principles, trying to show the gop is the party for big ideas. doing immigration reform in a common sense, step-by-step manner helps our members understand the bite-sized pieces and it helps our constituents build more confidence that what we re doing makes sense. the bill as amended is passed. that s a contrast from the senate which last year passed a massive bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform bill. while the senate provides a path to citizenship for the estimated 11 million illegals in this country, the house is expected to only offer them legal status. the house republican principles obtained by fox also include border security and interior enforcement must come first, implementation of an entry/exit visa tracking system, employment verification and workplace enforcement and reforming legal immigration so the best and brightest educated here can stay. it also says children of illegals brought here should be provided an opportunity for legal residence and cit
gerlach is the fourth moderate republican to announce retirement since november, joining john runyon of new jersey, tom latham of iowa, and frank wolf of va sprap join meg now nia malika henderson, political reporter for the washington post and sam stein, politics editor for the huffington post. and so nia ma lika, another republican would like to spend more time with his family and a lot less time on the house floor with those crazy tea partiers. we are seeing something of a trend here. i think the question is whether or not it continues into 2014. you saw at the end of 2013 john boehner himself get fed up with the tea party and also moderate republicans say that they needed to speak up more, that they needed to band together. they of course were against the actions around the government shutdown that were led by the far right of the party. so this is an interesting thing. and i think if you look at what democrats need to do come 2014
and nia, when this happens the tea partiers don t exactly stay quiet. in new jersey steve lon gann, who lost to cory booker in the senate campaign, has announced that he s running for that seat that is currently held by that retiring moderate in new jersey, jon runyan. so we may in some of these instances, you could conceivably end up replacing a moderate with a tea partier. maybe not in new jersey but some other ones. that s right. remember lonegan. he got some endorsements from the likes of sarah palin. rand paul. had some pretty disparaging things to say about cory booker
in new jersey steve lon gann, who lost to cory booker in the senate campaign, has announced that he s running for that seat that is currently held by that retiring moderate in new jersey, jon runyan. so we may in some of these instances, you could conceivably end up replacing a moderate with a tea partier. maybe not in new jersey but some other ones. that s right. remember lonegan. he got some endorsements from the likes of sarah palin. rand paul. had some pretty disparaging things to say about cory booker during that race. but we ll see what happens. i think the establishment part of the republican party very much wants to play it safe and put in candidates they think can help them maintain their lead in the house of representatives, if not expand it. so we ll see what happens there with that seat. i think also one of the things that you are seeing from moderate republicans is they have formed a super pact.
0 richard wolffee, this does highlight what for me is a republican phenomenon i ve watched many, many times, which is they get it if it happens to them. so the republican with the highest unemployment rate in the country in his state is the republican who gets this. and the others are immune to it. i don t think that s unique to nevada or anywhere else. you know, we had a great story at msnbc.com today about the kinds of choices these individuals are having to make. people who ve saved up for their pickup truck. people who are going to face selling their home today because they re not getting these benefits. and the economic impact of that. so republicans will say in general, when it s an abstract idea, people should just go and take whatever job s out there. but if you are long-term unemployed, so you ve got a college education, going to flip burgers does not help your long-term employment. you may get a job in the short run, but it makes it much harder to get a job that you re qu