right kevin madden, in the crossfire, senator ben carton, a democrat from maryland and senator john barrasso from wyoming. what can washington do to help you get a better job? tonight on crossfire. welcome to crossfire, i m kevin madden on the right. i m van jones on the left. in the crossfire we ve got two senators that have different ideas about how to help the middle class, but one thing we know would lep a lot, extending the unemployment benefits. but a little over an hour ago, thanks to the republicans, the key vote was delayed again. now, look, after listening to senator republicans all afternoon, i think the golden globes got it wrong last night. i think the washington republicans should have won for best acting. all these false tears over the jobs numbers, but they won t pass a jobs bill, they won t extend help for active job
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each one of the amendments. i thought we were going to vote tonight. ben and i worked together on the foreign relations committee, environment and public works committee together. we work well together. i believe he would agree with me that it seems absurd that we as republicans have only been able to offer on the floor of the united states senate four amendments for a vote since last july. four since last july. and harry s writing these things behind closed doors. you guys haven t had many to offer yourself. you ve been blocked just as much as i have. there needs to be more comity between the democrats and the republicans. no question there s too much partisanship in the senate and washington. but what i don t understand, that when george w. bush was president, we extended unemployment benefits. we didn t look for ways of offsetting it because we knew that during good times we collected money in the unemployment insurance funds to use when we re in a recession, that we didn t have t
on unemployment benefits. which is it? we ve made progress. we ve created 2 million jobs in 2013 over the last four years, 8 million jobs have been created. we re moving in the right direction, but we have to do a lot more. people can still not find employment. we need to create more job, more job opportunities. extending unemployment should be the first thing we do. isn t it? should have been a no-brainer. that continues to help families that are suffering where people are looking for work. what the republicans are suggesting is, okay, we ll extend it, but we want to offset the cost. that just takes money out of the economy when you re trying to build jobs. doesn t really make a lot of sense. what we want to see is a balanced approach where we invest in job growth. we invest in roads and bridges and our energy grid system and research and education. that will help create jobs but you need a balanced budget to do that. senator, everything he just said makes perfectly good sense to
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