happiness. reporter: his search led him to a website called pathway to happiness.com. it s a lot like online therapy, offering materials to read, podcasts, even audio and phone sessions, all aimed at helping people like byers get their life back on track. working with pathway to happiness has changed my life. i m going to be happy to me, with that being full and then the relationship is going to work because now i have something to give and something to truly offer. reporter: gary is the man behind pathwaytohappiness.com. he said his website gets a million hits a year, with a 20% uptick just after the holidays. and many people find him just by googling the word happiness. there s a lot of stress in the holidays that then people really feel and say i want to do something about this. it s the stress of being with family, it s the stress, like you said, of being alone. reporter: not a licensed
a lot of very positive changes here. and as you alluded to generally, it doesn t start until jan 1 so we don t know the positive stories yet. you ve been vocal about a couple of other things because of your intelligence committee work. i want to quickly take a little bit of a turn into the nsa for a second here. we ve had different court rulings. obviously you want the info to be staying with the phone companies and they have pushed back a little bit on that. what i want to know from you, because you re very involved nnls kind of stuff. we have the recommendations, we don t know what president obama is going to do. in 2014, will it be status quo? it won t be the status quo. i was encouraged that the task force was as strong in its recommendation as it was. it truly was independent. i think the administration will take that very seriously. they re not going to do everything the task force recommended but i do think we ll see restructuring of the metadata program not only because it
messaging on this. it s going to be very hard to push repeal of this bill now that there are so many people who are actually getting benefits from the bill. one of the reasons there was so much talk about repeal and stopping this thing and the government shutdown and everything that we went through was they had to sort of stop this bill before it became an active part of american life. and now it is part of american life, makes it much more difficult to go to people who are getting insurance for the first time and say we want to take that insurance away. so republicans are trying to build some kind of message they have of their own of some alternative, but that runs into the problem of in the gop itself, having their own problem working as a cohesive unit as a party. there s a lot of infighting going on, a lot of people on one side or the other. they need to resolve those problems. then maybe they can create an alternative health care plan and try to use that as an election cudgel. but
end of 2014. the cost to put long-term unemployment benefits back in place here about $19 billion a year. republicans say that s too much and without finding cults to balance it out they don t want to spend the money. pennsylvania democratic senator bob casey, member of the finance committee, joins us right now. senator, good day to you, and as we just were talking about this $19 billion, what are the prospects of finding that amount to offset the cost of extending those benefits for a year or even for a three-month extension? richard, i think we can find an juf set and we should. as you know, we went a lot of years in this country providing unemployment compensation without an offset. if that s what it takes to get it done, i think we can get that done. the key thing i think not only for families, those who are in need of emergency unemployment compensation, is to make sure that we put it in place for them and for their families but also
if you liked your plan, you can keep your plan, if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. a lot of doctors are not being carried over into these plans. and the costs are hitting home to the middle class. even if they get the enrollment, in all fairness to roll out a program like this is tremendous but the focus will most likely be on the negative, not the positive. i just think in general in the reporting. you re saying republicans will continue to push that note. chris, also on your list for 2014, immigration, that s number two. you say that s going to happen. you also predict a gop civil war. well, you know, immigration passed in senate, there will be some deal i think in terms of maybe a piecemeal approach. if that doesn t happen and the republicans cannot get their, you know, act together in terms of, you know, basically pushing forward some kind of immigration reform, the kwenlss for the republican party are pretty severe, especially focusing on