years i ve been in congress since newtown happened in my district, we have not had a single hearing, not a single vote in the house of representatives on commonsense bipartisan background check legislation, or frankly, anything else related to gun violence. it is overdo. time for this congress to take action and i applaud the president for going forward and taking steps within his authority to enforce the laws on the books. if he had this authority before, why do you think, congresswoman, he waited until now and not after, for example, newtown? well, i think he really wanted congress to act. frankly, i think we all thought that the slaughter of 20 school children in a first grade classroom would be enough to get congressional action. clearly we underestimated the power of the nra but the american people want and demand action. 90% of the american people and the vast majority of gun owners support xrcomprehensive backgrod checks on every commercial sale.
them. spend some time with them. work face-to-face work with them and build a relationship. that s how you govern. if you continue to see this particular reaction from the president, it just continues to signal that the show downwill be in place for some time. and it only signifies a concern that he is going to be working under a lame duck strategy. it very much does. and when why was a kid, we used to have a device we could call chinese handcuffs. they were a webbed device, you put both fingers in. the harder you pulled to try to get your fingers out, the tighter they came. in a way, what president obama is doing is playing with chinese handcuffs with the members of congress. instead of trying build bridges of relationship, spend more time talking to them, he spends more time talking about them. and the result is, they have less trust. they have less willingness to work with him.
lerner back in 2012 was conniving these new rules with top officials from the irs. recently around thanksgiving, they came out to the public and these are rules that will basically shut us down as a tea party group. so in essence, you feel that the obama administration has closed the book on this. and the investigation that s supposed to take place is intentionally dragging its heels to let the clock run out before the upcoming election? that s certainly the way it looks. what we re hearing from congress, they are not getting much help from this administration or the irs. there s a lot of stone walling going on. i can t believe the american people are sit back, letting it happen. when you talk about the new irs regulations. when you say they re designed to shut you down. how so? well, under these new regulations i am not allowed to use the words, reject, vote, oppose. that s just a few of them. we are not even allowed to have on our website the name of a
republicans, for example, don t want to get into the details of immigration reform and the main one is they can t trust harry reid and the democrats to be honest brokers. so i don t blame them to say we re going put that off until we have both houses of congress. we can make it something that we can live with and make it something that really does reform the process. which i think everybody agrees, we definitely snead some reform but it s got to be responsible. i want to move on, governor, to another big head line out of washington this week. the fact that there was testimony once again on capitol hill regarding the irs scandal. and there are now allegations that this targeting of conservative groups has not stopped. that it continues to this day. what s your reaction to this? cleatum mitchell which is the attorney before the house committee this week.
combination recently left 22 people dead in pennsylvania. the president now making good on his promise to side step congress. just a few hours from now, the administration will announce its next executive action. it is a plan to help farmers, they say, who claim they re impacted by climate change. it calls for the creation of seven so-called climate hubs. those would study wildfire and drought, and then develop plans to help deal with them. remember the texas teen-ager who was spared a prison sentence after a psychologist called him a product of affluenza? that teen-ager may go to jail after all. a judge claimed that his wealthy parents were to blame for his bad behavior after a drunk driving crash left four people dead last summer in texas. now a judge could give him jail time based on the other victims who were injured, not killed, but injured in that crash. a ruling is expected later today. we ll watch that carefully. radio shack now pulling the