mitch mcconnell, basically, had counciled his members to filibuster. this is what he had to say. he basically said this was a stunt. take a listen. we re going to have another show vote in the morning on a tax increase bill, styled as a student loan bill. my counsel to my members is, why would we want to get on a bill like that, that clearly is not going anywhere. it would be blue slipped by the house. was this a stunt? is this just an election year gimmick, knowing that it wouldn t go anywhere in the house? knowing that you re probably not going to get the votes. is this a gimmick? let s just be really clear. there are 40 million americans dealing with student loan debt. $1.2 trillion outstanding in student loan debt. this bill would have put hundreds of dollars, thousands of dollars back into the pockets of millions of people across this country, and would have been a real jump-start for this economy. young people today can t buy
the students. and it was, it was just not quite enough to get us past the republican filibuster. mitch mcconnell, basically, had counciled his members to filibuster. this is what he had to say. he basically said this was a stunt. take a listen. we re going to have another show vote in the morning on a tax increase bill, styled as a student loan bill. my counsel to my members is, why would we want to get on a bill like that, that clearly is not going anywhere. it would be blue slipped by the house. was this a stunt? is this just an election year gimmick, knowing that it wouldn t go anywhere in the house? knowing that you re probably not going to get the votes. is this a gimmick? let s just be really clear. there are 40 million americans dealing with student loan debt. $1.2 trillion outstanding in student loan debt. this bill would have put hundreds of dollars, thousands of dollars back into the pockets of millions of people across
and it was, it was just not quite enough to get us past the republican filibuster. mitch mcconnell, basically, had counciled his members to filibuster. this is what he had to say. he basically said this was a stunt. take a listen. we re going to have another show vote in the morning on a tax increase bill, styled as a student loan bill. my counsel to my members is, why would we want to get on a bill like that, that clearly is not going anywhere. it would be blue slipped by the house. was this a stunt? is this just an election year gimmick, knowing that it wouldn t go anywhere in the house? knowing that you re probably not going to get the votes. is this a gimmick? let s just be really clear. there are 40 million americans dealing with student loan debt. $1.2 trillion outstanding in student loan debt. this bill would have put hundreds of dollars, thousands of dollars back into the pockets of millions of people across this country, and would have been a real jump-start for this
communications director for congressman chris van hollen. they will give a fair and balanced debate today. doug, john boehner said look, we tried to get something. we got part of a deal out of the house of representatives. it is now up to the democratically led senate and democratic president to come up with some kind of plan we all can vote on. how do you respond to that. i mean i think that is kind of ridiculous. everyone knows if the president made a deal with harry reid it wouldn t go anywhere in the house. john boehner couldn t even pass his plan in the house. that was something that was worked up by him and eric cantor and others. so the real test here and i think challenge the president and john boehner sitting down again over the next three or four days. i think we have a few more days. we go over the cliff on the first but the new congress isn t sworn in until january 3rd. if they can work out, maybe just a small deal now. maybe down payments on cuts. maybe it is protecting,
and small businesses and doing, you know, a few things to medicare, and then that gets us into next year where we can do bigger stuff like corporate tax reform and larger reforms to the tax code. jon: amos, what do you think about that proposal? that proposal, the whole situation is telling. we didn t have to be here. we all saw this coming for months. we knew it was coming. doug is right, house republicans did act. they acted to stop the defense cuts and stop the tax hikes. what happened since then, senate democrats have done nothing with it. i think president obama, senator reid, they have to bear some responsibility they haven t moved any of this house-passed legislation. it is time for president obama and senator reid to act. one thing an amos piece. senate passed a bill which protected folks making 250 and less and small businesses from a tax increase. that is collecting dust in the house right now. jon: well, doug, let me throw it back at you, this is the same senate that has