that will lower costs protect consumers and increase accessibility while allowing americans to control their own healthcare decisions. reporter: at least three democrats are expected to join with republicans in favor of repeal. dan borne from oklahoma and mike mcintyre from north carolina. this is a very tough vote. for top democrats in the house they say this whole effort is a huge waste of time. this healthcare bill creates $4 million jobs. but there are many other job initiatives in congress that they have obstructed. let s stop this legislation to nowhere that they have on the floor today. let s get with building a new initiative for job creation.
they looked at the years from 2005 through 2011. they started with the number usually cited by unions based on filings that they have to make with the federal election commission, which is $1.1 billion in political spending, that was the number believed to have been exhausted by them. but the journal uncovered an additional $3.3 billion based on additional documents that unions had to file, bringing the total amount of union political spending to $4.4 billion. that is practically a billion bucks a year in between election cycles, presidential election cycles. joining me for a fair and balance debate. dan skwrers stein and ben ferguson host of the ben ferguson show. that is a lot of change, 4 hoeupb 4 billion. the question is whether that says something about union power versus pack power, corporation power that the left has had a real issue with in the past.