these people spend the money. they need to spend the money because they have to live on it. and it s bad idea for human reasons and economic reasons. you know, e.j., republicans could ruin holidays for people looking for work. 1.3 million people could lose unemployment benefits in the week between christmas and new year s. if the house republicans refuse to act. last week house democrats called out boehner and the republicans for their heartlessness. let me show you this. with just a few weeks left to act, speaker boehner is setting him up to be the speaker who stole christmas. for this country, the richest in the world to say to people at christmastime when you look in your christmas sock, you re going to find a lump of coal from the congress. that s wrong. i mean, this is a terrible, terrible thing to hold over people s head as we go into the
challenges we need to face. we should point out, most people know the numbers but it s 18% of our congress is women. still we have a very long way to go. long way to go. murkowski called out boehner by name. this was an important moment. they said this is not about the speakership and winning the next election, it s about doing the right thing for your country. i think we re going to go to breaking news. we have members of the house republican conference, looks like they might speak or at least have come out of the meeting which is why we wanted to go right to it to take a look. and they are dodging the press. you re seeing live footage of what happens when the press is dodged. we wanted to show whether they would stop to speak which sometimes they have been doing. i don t think we can overinterpret the silence because we have votes ideally scheduled coming out of the senate. ari is not going to over interpret something? breaking news on the cycle .
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the floor of the house where we tried to bring up that compromise bill. we simply asked them for a vote. a vote on a bill that had 80% of the republican senators supporting it. apparently speaker boehner did not want to come to the floor of the house. he was apparently hiding out in his office. but the answer to this riddle is very obvious. which is mr. speaker, come out of your office, come on to the floor of the house, let s take up the bipartisan compromise senate bill. we can get this to the president s desk within 24 hours. now, the democrats position right now, calling out boehner, obviously. but is this the situation where we ve done all we re going to do and give us a call when you change your mind, john? is that where we re at right now with the democrats? are the democrats going to hold the line and not make anymore changes, no more conference committees? this is it? well, yes, because it s not only what democrats have already done. it s what democrats and republicans ha
saying to john boehner speaker of the house, come on, bring the compromise bill to a vote. i was with steny hoyer today on the floor of the house where we tried to bring up that compromise bill. we simply asked them for a vote. a vote on a bill that had 80% of the republican senators supporting it. apparently speaker boehner did not want to come to the floor of the house. he was apparently hiding out in his office. but the answer to this riddle is very obvious. which is mr. speaker, come out of your office, come on to the floor of the house, let s take up the bipartisan compromise senate bill. we can get this to the president s desk within 24 hours. now, the democrats position right now, calling out boehner, obviously. but is this the situation where we ve done all we re going to do and give us a call when you change your mind, john? is that where we re at right now with the democrats? are the democrats going to hold the line and not make anymore changes, no more conference committe