it was called in question on climate change and mostly due to a tact in slow economy it s hard to raise the inventory burden. i think the politics on tax increase changed so much three months ago that would have been unimaginable, the republicans could get enough democrats possibly to reserve the so-called bush tax cuts, the current tax law for at least a year maybe two years against wishes of president obama or reid. i think we have big fight. republicans are now comfortable saying in this economy we can t raise taxes and the fed chairman said that. bret: a.b., the democrats came down to numbers and the senator who took seat of late robert byrd, carte goodwin, he talked about policy and only talked about i m voting against climate change. there was the 60th vote for senator reid. they have the numbers. it s a math game and they
hour, president obama holds a joint nudews conference with british president david cameron. and joe biden presides over the senate swearing in ceremony for cart goodwin. and later tonight, first lady michelle obama throws out the ceremonial first pitch before the start of the game between the baltimore orioles and the tampa bay rays. be right back.
important unemployment benefits bill they want to give to their con stitch wents. you can see that the senator is going to the floor to break the joining with all the democrats minus ben nelson from nebraska who s against this. and it should get the procedural process out, they should have final passage later this afternoon, and they re also going to see this bill out of the house of representatives tomorrow and then have the president sign it tomorrow evening with the idea of states being able to dole out unemployment benefits on thursday morning, that s utlimate goal of the democrats. why is this important? the president will tell you 2.5 million people are out of work. the unemployment rate has been over 7% six times since 2008. the republicans say it will balloon the deficit. that being said, the democrats are saying, we re okay, we ll take a chance on this because we
lawsuit lautenberg are going to call for more calls for investigation. you must have played tackle or something for the miami dolphins you have dodged all of these reporters walking in. you have more moves than reggie bush scrambling through there. i ve got my partner in crime here rodney baton who s just guiding me, i would call him my offensive coordinator, he s got the play calls, and we re moving it around. in the end, all of the other reporters move out of your way. murphy s law. moments ago on the senate floor, cart goodwin was sworn in as a senator. he temporarily fills the open seat of senator robert byrd who died last month. governor joe manchin announced
think people definitely need this income to survive in their daily lives. as you point out and a big and very important vote for those 2.5 million people. the senate judiciary commission has voted 13-6 to approve elena kagan s nomination. just one republican senator lindsay graham of south carolina joined the democrats in supporting the president s nominee, the ranking republican member on the judiciary committee, senator jeff sessions complained why he voted against kagan. i believe and i think the american people understand that we re likely to get a nominee who will not be the objective, impartial, arbiter and settler of disputes but someone who will use the opportunity to redefine words and advance an agenda. senator sessions said he was troubled by elena kagan s deeply