are you going to cut taxes for the middle class and those who are trying to get in the middle class or you re going to protect millions of tax breaks for mill areas and are you willing to fight for middle class families as you are for those who are more forth nalt? what s it going to be? we are people who reach for our own success but we also reach back for the people to bring somebody up reach back to help others earn their own success as well. joining me now is senator ben cardin, democrat crate from maryland and a member of the senate committee. senator, what do you make of this plan? we re right before the holidays. they are actually talking about laying off 200,000 people and freezing federal pay. i mean, this is as bizarre as it gets. al, you re absolutely right. this is all about trying to help
promising to prevent a vote on anything till the issue of extending the bush era tax cuts was resolved. we all know that. here s what kirsen gyllillibran said about that. the idea that tax cuts for mill areas would derail this legislation is simply outrageous and offensive of the men and women who rushed to the burning towers and worked for hundreds did not wait, we should not have to wait for tax deals to do what s right. the clock is ticking for the 9/11 bill. reports that democrats plan to bring it up for another vote in the senate before the end of the lame duck session but the question is, is there time and will it get the votes? though few are notrepublicans d want to go on television and say this, they say it s a lot of money, before that back in july house gop meals blocked it after democrats suspended the rules to keep republicans from tacking on unrelated amendments. when the bill famed, anthony
classic capitalist. everybody around him became wealthy. like most successful capitalists, he made the people around him wealthy. and a lot of african-american mill areas along the way and at the same time he fired a bunch of white guys as managers, left and right. is that racist, reverend? well, absolutely. i think that it is outrageous. first of all for him to have said this less than 24 hours after george steinbrenner died. you know, storage steinbrenner and i agreed, we disagreed. we would quarrel. in his later years we got kind of close because his granddaughter and my daughter became roommates and we got to know each other well. he and his family didn t deserve that. to my most adversarial opponent, i would not put that on their family less than 24 hours after their death. it you start calling him names
bill set for there afternoon that takes place after the market closes but we could hear about deals before the market and you know how the market works on rumors. with so many mill areas funding their own political campaigns from connecticut to california, does the regular guy have a chance anymore? today s national correspondent jamie gangel set out to find out. what did you find? well, what we found out is that there is a staggering amount of money being spent. the question is, will it hurt these candidates or will it help them? in politics, these days, so many millionaires are running for office, it s beginning to look a little like lifestyles of the rich and the famous especially in connecticut where there are so many rich candidates, the stanford advocate recently ranked them by their cars, mansions, and the size of their boats. thanks to a fortune made from her family s business,