University, an historically black college outside washington, d.c. it s the second time the president has tried to fire up the youth vote. earlier he was at the university of wisconsin. he was here campaigning for mark o malley and this is about as good as it gets for the president. o malley welcomes his support and maryland gives mr. obama a 60 percent job approval rating. now, late last month, o malley attend the white house for the signing of a small business jobs bill. he leads his republican challenge by 11 points, 52-41, robert erlick, the former governor of maryland, and among black voters, that margin is 83 percent-9 percent. the two maryland suburbs of washington, montgomery, prince georges county, hugely supportive of both the president and martin o malley and afl-cio leader, promise to deliver those suburbs and said the rest of the state, in his words, can
They re an s corporation like the majority of small businesses. small businesses account for 70% of all job growth. that is where we need to be able to assist. that s why in the pledge to america, we talk about a cut to small businesses, a 20% income cut for those of 500 employees or less. we have to get the country moving again. the uncertainty is keeping the capital that somebody has on the sideline. that s the issue, congressman van holland, the uncertainty. people say, we want to hire, we re sitting on the cash. but we don t know what the tax rates are going to be, we don t know what the rules are going to be. give us guidance and we could go ahead and hire folks. first, wolf, our colleagues after they had that event, they broke their pledge very quickly. we came back and had a vote last thursday on the small business credit and jobs bill. which did two things number one, it allowed more credit to flow to small businesses who are uncertain, exactly as you say to what the econ
Tactically, politically, they didn t want to try to stop this. they want to keep their message on tax cuts and democrats going home before voting on tax cuts and they didn t want to get pegged with republicans blocking a bill that s popular, the idea of giving health benefits to the people who are there on the front lines of 9/11 and have suffered illnesses because of it. rescue workers. down goes to the senate. what are the prospect there is? right now the senate is planning on leaving as early as tonight as well. there is a chance. we re told that the senate could take this up in the so-called lame duck session after they returned from from the election. but it is still unclear if they could do it this year. let s see what happens, dana, thank you. a man making sex allegations against a georgia pastor is speaking out. stand by for new developments in this case against bishop eddie long. one alleged victim is describing him as, quote, a monster. and the politics behind it.
You first. is it irresponsible not to deal with these tax cuts for the middle class and everyone else before you leave to go out and campaign? no, it s irresponsible, wolf, is for the republican leader in the senate, mitch mcconnell, to say that he s going to hold middle class tax relief, relief for 98% of the american people hostage until he can get tax breaks for the top 2%. at the same time, that will add $700 billion to our deficit. it will slow down economic debt in the long term. and hurt job growth. that is what s irresponsible. we will pass middle class tax relief this year and get it done. we saw what happen in the senate with the small business jobs bill. what happened? it was the republicans who held that up for weeks and weeks, months and months. so we will take this issue to the election. you ll have the vote after the election, though, in the lame duck session. and congressman mccarthy, the
Will see the order. finally passed the compensation health care package today. what democrats say is they put it on the floor of the house and required a supermajority to vote for it. and they didn t get that. the reason that democrats did that at the time was because they were worried that republicans were going to do something to try to block it or maybe put something unrelated on this measure. today, though, what democrats did is they offered it on the floor of the house with just a simple majority. they rolled the dice, saying, look, we hope that this bill, which is $7.4 billion, to give for health benefits for thousands of people who were there at the beginning at 9/11 to help people and deal with situations. they hoped it would pass. they were right. the reason they were right, that it was okay to put this on the floor and get that majority in which they were able to do, is not necessarily because republicans agreed with this, it s because republicans decided