[captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] " newsmakers." of president obama's meeting with pope francis during his trip abroad >> joining us on "newsmakers" theressmen steve scalise chair of the republican study committee. thank you for being with us. joining us with the questioning is burgess everett who covers congress for politico and susan ferrechio, chief political correspondent for the examiner. on the larger issue of how you view the republican leadership,

this has put forth for you to run on in 2014. what kind of great would you give the gop leadership? >> if you look at what the house has done, i would give them an a. we have started bringing bills to the floor to address the problems that are holding our economy back. you have president and here in the senate who you have to give an f at best. you cannot tell what the plan is. they will not even bring any of these bills to the senate floor for a vote. miapresident seems to be when it comes to a job plan. he has never missed a deadline. we do know if the president jobs plan is. when you see this coming forward with a comprehensive bill to address the problems that are holding our economy back, to rebuild with an america that works. that is what the american people want us to focus on.

you have seen some really good bills moved through the house. we want to continue to sharpen that focus and put pressure on the president and the senate to start addressing the problems that are holding our economy back. these are bipartisan ideas, many of which are in our jobs bill. join uswish they would to help solve these problems. does in bickering go both ways? >> we have laid out a number of objectives. here the republican study committee put our best ideas together in the form of a single bill that families across the country want us to focus on. how to become independent. created by be opening up the resources that the president has on energy productions. they are killing jobs.

saying things like the rain jacket we have in our bill. if there is a major change in regulation that will come forward, it will have a devastating impact on our economy. it should first have to go through congress. it shouldn't be up to them to post a numeral that will kill jobs in america. if that is happening right now with agencies in so many other federal agencies including the irs .> susan ferrechio have said in recent interviews that the house been fairlyas strong in showing what they are against but has a weakness for demonstrating what the party is more. given this is includes a lots of

the ideas that the republican party has arty put forth. how does that change things? they're often opposed to passing big legislation. how will this help show what republicans are for more than what do party has already put forth? >> what you're seeing here the jobs bill is it a approach that takes these ideas? there cannot be enough of these. when i talk to constituents back home, a lot of my colleagues talk to their constituent. people really do not know what our plan is. even though he passing lots of good hills, a lot of people have not seen that focused agenda. ideas into a single package and says this is our jobs plan to sharpen the focus. it continues to raise awareness. it adds to the things the house was arty done -- already done.

we approved to the keystone pipeline. our leadership brought this to the floor to approve the keystone pipeline. a very strong appeal across the country. us whatple are asking is our plan to create jobs, the fact that we passed a lot of good bills is important. when we put those into a single plan it focuses it even more so people can see the things we stand for and contrast them against this. is for the will need gop leadership to endorse your plan or bring it to a floor for the vote. the house speaker said that he would give no commitment to do that. have you heard from him about it? >> now that we fire old the bill we have overbill, 30 members of congress that have cosponsored this bill. the number have endorsed the bill.

people are hungry for the bold ideas. we cannot pass a enough of bold ideas to get this back on track. we continue to fight to get our economy back on track. tothe senate is not going adjust these problems, that is going to be one of the big issues in the senate races just like in the louisiana. the scissors are a ask the question. why did she support leadership? in the force a vote senate? all of these bills that we have combined into the jobs package are ideas that have been brought forward by our members. we need to continue to show .eople what we stand for horrible unemployment numbers. people are given up working for work. for the boldngry

ideas. the more that we can bring to to show weven better are fighting for the american people. >> talk a little bit about. your party is feeling better about the senate. the leadership change if you have all of congress under republican control? do you have to shift tactics? do you keep going through the strategy? the house strategy continues to move forward in focusing on solutions to problems america is facing. the difference would be if we are or soon enough that the american people said we wanted to switch house and senate majority. we can finally take some of those of hills not just to adjust problems with getting the economy back on track but looking at the health care problems. this is a dismal failure. every week he delays another portion of his own law.

they refuse to work in a bipartisan way. we have really good ideas. the senate does that want to take them up right now. the president has been shielded from these problems because harry reid does not bring these up for a vote. at least a lot of the things you have seen past the house, we're going to have a budget that passes within a 10 year window. the senate has never passed a budget that will actually get the balance under harry reid. partner whereling we can start bringing these of bills to the senate floor for a vote to solve america's problems, to get our country moving again. we're going to finally have to start making the tough decisions. he is going to finally have to start confronting really serious problems. a do you envision

republican-controlled congress with the pressure to veto legislation or take a strong position on things that you have been sending him that the senate has not been picking up? >> absolutely. it puts pressure for him working with republicans and democrats. and a lot of old focus on the divides between these. our colleagueso they do not seem to have much of a relationship with a lot of our rank-and-file members on the democratic side. the president has not done a good job of trying to build any kind of relationships with congress to get wings done. problems areo many unanswered. people are hungry for solutions. we have a lot of really good ideas. many going for the graveyards in the senate. that changes next year. it puts pressure on the president to get engaged with these problems, to work across

the aisle. we want to give him the opportunity. >> take one aspect of the affordable care act that you would change that you think democrats would work with you on. so many parts. i want to repeal this law and go back. they can replace the president's health care law. just look at this 30 hour work week rule. yes perverse incentives that are forcing employers to drop their workforce below 50 employees and statusple into part-time . is a 25% pay cut for american families. if we had a bill that went through the senate, i guarantee you would have a very strong bipartisan vote to change that and stop these incentives that are killing jobs in america.

if there is a republican senate and house, the pressure will also be on your party to come to an agreement on things. you talked about changing the organization a little bit to make it more amenable to working with leadership and more membership driven. part of that is because there are folks who have not been willing to work with leadership. there has been disagreement within the party, best leading to our big fiscal cliff standoff. do you think the party in the house is really ready to work under a republican house and senate? worked tow you have smooth that over. >> one of the biggest divisions we have seen are in tact x, not in policy.

our philosophies are very similar. it is the tactics of how it starts getting address. chairman, we've got 100 75 members. we are a very large part of the majority. we want to solve problems. our members have some of the best ideas. to solve these problems. we want to get good conservative policy brought to the floor. some of that has gotten signed into law. housect that we got the to have a budget that balances and 10 years. we worked very closely with paul ryan. making it within our own kitchen tables. it never hits the balance.

the senate goes and does the same thing. we have gotten a lot of common ground in the last year and a half. hearing -- i am hearing from the leadership. do you think he should serve another term as head of the house? >> there's all kind of speculation that what happens. this is missing side of the fact that we have a lot of big challenges. there is a whole election cycle. trying too starts figure out what the curtains are going to be measured like in the offices, that is when you start running the problems. objective is to

continue to fight for the american people and bring solutions forward to these big problem's our country is facing. the voters are going to justice in november. we cannot lose sight of what our primary mission is. create jobs and solve problem's. does losing their health care plans and doc is. hearing an explicit endorsement for john boehner coming back. not mistaken it was going to run for what. if we start focusing on that, as the sight of what our mission and job is. our job is to fight for the american people. these are the things we need to keep focused on.

a number of these have come to the house floor already. these toue to work for the house floor. send them over to the senate and get them to start addressing these problems as well. >> based on your conversations with speaker boehner, does he still enjoy the job? >> ps challenges every day he faces. it is a challenge that so many people are facing. i just did seven town hall meetings last week throughout louisiana. yet people dealing with real createdproblems wit being by policies out of washington. challenges igest hear from people in my constituents are about the problems washington is creating for people, impediment they are putting in front of people. that is what we have to keep

focused on. this pales in comparison to the problems they are facing. the republicans take over the senate, let pretend it is january 2014. what is the first item they should take up? things we need to do to get the economy moving again. you look at the number one people talk about it is the economy. they want to see an economy that works again. it want to see jobs created again. they would love the opportunity to get back into the workforce. we have to go and tackle the problems and bring the bills to the senate and get into the president desk. the president loves bragging that he has a pin and a phone -- pen and a phone and what he could do right now is sign the

keystone pipeline. he has avoided that. what would happen if not only the bill passed out of the house would actually pass the senate russia? then he would have to face that challenge. would maybe sign it? him thatto give opportunity. i think you will have it come january. >> you were dismissive of the id'sident and senator reed's suggestion that we should extend unemployment benefits. they have set up some issues to keep the senate. what do you make of the plan? you do you think there is any common ground with republicans? >> the president is not serious about tackling problems. he is up this on dividing the country so he can win elections.

they are very divisive issues in this country. they are not issues that unite our country. he promised it would be a different kind of president that when you night -- would unite. dividingigned to war america down the middle. that is not the kind of america they want to embrace. if you look at the bills we are talking about bringing forward, many of these other bills that are leadership brought to the house floor. our country. you can see that there are a vote.tisan bil if you are serious he would be picking issues that unite us. not talking about unemployment benefits. the best in employment benefit you can have is a good job. he will not do anything to get this.

>> with everything we have talked about today, how would you sign the leadership? >> it is hard to sell what it is. the president has failed in so many areas. are critical and concerned about america's place in the world. they want us to be a strong nation. you have a president apologetic for american string. the fact that president obama has allowed him to become the world leader, it is an embarrassment. people want america to be the leader of the free world. they do not want the old soviet union to be rebuilt. look at iran moving toward a nuclear weapon any of a president saying we should just all get a long. it would be great. there are people that do not like us and want to hurt our friends. look at what iran what to do.

they want to eviscerate israel off the face of the earth. will we stand behind our strong ally or support policies that help iran envelop a nuclear weapon? -- develop a nuclear weapon? such a leadership void. it is one of the reasons why our economy is hurting so bad. americans have you been up looking for work because they do not have the confidence. to ukraine and russia, what specifically should the president have done that he has not done? >> they should have paid attention to the telltale signs months ago. i am not sure what the diplomacy has been all about. this is not something that just happened overnight. you had leaders like condoleezza rice warning about this months and years ago. you have mr. romney talking about rush as the number one threat in the world and barack obama dismissed it. he made a joke about it. i do not know if he just missed

it or he does not get foreign policy or fee is ok with the soviet union being rebuilt again. he literally -- or if he is ok with the soviet union being rebuilt again. hear youing i did not talk about was the repeal of the health care law. is that becoming secondary or republicans? the big priority for voters, way ahead of the health care law our job in the economy. republicans feel it is time to just focus on that and put aside the repeal efforts? >> i talked about repeal earlier. i specifically talked about the health care law. it replaces it with reforms. i do not think it is good enough to just repeal the health care law. there were problems before obamacare. the problems are much worse today. the cost is too high.

are dramatically higher after obamacare. access is limited and is worse today. we need to go back to the basic things that put patients back in charge of health care. acrossbuy insurance state lines. having more say over the decisions that are made. getting bureaucrat like irs agents into the decisions. it is one of the biggest problem's that companies are not hiring today. when i talk to small businesses, their biggest impediment to job the presidents health care law. because of the perverse incentives that encourage people to reduce their workforce. what kind of america is it where you are encouraging people to lay people off of work and reduced their hours? it is one of the big part of an agenda they get the economy moving again.

>> buzz feed posted him at a fundraiser. he described the uninsured as less educated and illiterate. i am curious what you thought of the comments. >> i've not seen them. bill cassidy is a medical or that treat the of insured. therovides -- treats uninsured. he knows what the problem's are. landrieu was the deciding vote. people do not like what it has done. i have met some people in my district who have lost the good health care they had. everybody knew it was in the bill. it was moving through congress in 2009. we predicted people would lose the health care has a big mandates. it is happening today. it is hurting real people. one of the things i know he has

worked very hard is as a health care provider directly addressing the problems in health care. able to do that anyway he has not seen. >> i know it is early. any favorites on your part in the 2060 republican nomination? 2016 republican nomination? >> i was looking for ronald reagan. out theomeone that lays conservative agenda that solves problems and shows people how conservative solutions can work to get our country back again and re-create the american dream. people want optimism. a lot of people were drawn into a locker barack obama's campaign message in 2008. to deliver. he let a lot of people down. i think we will have one of our

strongest deals in years. i think that is a good thing. having a number of different republicans running, your art sings and good and strong candidates. this is what i am looking for. i know america's best days are ahead. i know we have real problems that are not being addressed today. they're proposing solutions to america's problems. this is what people are hungry for. i am excited about that opportunity. >> your current governor in the louisiana is one of the candidates. what is your relationship like with him? do you think you could be supportive? congresselected to after he was elected governor. i've known him for a long time. he is one of the people that is being mentioned.

a lot of people are talking about him. the more good, strong republican candidates we can have talking about conservative solutions to get our economy moving and going to inspire people. they have been let down by this president. so many of the opportunities that he has that he failed to fulfill. i think you'll see a real desire to see a good, strong field. be a goodis will thing. there will be lots of other good will that get in and inspired to get the country back on track. >> are you supporting david bidder for governorship in louisiana? >> he has not asked for my support. i like him. i have worked with them here in congress. i think he would be a good, strong leader that would help continue to move our state forward.

i'm glad that he is running. i was real excited that he got into the race. he would bring bold leadership to the governor of our state. it is just getting started. we have races in november we have to get through. you do not want to look too far down the field. i think he would do a great job. >> will this personal indiscretion in the past be a fact that? >> he has addressed that before. people are hungry for bold solution. that has the one of the .allmarks that is what people are so frustrated with president obama. they see a president who is ignoring serious problems of our country. they want someone that will go out there to solve problems that her regular folks. were losingens their medicare advantage.

people are frustrated i this radical agenda. brought these ideas forward. they will be very successful. , thank you very much for being with us. let me turn to a poll that came out this past week here at it so that two thirds of the country the that we are moving in wrong direction. approval set a record low. where does this put the midterm election? showe same polls that congress broadly is unpopular. it rarely shows that people want to toss up their representative. a lot of the time they will still go to become been -- the incumbent even though they disapprove congress as a whole. i am not sure the broad disapproval means they will throw it out. >> your take away?

i think you brushed over what will be an emerging problem. they're standing on the verge of having possession of both the house and senate where they can pretty much have their way with anything. they will still need 60 votes to clear anything. they will be able to move a lot further.- it will expose cracks with in their own party that we have arty seen this year. -- that we have already seen this year. discontented republicans who filled the leadership has not skewed conservative enough. they're going to make their voices heard. now democrats are not running the senate. he is arty allied himself with the leadership.

i think we need to stay tuned. it'll be interesting to watch. of the divisions reportedly within the house republican caucus and the leadership of 2015. >> you pointedly -- he pointedly did not answer my question about whether speaker boehner should come back here . other republicans have called for him perhaps not to run again. others say he should. i find it interesting that he gives the literature -- the leadership in a but does not want to say if they should come back. burgess everett and susan ferrechio, thank you for being with us. >> two weeks after the burglary i received a large manil