republican-backed bill that would cut the federal budget and cap future spending and add a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget. it was of on erred during president obama s debt increase in 2011. passed the house and died in the senate. harry reid said this, quote, i think this piece of legislation is as weak and senseless than anything that has come on the senate floor. i will not waste the senate s time day after day on this piece of legislation. this is a bad piece of legislation. perhaps it is some of the worst legislation in the history of this country. all right, the second time around in 2011 senator mike lie lie mike lee reintroduced the bill and it was referred to committee and it died. president obama threatened to veto the legislation if it got to his desk. if you have stories you want to hear more about or updates, something we haven t talked about, several ways to get in touch with us, tweet us at at
location. the eighth largest city in america and elected a democrat mayor, senate democrat congress taking on republican incumbent-29 against obamacare. 50-20 in faff of tieing in faff of tieing obamacare to funding. if you look at what is going on in places like san diego and vermont and connecticut where it has been public that this exchanging, this obamacare implementation is not going to work the way they said it would. the administration is having to kwan seed. it is not going to work. they amended it 19 times since the passage of obamacare. they changed, amended or rolled back something. is this the right time right now to make a difference? to stop something bad from happening? of course it is. it is congress responsibility when they see a public policy disaster about to unleash on the american people to stop it. that s what house republicans are trying to do. doug, you have to deal with the issue that one of the key democrat architects of this said it would be a train wrec
white house and another set of rules for hard working american families. i think we should be responding not to the giant corporations with the exemption president obama has put in place, but responding to the recent immigrant who is struggling and working hard to put food on the table for his family. we should listen to the single mom who is finding her hours reduced to 29 hours a week. isyou can t feed your kids on 29 hours a week. she got a lot of praise for her filibuster. and we will see what they have to say about that. go to fox news.com/anhq. well, it is a game of hot potato to some extent. neither the house nor the senate want to be holding the ball when the clock strikes midnight on a government shutdown.
senator reid called it pointless. there was a delay of 21 hours when ted cruz made the speech he made. he admits it can change things. but it changed the conversation and it has awakened the american people to what is really going on here. it gives you less time to deal with it in the house if this ping-pongs back to you. that s correct. there are several issues here. none of it is easy. being in the majority of the house we have the profound responsibility to govern. governing is difficult to do under normal circumstances, especially now with the polarized congress we have and really a polarized united states. the democrats are in a stronger position because they can sit back. they don t have to govern. they can play 100% politics. what do i mean by that? goodgoodgoverning is taking care of the people s business and funding government and moving forward. there are also ramifications. one of the problems is how do we deal with the very far right faction within our own
pointless as it passes the house and thoms back as it comes back to the senate and they say it will die another death. where do we go from here? i think it is unfortunate that at least so far harry reid has made the decision to compromise on nothing and fight on every front. he basically said he is willing to force a government shutdown in order to insist that obamacare be implemented against every american family. 24r are millions of americans who are hurting and losing their jobs and who are finding jobs and forced into part-time work and be forced into, woulding 29 hours a week because of obamacare. they are fogs sky rock qeting sky rocketing insurance preem premiums. what harry reid has said was he was not interested in hearing their pleas. he is not interested in responding to the harms. president obama has granted waivers for giant corporations and members of congress and here harry reid is saying he