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. lawmakers gathering for state of the union tonight instead of trying to break the congressional deadlock of sorts. there are new sign that is maybe skong ready to do some deals. after all, house and senate negotiators finally agreed on a new farm bill. of course, it s a massive piece of legislation two years in the making, reforming agriculture subsidies, slashes the federal food stamp program by $8 billion over the next ten years, far less than the $40 billion cuts that house republicans had passed. an initial vote is expected tomorrow. this will go through before we see milk prices sky rocket. it s the kind of legislation that used to get done without much fanfare. now it seems like nothing can get passed without a fight. 81% of the public disapproving of the way lawmakers are doing their job here on capitol hill. it hasn t dropped below 80% in more than 2 1/2 years. right now, they find the ....
By getting rid of egregious agriculture subsidies. speaker boehner refused a vote. i hope we can get it moving in the senate. senator reid indicated he s open to looking at a number of options. we put a proposal on the table last week, unfortunately, the senate republicans objected to that. so we still have lots of republicans, chris, who are blaming the people who are unemployed instead of working together to try and fix this problem on an emergency basis. 1.3 million americans who lost their jobs through no fault of their own, still looking for work, we need to make sure they have some support as they continue that search. before i let you go, i have to ask you about that excerpt from the new hillary clinton book. it says her staff has a hit list that essentially ranks people that didn t endorse her in 2008 for president. you re on it. your reaction? yeah, chris, i just heard about this, and i have to say, it s a total mystery to me. i was the chairman of the ....
The cost to the government. he s trying to regulate and make sure it doesn t cost too much. it s interesting to me, i ve been watching lately about every time there is an attempt to find something to pay for something, the first or second sentence is, oh, there s this cut in agriculture subsidies. so the implication is that there s just too many agricultural subsidies that the government is involved in. do you have this point of view? with due respect to those folks i think there s a lack of understanding what those subsidies actually do. they reduce the risk of farming. think about farming today, whether it s dealing with subzero weather, the snowfall that occurred in october and basically wiped out livestock operations in the dakotas, mother nature sometimes doesn t cooperate. the bottom line is that can result in people going out of business because it s expensive to farm. the reason why we re a food secure nation is because we have extraordinarily productive people that stay in ....
Agriculture subsidies. even if the three-month extension were to pass the senate it does face a very uphill path in the house. speaker boehner made it clear yesterday in addition to demanding that an extension of expired benefits be paid for, he would also tie it to republican priorities like building the keystone pipeline, expanding exemptions from the health care law and opening energy exploration on federal land. all, of course, are nonstarters for the white house. house republicans are aware of their vulnerability on this empathy issue and have released a series of talking points for members among them. for every american out of work it s a personal crisis for them and their family. washington has lost its priorities. if it s more focused on making unemployment easier to tolerate than it is getting people back to work. but democrats led by the president have made it clear they want to go on offense on this issue. i ve heard the argument that says extending unemployment insurance ....
I hope 2014 will be a better year in congress than 2013, which was certainly in the house of representatives a black hole. look, if the senate can get this passed in the senate and harry reid has made this priority number one, that will create some momentum in the house and speaker boehner, i think, will be under more pressure to do something. however, sandy levin, congressman levin and i tried before we took a break to get the house to vote on an amendment that would have extended unemployment compensation and paid for, frankly, by reducing agriculture subsidies, overpayments, and the speaker refused to allow a vote at that time. so our hope is that a push from the senate will get things moving in the house. but the jury is still out. so there is some room to work out potential for the extended benefits there, but another item on the congressional agenda is the proposition of minimum wage and raising it in this country. ....