third voice was boulder, colorado because colorado isn t even holding a primary in this presidential election, not a caucus, not a primary, nothing. colorado is opting out of the process of choosing the republican nominee this year. they are the only state in the union that has just decided that they are not going to take part in picking the republican presidential nominee. so obvious place for a republican presidential debate then, in front of an audience that has no stake in the race whatsoever? sure. that was the third one. fourth republican debate this year was in milwaukee, wisconsin, which, you know, wisconsin frankly hasn t been that much of a presidential swing state recently. it, therefore, didn t make all that much sense as a venue for the fourth debate, except for the fact that the chairman of the rnc is from wisconsin and wisconsin governor scott walker was expected by many republican insiders to be the likely front-runner by that time in the race. in fact, by the
in picking the republican presidential nominee. so obvious place for a republican presidential debate then, in front of an audience that has no stake in the race whatsoever? sure. that was the third one. fourth republican debate this year was in milwaukee, wisconsin, which, you know, wisconsin frankly hasn t been that much of a presidential swing state recently. it, therefore, didn t make all that much sense as a venue for the fourth debate, except for the fact that the chairman of the rnc is from wisconsin and wisconsin governor scott walker was expected by many republican insiders to be the likely front-runner by that time in the race. in fact, by the time that milwaukee debate rolled around, scott walker had already quit running for president weeks earlier. so the most interesting question heading into the milwaukee debate sort of ended up being whether scott walker with stay home because it would be weird that he wasn t participating or whether he showed up and watched fr
it s the polar opposite of ohio in that sense. but it s also where the reagan library is. so they put the second debate there at the reagan library so the candidates could all stand in front of ronald reagan s big plane, his air force i and cnn kept them sweating, stands there for more than three hours in what was 100 degree heat. third voice was boulder, colorado because colorado isn t even holding a primary in this presidential election, not a caucus, not a primary, nothing. colorado is opting out of the process of choosing the republican nominee this year. they are the only state in the union that has just decided that they are not going to take part in picking the republican presidential nominee. so obvious place for a republican presidential debate then, in front of an audience that has no stake in the race whatsoever? sure. that was the third one. fourth republican debate this year was in milwaukee, wisconsin, which, you know, wisconsin frankly hasn t been that much of
done. it s not that this thing doesn t have support. you need 218 votes to pass something in the house. this has 266 co-sponsors. 75 of whom are republican. it only needs to get brought out for a vote. it just needs to be the leadership saying let s vote on it. in the meantime people like ray pfeiffer are still collecting prayer cards waiting for congress to act. joining us now is dan moynihan, 9/11 first responder. and along with others he s been trying to get this bill passed. thank you for coming. thank you for having me on. we have had statement from paul ryan saying it ll happen, we give our word, we ve committed to doing it, we re not saying how we re doing it yet. right. how does that make you feel? the leadership has made promises to attach this bill to whatever is moving at the end of the year. i do take them at their word. i feel like they awe are very, close. i do we think we re going to ge
now there are rumblings that it could be included in a comprehensive spending bill that s expected to come up next week. this is a bill that if they pass it it would permanently extend these health benefits for first responders so they stop having to go to capitol hill begging every few years. well, tonight we reached out to speaker paul ryan s office for confirmation as to whether or not this thing is ever going to get a freaking vote. a member of his office responded with this. speaker ryan has committed to reauthorize the program, and he will keep his word. we expect it will be included in one of the year-end legislative items. we have not stated what vehicle at this point, but it ll get done. it s not that this thing doesn t have support. you need 218 votes to pass something in the house. this has 266 co-sponsors. 75 of whom are republican. it only needs to get brought out for a vote. it just needs to be the leadership saying let s vote on it. in the meantime people like ray pfei