quickly, two other points here. will a republican majority change that number? well, i think that is going to be the big test. they have the materials there to do that. 130 democrats voted with republicans on a republican bill to stop junk lawsuits in patent cases. important to high-tech. 53 democrats voted to make it permanent that small business could immediately expense purchases of software and equipment. that is a good thing. 62 democrats voted in the house with republicans to make the research and development tax credit permanent. 32 and 36 democrats voted to make i had easier to invest in small business, ban taxes on internet access, government more transparent in rule making, stop epa regulating streams, ponds and ditches as navigable waters. bill: on keystone, look at this, 68% support it. two questions on this. is this mcconnell s first act in the senate? and remember, he said in late
junk lawsuits. hate them. as it happens, there are many, many areas in which the president has almost certainly overreached his executive authority. this is an administration that just argued in a heavily redacted memo released to the public, the legal right to kill an american citizen without trial. administration has defended the sweeping bulk surveillance of its own citizens, both without warrant and without specific indications of suspicion of those who are caught up in the drag net. this lawsuit, the one that is forthcoming apparently from john boehner, almost certainly won t be about any of that. no, this has more to do with moves like drafting an executive order requiring private firms that get government contracts not to fire people because they re gay. and that after congress refused to take action on the same issue. that, my friends, that is a sort of tyranny republicans appear to want to go to court to stop. joining me now, dahlia lithwick, senior editor at slate.com where
spent years and years wailing against this sort of thing. we have an opportunity to stop frivolous lawsuits. we, we have frivolous lawsuits. excessive and frivolous lawsuits. paralyzing and frivolous lawsuits. vicious cycle of frivolous lawsuits. coming from two lawyers, i can tell you we need to cut down the frivolous lawsuits. or ending the junk lawsuits. ending junk lawsuits. we get rid of the junk lawsuits. we need to do something about junk lawsuits. let s get rid of junk lawsuits. number four, end junk lawsuits. junk lawsuits. hate them. as it happens, there are many, many areas in which the president has almost certainly overreached his executive authority. this is an administration that just argued in a heavily redacted memo released to the public, the legal right to kill an american citizen without trial. administration has defended the sweeping bulk surveillance of its own citizens, both without warrant and without specific indications of suspicion of those
groups to pool to get the benefit of group purchasing power. doing away with junk lawsuits that drive up cost of providing health care in this country because of defensive medicine and expanding opportunities that people have through tax policy to get their own insurance, tax credits to allow them to have their own insurance policies. so the whole range of good republican ideas out there, but we don t get a chance to get those considered today because in the united states senate at least, democrats blocked those initiatives. you have a president and white house for whom this is his signature initiative. he will certainly veto anything we send him. jenna: you don t get to tell the dealer which cards to give you. you have to just play them, right, senator? that is what you re facing and focus is the election later this year and we ll certainly talk a lot about that. senator, great to have you back on the program as always. thank you so much. thanks, jenna. jon: have you heard this? the
community and unmarried women for instance and those of different religions, and it is a dangerous bill that governor brewer should not sign. again, they have already existing state religious freedom laws in the books. we don t need to expand them, and it is going to lead to more junk lawsuits, and quite frankly, it is a loser for the republicans on this. and chris, i want to point out that governor brewer has five days to sign this bill into law or veto it, and i have the p public schedule here, and it shows that she is going to be in washington until tuesday, and so the question is, what happens next if she is in d.c., and what is going to happen with the law? is she going to sign it? i can t see how she does. i mean, given that we all remember the blowback that came from the papers please lobby, and it is brutal in terms of the calls for boycotts, and the arguments about, you know, people should not be visiting the state, and so just from the business perspective, people, you kn