hurricane sandy. how do the residents in your district react, sir, when they hear that republicans like tom coburn, who voted against a single cent of funding coming to new york, yet come here to the city to raise money for their own campaigns. i think they probably have the same reaction i would, martin. in other words, we welcome them to new york. new york is a welcoming city. but you know what, we would like them to go to staten island, the rock aways, go to long island. see the damage done from sandy that s not repaired yet, that lives are still overturned. they re not back together get. and when a disaster struck their state, i didn t say, well, they didn t help us. therefore i m not going to help them. i don t believe america should ever turn its back, congress should never turn its back on suffering americans. that s what they did when new york and new jersey and connecticut and pennsylvania were suffering. but martin, it s important to note, we didn t do the same thing to col
disobedience. it was congressman al green who was arrested first, followed by congressman joe crowley, then congressman john lewis was arrested. you can see him there. the congresswoman from illinois was arrested. then keith ellison then charlie wrangle there. and then congresswoman luis gutierrez. all of them got handcuffed and led away today under arrest at this protest. politics have survived the government shutdown. there was fury and anger and multiple arrests over what the congress is not doing as they struggle to try to get things back open. but there was also widespread fury across the country over some things that the government
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members of congress submitted peacefully to the police to be arrested in an act of civil disobedienc disobedience. it was congressman al green who was arrested first, followed by congressman joe crowley, then congressman john lewis was arrested. you can see him there. the congresswoman from illinois was arrested. then keith ellison then charlie wrangle there. and then congresswoman luis gu tier rest. all of them got handcuffed and led away today under arrest at this protest. politics have survived the government shutdown. there was fury and anger and multiple arrests over what the congress is not doing as they struggle to try to get things back open. but there was also widespread fury across the country over some things that the government usually does that they have stopped doing right now because of the government shutdown. the interview tonight is somebody who s here live in
most people would assume that the chief whip of the house republicans would be a good mathematician, and an excellent counter of votes. and so with that in mind, just listen to how california s kevin mccarthy described today s vote to defund the affordable care act. a vote which, i might add, attracted a grand total of two, yes one, two democrats, to a united gop front. today when we acted, it wasn t just a group of republicans, but it was a bipartisan vote. let me state that again, because i want to make sure you write it correctly. it was a bipartisan vote. because we re americans. joining us now is democratic congressman joe crowley of new york. good afternoon, sir.