carmen wong ulrich, and jamal simmons and newly elected congresswom congresswoman symanon. well, republicans have said the same thing, and there are a group of people who are congresspeople spending time right now and according to the aides spent time over the holidays thinking about what a bill would look like crafting a bill. we have yet to see what a bill might look like. absolutely, we are looking at a scene right now that makes it look very difficult to get anything, anything progressive certainly passed. now, you know, the reality is that both parties here are starting from in the red on immigration reform. the republican party has consistently blocked everything,
course, as we go to front page politics. new today the president is tackling the next battle with republicans, in today s weekly address, the debt ceiling. now, here s the president one thing i will not compromise over is whether or not congress should pay the tab for a bill they ve already racked up. if congress refuses to give the united states the ability to pay their bills on time the consequences for the entire global economy could be catastroph catastrophic. john boehner told members of his gop congress on friday he plans to use the upcoming watt battle as leverage for more spending cuts. chuck todd reports that insiders have been told to prepare for chuck hagel s nomination for defense secretary as possibly as early as monday. a white house spokesperson said the president has not made a final decision yet. and former arizona congresswoman gabrielle giffords spent time in newtown, connecticut, she met with victims and families of the sanity hook elementary school
i want to be clear as you point out, that this is a much smaller bill, and we will go back again to see if there is a second or third appropriation even, but when you look at who voted, you have 192 members of the house coalition voting yes for sandy relief, and still 66 republicans in the house voting against it. including the entire delegation from my state. we don t have hurricanes in arizona, but we have federal disasters and we need it when it happens in our state. and people have been told that bills like this are the reasons that we are running trillion dollar deficits, but they are not. wars and the tax cuts are where the money is, but they have been telling each other this is where you go to get the cash, the foreign affairs and all of the little thing, so now they are caught, but they don t have the ideological room to do something productive for the country. ten years ago we did not pay
of lincoln are probably less important than the actual facts of the emancipation proclamation, itself. n now, talk to me about the reparations, and bringing to the congress again this year, what he calls the reparations of the lincoln bill, and talk about the slavers and the slaveholders. so compensation right up until the final act of the january 1 emancipation proclamation, because there was a september 22nd preliminary emancipation which gave a mandate to lay down the arms or your slaves will be free. and up to the january 31st deadline, lincoln was doing the back door deals with
speaker john boehner in particular for having failed to pass a $60 billion hurricane sandy relief bill. our people were played last night as a pawn, and that s why people hate washington d.c. that s why they hate this politics. last night it was my party responsible. both parties can take plenty of responsibility over time, but last night my party was responsible for this. when it comes to the politics of sandy, christie is certainly playing his part. just one of many characters in the sandy land drama. the tell it like it is governor will eat his own if he has to to get new jersey their aid. is he mad at the embattled leader holding the purse strings, who is being undermined by his unreliable lieutenant. also in the picture, new york congressman peter king who finally helped boehner tame the growing mutany in the house hours after giving him a very public dressing down. in the background? president obama who has been calling christie and is only too