65-33. rubio publicly credited of the bill. he s the only member running for president. he s not in washington to vote on the package. after the bill passed, senator rubio s campaign released a statement saying leaders in washington cracked at the trillion dollar spending bill in secret and unveiled it during the debate tuesday night. marco had 48 hours to review 2,000 pages of spending. senator rubio s missed budget vote caught the attention of one of the bill s more vocal opponents. fellow republican presidential candidate chris christie also called rubio out on the missed
libertarianism. they mobilized a recall campaign. last september they struck a blow. one of the law s architects, john morris, lost his recall election. so did another democrat who supported the law. and that s when you knew governor hickenlooper was going to be in trouble in 2014. which is probably why just a few weeks ago hickenlooper appeared before a group of sheriffs who are among the laws most vocal opponents and he seemed to backtrack on it. i apologize. i don t think we did a good job on any of that stuff. the meeting was recorded without hickenlooper s knowledge and he made even more politically damaging comments. i think a lot of people if they d known how much come motion was going to come out of the high capacity magazines would have looked for something different or a different approach. one of my staff made a commitment to sign it, it got passed. no one in our office thought it would get through the
administration is deporting fewer illegal immigrants as the years go on. correspondent doug mckell way reports that flies in the face of what the president s people have been saying. reporter: a day after house majority leader eric cantor accused of president of quote no insince sincere desire to work together on immigration reform i wished him happy passover. reporter: the president said he then reiterated his concern about immigration to cantor. what s holding us back is house republican leadership not willing to go ahead and let the process move forward. reporter: as those recriminations were flying, the justice department released a report that cast a different light on white house claims that it has deported more illegal immigrants, 2 million, than any administration in history. the report finds that new deportation cases have been declining steadily since 2009 and judges are increasingly ruling against deportation. it confirmed earlier suspicions of vocal opponents.
it s inevitable that there will be cuts but diet in a responsible way. bill the budget deal passed by overwhelming majority vote in the house but you won t be able to say the same thing in the senate. as we end the year, it s a tragedy the way the senate is being run into the ground by basically one person. i hope that one of the majority leader s new year s resolutions will be to operate the senate in a quite different matter. i m happy and satisfied we had 12 republicans voted with us for the bipartisan budget agreement. i look forward to final passage of this sometime tomorrow to avert another dangerous and coste government shutdown in january. bill: one of the more vocal
six other states who were vek vocal opponents and are now getting on board. so the governor crist, it looks like the flow is in the direction cooperation with the president. and that s a positive sign. the president got re-elect end re-elected handily. that sends a message it people across the country and to people in florida. that was in doubt for some time, as you know. he did take florida. he did well in the sunshine state. and i think the message is clear. people want common sense. they want those in washington it work together and want them to coordinate with governors around the can country to go what is right for the people at large. not necessarily what somebody may think is hard right or hard believe it but what is right for most of the people, what is common sense and what the people deserve from their elected leaders. let s do some math here. rick scott, i m no fan of that guy, approval numbers are in the tank. i guess a lot of people in