jason: here s the problem. the first boats, what people need to realize, the very first vote is a motion to proceed. should they actually debate thi this? harris: it will die right there. jason: i don t know how any senator can justify voting no, you can offer amendments and do other things to adjust the bill. the reason they are slamming it in and between september is by law they were supposed to pass a budget by april 15th. they have not passed the budget, when you do not pass the budget, you cannot use the reconciliation tool. that tool allows you to only get 50 votes, so that expires at the end of september. then they have to get to the 60 vote threshold, but if they would ve passed it when they were supposed to, and we would not have had anything harris: only seven years after, now seven and a half. lisa: it is pretty ridiculous but i think the republican party made a fatal error in not leaving off the gate with the bill ready to go. there is a vacuum for the
we don t have a budget. they haven t had a budget conference between the house and senate. they ve been heralding the fact they passed a budget in the house and senate. they don t have a budget conference, not conferring over the differences. the law was to pass a budget by april 15th. that s come and gone. april 15th, by the way, when we re filing our taxes. for four years, the senate didn t even have a budget, the government doesn t have a budget. those are failures that people understand and goes to the heart of the distrust. and you add the overweight of these episodes and these problems that exist whether it s benghazi, irs or the a.p. issue with the justice department and it s breathtaking. you re already dealing with a discouraged electorate for sure. former senator olympia snowe, thank you so much. thank you, mika. little depressing. yeah. come on, now. you can do it.
provision that with holds member s pay if they fail to pass a budget by april 15th. president obama s popularity is on the rise. a washington post poll found his favorability rating at 60%. that s a three-year high. 37% had an unfavorable view. david visitor is dismissing a bipartisan proposal on immigration reform. and vitter went after florida senator marco rubio calling him amazingly naive to believe the plan would not amount to amnesty. lamar alexander of tennessee talked to chuck todd on the daily rundown about gun control and video games. take a listen. i think video games is a bigger problem than guns because video games affect people. but the first amendment limits what we can do about video games. the second amendment to the constitution limits what we can do about guns. senator john mccain appeared
approve the no budget, no pay act this week as part of the debt ceiling bill. the legislation would require both the house and senate to set a budget by april 15th or members will not get paid. the house passed the measure with bipartisan support last week. i m joined now by david walker, president of the come back america initiative and cofounder of the no labels movement, which originally proposed the no budget, no pay idea. good to see you. good morning. good to be with you. so you ve pushed this no budget, no pay act since 2011, and now that it could pass this week, explain what you hope to accomplish. we hope to accomplish for the first time in four years, where the house, the senate, and the president will all have budgets on the table, which hopefully will facilitate a more honest and full discussion and debate about what do we need to do to put the finances of this country in order, because they re poor and deteriorating. do you think that people are surprised to learn
how much spending, how much debt we re going to be able to have and get by and do. and so that is really, really critical, and that process has been gone for four years. we are stumbling from crisis to crisis, secret meeting after secret meeting and secret group after secret group, it has not worked. we ned a public discussion. then we layout how much we re going to spend and how much we are going to tax. bill: doesn t the law say that you have to have a budget? bill, it explicitly in the united states code passed in 1974 the senate and the house should pass a budget by april 15th. it should be in the committee marked up by april 1st. those have not been done. and it s just been a direct violation of law. and i ve been as you know a big critic of that. it s unthinkable. bill: from new york i ve heard you loud and clear. one more think quickly, jack lew treasury secretary.