answer. people were given a lot of money during the pandemic, a lot of stimulus checks, unemployment insurance, they still have health concerns and a lot don t want to go back to the old jobs they had. you can see on this chart notwithstanding that we had 6.4 million jobs created last year compared to an estimate of 4.7. if you look back, this chart goes back to 1951. it is 50% more jobs than have ever been created in a single year. to your point, there s still 10.6 million open jobs in this country, a record number of jobs. wow. and 2.3 million people have left the labor force, all to your point, not actively looking. let s look before you finish on a couple of noneconomic things that happened last year to president biden. so first we all know build back better isn t passing, but you can see in this chart a way to sort of look at the overall picture which is the fact congress has been doing less and less every year. if you go back to the 1980s it was passing 230 bill as year.
point is on the issue of gun control. the president was saying today that he believes mitch mcconnell, the senate majority leader is totally on board with the idea of background checks but you and i both know we ve seen this movie before. being totally on board on this friday is not necessarily where things will stand when they come back from recess. right. and here is the thing when we re talking about whether or not mitch mcconnell is on board here, he can be on board in principle, but all he cares about is the senate majority leader is how could we put this in a piece of legislation that has enough votes to pass. he s not going to put his republican senators in a position where they re going to have to vote for something that isn t passing, that is politically unpopular or be signed by the president. exactly. so the president might be right now very enthusiastic about this in principle but the devil is in the details especially when it comes to the politics of gun control
more reaction. moments ago the hearing on the hill continues. john boehner blasting the white house on the irs scandal moments ago. watch. when you look at the president s remarks when this scandal unfolded almost a year ago he said that he would fully cooperate. they have not fully cooperated and they haven t dope done a damn thing to get to what happened. lois lerner refuses to tell us the truth and then all of a sudden we lose two years worth of e-mails. i grew up in a bar this isn t passing the face straight test. lou dobbs is here. we are watching how this is
he was an 83 percent plus rating from the conservatives. and mr. shannon is a poplar republican and making the argument he is not a washington insider. this has been a battle across the country. it is closing in oklahoma and it is close. the question is whether the tea party versus establishment labelling with have a punch that could keep him from winning and put him against mr. shannon for a run off. this is an opportunity to look at how the battle plays out when the folks say it isn t about one guy being an insider or out sider we want the bad guy. police officer in texas pulling a woman off train tracks. watch here.
uncomfortable. some of the stars on hand to meet the queen on that visit. gary oldman sounding off against liberals during a candid interview with playboy magazine. he said political correctness has gotten out of control in this country. i think it is like take a joke, get over it. i don t know about mel gibson, he got drink and said a few things. we have all said them. we are hypocrites and try to hide but that is what gets me. because we stand up here saying isn t that shocking. david web is host of the david