president biden signalled he might be open to them, democrats in congress revolted. they aren t fair, and they don t work, dems argued. republicans say they are fair and that it is only responsible to have a baseline standard for who can receive government benefits like medicaid, that a requirement to work would motivate people to work. a hand up, not a hand out, says speaker kevin mccarthy. so how does a work requirement function in actuality? we ve got one of my favorite policy wonks with us to explain because it is a tricky issue. one that could sink a deal, and in light of that, a number of democrats are coming up with a plan b. there s one in the house to force a floor vote on the debt, over the objections of gop leadership if need be, and another being floated in the senate to negate a vote entirely. president biden, you have the authority all on your own, they say. one of those senators joins us to explain why. but first, let s get to the reporting and the policy. join
president biden signalled he might be open to them, democrats in congress revolted. they aren t fair, and they don t work, dems argued. republicans say they are fair and that it is only responsible to have a baseline standard for who can receive government benefits like medicaid, that a requirement to work would motivate people to work. a hand up, not a hand out, says speaker kevin mccarthy. so how does a work requirement function in actuality? we ve got one of my favorite policy wonks with us to explain because it is a tricky issue. one that could sink a deal, and in light of that, a number of democrats are coming up with a plan b. there s one in the house to force a floor vote on the debt, over the objections of gop leadership if need be, and another being floated in the senate to negate a vote entirely. president biden, you have the authority all on your own, they say.
laws. and this is the only bill pending that can do that. that is what is so important. and, again, this is a baseline standard of voting access for all americans. everyone. republican, democrat. it doesn t matter your political affiliation. but that is critical right now. and that is what this bill would do and what is at stake. let s talk about the gop reasons for voting against this. you say there s a lot of misinformation out there. you touched on this. one of the arguments we hear from senate republicans is hr-1 is just a partisan democratic power grab. what s your response to that? well, thanks for asking me that. i mean, look, as i said, this bill will benefit everyone. and the policies that it represents, you know, a national standard for early voting. vote by mail. those were passed in the state by republicans. and republican voters have used the ways of voting for decades. so i really just think that s that doesn t have any
well, it s a baseline standard, and having the ability to have continuously revolving loop of recordings will probably give you most of the information that you need to obtain if you re going to be doing an accident investigation. and to kind of shift towards what steven was describing before, i think you have to put things in perspective. right now there s probably upwards of 50,000 commercial flights airborne right now. 99.99% of those flights are being operated very professionally by those flight deck crews and i think that we what we need to do is strike a balance between need to obtain important data regarding the performance of the aircraft but also give the pilot the ability to do the job they are tasked with and you always have to have the ability to isolate sort of assistance on the airplane. i think once we get to the root of what happens with this malaysian flight we ll have more clarity on what that balance is. congressman, as you look at