The top news story of the year peter and your emails of the year. And your emails and tweets. Earlier this month, a makeover spoke aboutum a women in congress and why they believe there should be more. Held by politico, this is half an hour. Good morning, im a senior political reporter and i am delighted to be joined to my colleague who is our senior washington correspondent and an esteemed group of women who example five the topic of our conversation, the peacemakers. With us this morning we have a democratic congresswoman from hawaii, democratic senator from minnesota, a republican congresswoman from florida and a republican from missouri. Do not forget to tweet questions and comments using women inrule. Thank you for joining us for this conversation. We want to start the conversation with you senator, there has been talk about how ,omen in the senate get along bipartisan, they have dinners. How well do you know these women . We are really good friends. When people talk about how, in
At this point we have seen Small Businesses all over this country who are losing the ability to compete, who are not expanding, who are staying under 50 employees, who are not hiring and who are forcing employees to move to parttime work. According to the chamber of commerce, survey of Small Businesses, half of Small Businesses eligible for the employee mandate are either moving to parttime workers or forcing fulltime workers to go parttime. This is not a small problem. This is not a marginal problem. This is a problem all over the country. You are a he talking millions of Small Businesses. And another i believe its 24 are not growing to stay under 50 employees. Which means theyre not hiring people. Anyone struggling to find a job, Small Businesses provide twothirds of all new jobs. Small businesses are crying out that obamacare is killing them. And, unfortunately, the United States senate is not hearing their crisis. Their cries. For the millions of americans that are facing the threa
Has there been an effort to have it translate to the other chamber and what kinds of chamber and what kinds of we are having it in the freshmen class. This weekreat dinner with the freshmen members from the democrat side of the aisle and the republicans. You how many bottles of wine we went through. And what we talked about was coming together, to get things done. Women are born networkers. Were born communicators. Multitaskers. Were solutionoriented. And i think there are lots of opportunities for us to come together and make things happen. Hats why i came to congress im somewhat discouraged with be level of dysfunction, to honest. And to the extent that we can be moving the change in ball forward, advancing things ,n behalf of our constituents and the country. Thats what we want to be a part of. Oldtimer, ive been here longer than many of you alive. En been we used to get along, used to women ate bipartisan dinners far more often than the etc. Of marge, so if they are still going on,
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The Service Members that live here is going to dramatically probably hit us. The point is this is already effecting people. Even if congress can avoid this potential ka tr potenti potentially theres a shock to the economy that would be much greater. This would be a default. Congress earning its Approval Rating this week. Exactly. Well see you later on as well. This sunday on meet the press David Gregory has an interview with senator ted cruz of texas after his obamacare protest this week and nbc news will be answering your questions about the new healthcare law. Tweet and facebook your questions. The National Security agency is facing scrutiny over the practices of his employees. Reporter the nsa for the first time admits some employees have spied on their girlfriends, boyfriends, husbands and wives listening to phone calls and checking emails without any valid foreign intelligence purpose. Its called loveint, collecting intelligence on love interests and a new letter documents a dozen