That s according to the joint economic committee. and when you dig in to that, they have a big warning flag. and they say, you know what? a lot of these are not small businesses. it includes pricewaterhouse. it includes fortune 100 companies, it i includes bipg washington law firms. my question to kevin and his colleagues is why is it they want to give tax relief to big washington law firms and hold tax relief everybody else hostage. we re not the majority. we d gladly run this bill. let us be in the lead we ll have enough democrats on our side to eck tend them all the way. there s no tax cut. you re going to keep the same tax system or increase taxes. last week we rolled out the pledge to america. we went to the lumber company. if it goes through the way the democrats want it to be, that small business that no one in that business that had raises in two years, they had to lay off the first person in 21 years and they re using their savings, they would be paying taxes higher than t
Leader, john boehner. we didn t hear what he had to say. i ll read it to you. with the idea that we re going to leave here and not ix tend all of the tax breaks is irresponsibility on the part of this congress. how could any member could vote to adjourn and punt this to a lame duck session is putting your election above the needs of your constituents. that statement from john boehner. talk about that. joining us the congressman from maryland, representative chris van holland. he s the chairman of the democratic congressional campaign committee. he s on your right. also joining us, the republican representative from california, kevin mccarthy serves as vice chairman of recruitment for the national republican congressional committee. thanks to both of you for coming in. chris van holland, i ll go to
Loved the kids, but not most of the peers. not much has changed, has it? you go governor christy. and james in north carolina says certainly they ought to, but the teachers union would not allow it, because the union exists to serve the teachers and what s more the massive administration and its layers of excess personnel. who could force the teachers to take the tests? they are above the law. mike said, i assumed they did in college beginning with the s.a.t.s and had they not passed they would not have been hired as teachers. we should give them the benefit of the doubt and stop trying to politicize the education system. to educate the children, the parents have to take responsibility and look at the classes that ri in and make them study and turn off the tvs and the video games and demand that your brats behave. jeff in hawaii writes i think it is a great idea. growing up in california, hayed a soccer coach who taught government and a football coach who taught health and a chemistry
A dramatic reversal from an earlier field poll and an indication that more than ever before, california voters appear to be willing to just say yes. shepard: smoke them in you got them. claudia, thanks. cheers. shepard: i m shepard smith. this is the fox report. it s the bottom of the hour. time for the top of the news. another show down over taxes on capitol hill. democrats are backing a bill to punish companies that send jobs overseas and reward businesses that bring jobs to this country. the senate rejecting that bill today. but analysts say democrats may still try to claim a symbolic victory as they head home to campaign. shannon breen is on the top story, what s the thinking about how democrats get a win or loss out of this thing? the bill that came to the senate floor today was tainted by saying it s keeping jobs from going overseas. when it gets voted down by the
Republicans, democrats say they can go home and then talk about how republicans are out of touch and don t care about average americans. they care about big businesses. here is senator debbie stab now. we believe something different. we believe you fight for the middle class, for working families, small businesses, all of whom they have been voting against, including the small business jobs bill. well, republicans point the finger back at harry reid and say he continues to call those on these bills when he knows he doesn t have the numbers to get them passed. shepard: what about this report that republicans rolled out today that points the blame right back at the democrats? yeah. in this report they re saying it s actually the epa and other fingers from the administration that are overregulating businesses and that is actually forcing u.s. jobs to go overseas. it s interesting because this claim is now bringing together some very interesting allies. republicans and labor unions