bring it up, so that essentially stops the refugee inflow into this country from the syrians, because until three directors of three different agencies can certify that the people we let in are safe. that is a commonsense bill, and it was passed with bipartisan support, and it is meaningful, and it s important. the president needs to recognize that this is a unique circumstance. i had haitian refugees come when i was governor to my state. we never had to worry about whether embedded in those people that were seeking, you know, freedom, because of the conditions in haiti we know isis is trying to bring in the bad guys with the good people? yeah. in this case, in haiti there was never that circumstance. now we have it, we have to reflect our policies have to reflect that reality. even with haiti, there are tens of millions of americans out of work. people literally living on the streets in our major cities. what would you say to them? how will bringing in refugees improve the
there s about 70%, 80% overlap between the parties. we re not like some countries that where you actually have a socialist party on one hand and an ultra conservative party on the other hand. most of the time we re playing between the 40 yard line here. so my argument to boehner and mcconnell and everybody else out there is, let s go ahead and have big arguments on the things we disagree about but why don t we go ahead and work on the things that we do agree about and a classic example is immigration reform. we know that the majority of the american people think the system s broken. we now have a vote out of the senate, both democrats and republicans voting for a commonsense bill that would strengthen our borders, that would fix the legal immigration system and make it easier for talent to come here and work hard and become part of america. and that would hold companies accountable when they are hiring
it s not too late. the kelly ayottes of the world should change their vote. we should try to get a revote here and try to get this thing passed. because as you said, imagine the next tragedy and imagine if that person got a gun at a gun show and that person wouldn t have gotten it had they applied through a universal background check. imagine the blood on the hands of the people who voted against this commonsense bill. yeah. and just the point you re making, the nra is implicitly telling people who have a problem with their background and know it, go to a gun show. that s right. if you have a problem, it s like a credit rating. we ll sell you the car without a rating. go ahead. joy, last word. you re absolutely right. the worst case scenario for kelly ayotte, jeff flake, ron johnson of wisconsin is to have this come up over and over again. they think they are safe because it s in 2016. that s a presidential year. they are in jeopardy anyway. you have a lot of democrats that w
anything. doesn t fix the fact that it includes about $600 billion in tax increases in the first economy in 30 years. it provides public funding for abortion for the first time in american history. we need to repeal this law and start over. we could have given the american people a more commonsense bill. if you would wanted to have passed health care reforms to ensure kids are on the health plans until the age 25 you could have done so in a bipartisan fashion. actually, it was bipartisan yesterday on the house floor. it was bipartisan in opposition because 32 democrats actually said you know what? we ll have to be on the republican side on this. so it was party line on the democrat side. it was bipartisan on the opposition. final vote was 220-207. can somebody tell me why is why are college student loans in a health care bill?
commonsense bill. if you had wanted to pass reforms to ensure coverage for americans with pre-existing conditions and ensure that patients can keep children on their health plans, you could have done so in a bipartisan fashion. the issues will be front and center be in play by october in time for the november elections. right and the president will probably sign it officially into law. the fix it or improvement bill as they now call it sometime next week. in the meantime, some lawmakers are being targeted after voting no on health care. both democrats and republicans have become victims of vandalism and even death threats. ohio congresswoman jean schmidt got this message on her voicemail. yeah, i m glad the president passed health care. yeah. [beep] laces up republicans hate that, don t you? jean schmidt, when you get hit by that car or whatever, you should have broke your back.