening here and why we can t when there is such broad agreement that we don t want taxes to go up on households under $250 and social entitlements that we need there, and we can t get an agreement. stay there, everybody. i want to get truth out of one member of congress, and why? because he is leaving office in a few days, so i figured maybe he is going to give us some straight talk when we come back. hey sis, it s so great to see you. you, too! oh, cloudy glasses. you didn t have to come over! actually, honey, i think i did. oh? you did? whoa, ladies, easy. hi. cascade kitchen counselor. we can help avoid this with cascade complete pacs.
outside of washington, nobody uns how it is that this seems to be a repeat pattern over and over again. that was president late friday expressing a little bit of exasperation over the pace that congress has made in the fiscal negotiations. but this is nothing new for the men and women of the 112. the 112th members of congress is on the precipice of being the least productive since we started keeping track in 1947. they have passed only 219 bills into law making it 100 bills behind the 104th congress who until now has been the most do-nothing of the do-nothing congress congresses. with this, it is no problem to predict the answer to howie mandel s question, no deal. soon to be ex-congressman jason
since we started keeping track of this in 1947 and when nancy pelosi was speaker of the house, the 110th congress had roll call votes, over 1,000 roll call votes, and with speaker boehner, only 444 roll call votes leading to 219 pieces of legislation. should the american people feel as though you all are simply not doing your jobs? the answer to that question is yes, i think that the american people have a right to be skeptical of the work being done in washington. part of that is the political dynamic. i don t know if i would just count the number of votes. we are not commemorating sports teams and honoring, you know, naming the weeks and the days after which ef vegetable we choose for this week, and national tomato month. but that is something that we don t do in this congress so that the number of votes is going to be a lot less, but the productivity is going to be based on doing what is right for the american people, and doing big things and doing things that