wasn t in the coalition? would it hurt your cause to get a large vote? you bet. he s extremely important as senator schumer said, he s had great input, a lot of input into the language already. he s making the point now that we immediate to go through regular order which i certainly support, so he s extremely important to this effort. when you say regular order and i heard senator leahy, the senator of the judiciary committee, would have hearings. experiencive hearings. expanser hearings. there s been a criticism of some other republicans not involved in these negotiations. the fact is we just had two special interest groups negotiate part of this deal. no elected officials were involved in it. is that healthy for this process? well, i can tell you elected officials were involved in this. we were involved every step of the way but the point is, every senator has his own or her own franchise here, and we want to see this bill move through regular order. it will be amended in the
looks like they re striving to be the party of 10%. right. let s forget about that philosopher ted nugent for a second. because the president said in that chamber in the presence of multiple individuals who have either themselves been the victims of horrendous gun violence or relatives of theirs have too. he said they deserve a vote. you re a man in the house. is that ever going to happen? if it were, it would have to start in the senate first. the reason being pure politics. you have some democrats up for election in 2014 who come from red states. republicans want to force them to take a tough vote on anything before speaker boehner would make his gop do it on the other side. however, i do think there s an appetite. it s possible to have a bill move forward in the area of background checks. i don t think you ll see anything in regards to magazine clips or assault weapons ban. that ll run into a brick wall.
women who were brought into the country on mail order bride organizations. and then, basically, find out that the person that brought them into the country, for some grand idea of marriage, turned out to be, in one case, the woman was killed. so these are protections for prosecution to give these women, who are victims, the ability to testify in court and to make sure that they re there, as opposed to just letting the violence continue. so it does involve human trafficking, this part of the bill? that s terrible stuff. right, and you re bringing up another point. there was another bill that is caught in the same debate on human trafficking. and we want to see that bill move to do. well, amy, thank you. we re going to have another senator on. i want to thank you very much, senator cantwell, from washington state. susan collins is a republican from maine, of course, and a cosponsor of the bill. welcome, susan. thank you, senator, for coming on. what do you make of this the fight be
out to be, in one case, the woman was killed. so these are protections for prosecution to give these women, who are victims, the ability to testify in court and to make sure that they re there, as opposed to just letting the violence continue. so it does involve human trafficking, this part of the bill? that s terrible stuff. right, and you re bringing up another point. there was another bill that is caught in the same debate on human trafficking. and we want to see that bill move to do. well, amy, thank you. we re going to have another senator on. i want to thank you very much, senator cantwell, from washington state. susan collins is a republican from maine, of course, and a cosponsor of the bill. welcome, susan. thank you, senator, for coming on. what do you make of this the fight between the two parties on this? i know you re with the majority that wants to pass this bill, but what s the republican opposition about? well, first of all, i can t believe that this issue is bei
why the heats station hesitation from the left? it is about the election in 2012 and the conservative democrats from red states are up for re-election like senator jon tester, and ben nelson from nebraska and they want to distance themselves from the president. all republicans are expected to vote no, and this is not going to get 60 votes, it will not clear this hurdle and it will be difficult, then, for probe to blame house republicans for not acting on a bill that may not get 50 votes in the senate. but, the white house is clearly indicating they will try to stay on offense and, possibly, parts of this bill move in smaller pieces. how does that happen? guest: they will take out parts of it that have gotten some republican support like the payroll tax holiday and extension of that unemployment benefit. smaller pieces usually can move in congress when you talk about massive bills especially in a