to fulfill the pledge to america that many in the gop made in 2010. do you accept that they re only, basically, fulfilling a promise that they gave originally? well, they ve been fulfilling this pledge over and over and over this year. we ve passed scores of bills that either take away women s health rights in general or take away women s reproductive rights. so i don t know how many times they have to fulfill this pledge at the expense of fulfilling what should be everybody s pledge, which is to help create jobs for the millions of americans out of work. so are you suggesting that in purely cynical terms, what they re trying to do is have this kind of what you said was a war on women, in order to injure the president? is that really who they want to injure? and they re using the issue of women s reproductive rights in order to undermine the possibility or even prevent the possibility of there being any kind of substantiative progress through the congress on this
15.2 percent of our currents revenue stream. we dock this. we don t need to have the troops be victimized and we should not let our full faith and credit go. if they lose this leverage at the whites house there will be a whole different kind of negotiations going on. martha: let many talk about what s going on within the republican party. you came up with criticism of john boehner. you said looking at what happened in the c.r. that you do not have your confidence in him is not bolstered. that s a strong criticism of the leader of the house. i ments it to be gentle. i hope it s taken that way. we saw the c.r. promise, the pledge to america start out with $100 billion in cuts. it became $68 billion within then 38.5 billion. then some number nobody wants to talk about. and i don t even want to say
most precious. that s when you need to stand up and say no. reporter: rapid paul amendment fail and the patriot act expires at midnight. with passion knowledge the senate the house will act to avoid a lapse. the nation s top intelligence official james clapper says even a brief lapse would make the nation less secure. bret: thank you. after suffering defeat in special congressional election, congressional republicans are trying to shift the focus now. focus of the debate over the economy from medicare reform to jobs. correspondent doug mckelway looks at the new strategy and how it s going over. flanked by freshmanropes who owned small businesses, house speaker john boehner today honed the party message with a new republican plan for job growth. it builds on our pledge to america. the legislation, the legislative action that we are already taking this year to create jobs, which the democrats continue to block. the plan comes more than two years after democratic led congress pa
constitution, that s when it s most precious. that s when you need to stand up and say no. reporter: rapid paul amendment fail and the patriot act expires at midnight. with passion knowledge the senate the house will act to avoid a lapse. the nation s top intelligence official james clapper says even a brief lapse would make the nation less secure. bret: thank you. after suffering defeat in special congressional election, congressional republicans are trying to shift the focus now. focus of the debate over the economy from medicare reform to jobs. correspondent doug mckelway looks at the new strategy and how it s going over. flanked by freshmanropes who owned small businesses, house speaker john boehner today honed the party message with a new republican plan for job growth. it builds on our pledge to america. the legislation, the legislative action that we are already taking this year to create jobs, which the democrats continue to block. the plan comes more than two years a
it s got to have you here and welcome very much. thanks for joining us. [applause]. mike: thank you, a pleasure to join you, governor. mike: some members of your staff says you have been somewhat frustrated with the pace and flow of how washington works. you re a freshman member of congress, one with a mission. tell me about that frustration and what your he feeling. well, i m particularly frustrated, i think, on a lot of folks in washington say the right things, governor, but there s a real lack of urgency. when we have a 14.3 trillion dollar deficit and we can only talk about cutting a few billions of dollars when you had that massive debt looking at us, 1.6 trillion dollar annual deficit there s not the urgency whether it s the democrats or often times with the republicans. congressman you voted no on that compromise continuing resolution bill and tell me why, you said not going to vote for at that? well, the pledge to america that the republicans put out last fall talked