republican from virginia. you represent virginia beach and other big places down in virginia. you ve got skin in the game. absolutely. what do you think about this going to war with no vote? they had a little vote over on the senate foreign relations committee. it went 15-3, apparently it s not coming to the floor. i applaud senator murphy. i thought the way he articulated is wise. i introduced and the house passed last week an amendment to the national defense authorization act that made clear that the precedent being set by the administration and chris, i think what happened in libya is instructive to us. we launched 221 cruise missiles and over 7 hundred jdam munitions into libya. that didn t rise to the level of triggering the war powers act? i mean, what level of force must we exert before that should be in play? what do the people think? the people. i look at this poll we ve got
president and vice president biden were asked about this at separate events about a half a mile apart from each other and about ten minutes apart timewise. if you might not surprise you to learn that vice president biden was eager to take up the tea party comparison, volunteered it at a symposium that was moderated by david gregory of meet the press. . vice president biden says there s a lot in common with the tea party and martin, if you go back to september 29, 2008, the day that the tarp vote went down in congress bringing the stock market some 7 hundred points, who voted against tarp? who said it was a bailout for banks? it was both end of the political spectrum. it was populous on the right and populous on the left. genesis of the tea party on the right were throughout the political spectrum, they would argue and liberals on the left who said the taxpayers should not be bailing out wall street. and now you re seeing that again today. the president took the opportunity, while not
approach to it. shannon: we know the irs has the power to do it. they can ax them. we are talking about 1,275,000 employees out there on the government payroll. hundreds of them on congressional staff, 50 of them, i understand, in the executive office of the president? we have nearly 7 hundred people working on capitol hill that work in the house and senate that fall into the category called serious delinquent tax debt. that is they are not just behind in their parents they have gotten into the category that says the irs says this is serious tax debt. and the bill says, look, if you are trying to get out of this hole. if you are having your wages garnished and you are trying to do your best, we are not going to fire you. but if you are truly one of those people who are avoiding at all costs all of your taxes, then why should you be on the federal payroll. it s a privilege to be there and we have got too many good people who are honest people and that s who we are trying to prioriti