look, none of this stuff gets to me. the results what are matters. we made good on our promises. we advanced good legislation and more importantly do you think this rhetoric is inappropriate? out of line? i don t really pay attention to it. people know who i am. some of your members do. the members know i am a movement conservative. they know i am a doer not a be-er. i want to make sure we have an agenda to take the american people that is rooted in our founding principles, this is what conservatives believe, to give the country a very clear choice and that s what we re excited and looking forward to in 2016. you were aggressive when it comes to pushing you were happy about this and the tax. but one of the criticisms from deficit hawks is $700 billion in permanent tax cuts, what you ve done with obamacare is probably going to be these yearly extenders which if it becomes permanent, that s another $250 billion. they re not paid for. that s a trillion in tax cuts not paid
of jp morgan chase. that s kind of a litmus test moment. is that a signal that you should vote on it? or that you should definitely vote against it. well, in the end, it did pass last night. we avoided a government shut doin when the house passed that bill less than three hours before mid night. but it does still have to pass the senate. there s been some short term extenders to try to give the senate a little more time to get their act together and keep the lights on. but we ve bb been watching them all night tonight not knowing if it was going to have the votes and if it did pass and not knowing if they were going to give thems some short term mess e mish to give themselves more time, to stay in session to do this funding bill and even more to piece its together as best thaz could. they ve at least e at least made a decision for tonight. what we re told is that mitch mcconnell just jumped into a elevator and said see ya monday, which implies they re not
less than three hours before midnight, and it still has to pass the senate. there has been short term extenders to give the senate a little more time so they can get their act together and keep the lights on, but we have been watching them in session tonight, not knowing if it was going to pass or if they were going to give themselves a short-term measure to give themselves more time to stay in session so they could piece it together as best they could. well, we just learned that they have at least made the decision for tonight, and we re told the senate minority leader mitch mcconnell just jumped into an elevator and said, see you monday, which implies they may not be leaving for good but just for the night. joining us now is the senate producer. what is happening tonight? can we tell? sounds like what they are
thanksgiving. let s start with something i never thought i would do or never done before. i grew with chuck schumer. i want to quote senator schumer when he talked about obamacare. he quoted wasn t the change we were hired to make. americans were crying out for the end of the recession for better wages, more jobs not changes in health care. what i see today and you look at the wall street journal, the article today basic cost squeezed families because the rise in health care costs. then you look at the work that chairman camp and senator reid did together to a bipartisan agreement when it came to tax extenders. made a lot of it permanent to help job creation. unfortunately the president disagreed with the bipartisan action. the house will act this week. we ll move extenders and we ll also bring up the able act.
the senate whether republicans object to it in principle or whether they want it paid for. do you understand what your colleagues are demanding and why they re actually obstructing it? because it remains unclear to me. you hear it both ways. some of them are just basically of the belief that a person who doesn t have a job is just lazy. and the only way to get that person up and moving is to stop giving them a helping hand. whether it s food stamps, which they don t like, either, or unemployment benefits. and then there are others who use the pay form, i m not going to question their sincerity. but when it comes to tax extenders, the breaks in the tax code for corporations to move jobs oversea, you know, year after year they say, no, you don t have to pay for those. so there s a dual standard here. what happens next? today s vote, i think was a little bit of a surprise, it was unclear whether we were going it get the votes. what happens next? well, a couple republican votes surpr