up. what is the latest reaction from the house delaying the vote on that bill. reporter: another stormy day, jenna. there is a lot of anger among especially members who represent new york and new jersey. congressman peter king said this morning that he is distraught the house of representatives did not vote last night on this bill for aid for sandy victims in the affected areas. president obama just a few minutes before i walked out here to the lawn put out a paper statement that is urging the house to vote today on that bill it s a $64.4 billion bill that is packed with aid for residents of new york and new jersey and the affected areas, and that is another bill that passed the senate first last week. jenna: big meeting at 3:00pm with house leadership and some of the delegates from new york and new jersey. thank you. jon: let s bring in charlie hurt columnist with the washington times for more on the fiscal cliff deal. i know you have been scouring washington and looking for an adul
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$50 billion. had too much pork in it they thought. leaders called it a night last night without a sandy vote, leading republican peter king of new york to come on fox news today to accuse his own party stabbing people from the northeast in the back. why the republican party has this bias against new york, this bias against new jersey, this bias against the northeast. they wonder why they re becoming a minority party. why we re going to be party of permanent minority. what they did last night was so immoral, so disgraceful, so irresponsible. supposed to be the party of family values and families are starving, families are suffering. families spread all over, living in substandard housing. this was a disgrace. they are inexcusable and they have had it. as far as i m concerned i m on my own. they will have to go a long way to get my vote on anything. reporter: harsh words from congressman king, parter leader john boehner is committed to getting a sandy aid bill done this month. it wou
issa say bring it on, they were never going to vote for a bill they say is full of all kinds of pet projects that have nothing to do with those devastated by the superstorm. the fact is the senate didn t do their job. they sent us a bunch of pork and left town and that was just wrong and i think the speaker has the support of a vast majority of republicans. reporter: critics of the 60 billion dollar senate bill i was going to be broken into two separate house votes, a 27 billion dollar primary bill and a 33 billion dollar amendment to that bill was loaded with pork. they point to 600 million dollars for the epa to support climate change issues, 348 million dollars for the national park service, 188 million for amtrak, and 8 million dollars for new cars and equipment for the justice department and homeland security among other things. the supporters of the bill say house majority leader eric cantor was with him all along, still is, and they re pointing the finger of blame at speaker
not slowed down the latest attacks on the g.o.p. listen. everybody played by the rules, except tonight when the rug was pulled out from under us, absolutely inexcusable. indefensible, we have a moral obligation to hold this vote. mr. speaker, we cannot turn our backs on our citizens who need us. i have to go home and tell them their new years gift is that they re going to wait even longer, even longer for something they should have had over a month ago. ithis is an absolute disgrace and the speaker should hang his head in shame for not allowing this to come up. megyn: shannon bream is live in washington. that was democrats and republicans bashing the republican leadership for not allowing a vote on this bill, but they say they have a good reason for not doing so. tell us more. they do, well, megyn, house republicans who opposed the quick passage of that sandy aid bill are getting blasted from both sides of the aisle, but lawmakers like darrell
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