republican susan collins democratic amy klobuchar, diane degelle and tom rooney. >> can you explain this to americans? you have something that's truly life-saving, you have both parties agreeing on it, and yet it cannot get brought to a vote. >> i don't know what has to happen for people to recognize that this has to happen. >> why would we turn our backs on these patients and on the medical communities who need this help when we know it works? >> why does it take months and months? why not today? >> i've been in congress 16 years. i have never seen a congress where it was more difficult to pass legislation. i think you should call the leadership and ask them why they haven't brought this bill up for a vote. >> so we did. we showed up at speaker of the house john boehner's weekly press briefing. why is it that legislation that everybody agrees is desperately needed is taking so long to pass? >> well, congress is working on this. the senate is getting ready to move a bill. the energy and commerce committee is getting ready to mark up a bill in early may. but i would also ask, where's the

. >> senator amy klobuchar asked about the competition and mergers. >> what role do you think the fcc should plea to ensure adequate competition in the two medications market? >> i think it increasingly we are going to see more and more intermodal competition is making sure more wireless spectrum is available so there can be more competition from wireless is a good place to start. >> senator i would build upon the answer and say to the extent the commission can do so it should make sure that the rules of the road don't differentiate between the technology is used. i think a lot of times the commission is dealing with regulations that apply to the telecommunications but not the cable providers, cable providers but not wireless providers and to the extent they are competing in the same space i think it's important to have a technological niche away with respect to the commission's rules to ensure everyone is competing on a level playing field. >> what have we learned from that video? >> it was something i can't use all throughout that commissioner rosenworcel had a very defined views on

we met with sponsors of the legislation, republican senator susan collins democratic senator amy klobuchar representatives diana degette, a democrat, and tom rooney, a republican. can you explain this to americans? you have something that's truly life saving. you have both parties agreeing on it, yet it cannot get brought to a vote. >> i don't know what has to happen for people to recognize that this has to happen. >> why would we turn our backs on these patients and on the medical community who needs this help when we know something works? >> reporter: why does it take months and months? why not today? >> i've been in congress 16 years. i have never seen a congress where it was more difficult to pass legislation. i think you should call the leadership and ask them why they haven't brought this bill up for a vote. >> reporter: so we did. we showed up at speaker of the house john boehner's weekly press briefing. why is it that legislation that everybody agrees is desperately needed is taking so long to pass? >> the congress is working on this. the senate is getting ready to move a bill. the

. >> host: senator amy klobuchar asked about competition and mergers. >> what role do you think the fcrshould play to insure adequate competition in the communications market? >> guest: i think that increasingly we're going to see more and more intermodal competition, so making sure more wireless spectrum is available so there can be more competition from wireless is a good place to start. >> okay. want to add anything? >> senator, i would build on that by saying to the extent the commission can do so, it should make sure the rules of the road don't differentiate between the particular technology that is used. i think a lot of times the commission is dealing with regulations that apply to telecommunications carriers but not to cable providers, to cable providers but not to wireless providers, and to the extent those industries are competing in the same space, i think it's important to have technological neutrality in order to insure everyone is competing on a level playing field. >> host: amy schatz, what have we learned from that video? >> guest: it was something i think you saw throug

so first, talk to amy klobuchar in terms of what's happening in freddie and fan yifment second, go to.h.a. and talk about harp and hamp. those are the two homeowner assistance programs. host: senator isakson represents georgia as a republican. he's in his second term in the senate. he serves on committees including foreign relations, commerce, science and transportation. also help, which is the health, education, labor and pension. he has a career as a realtor. he began a business back in 1967 opening the first cobb county office of a small family-owned real estate business called north sidereal -- north side realty. senator isakson, i want to talk to you about mini unions. you slammed the federal labor boards approval of a new union for the bergdorf goodman shoe department. tell me what micro unions are and why are you opposed to them? guest: we have had a labor law for the over 80 years. 70% of the votes went favorably for those unions. but the national labor reproliferations board just approved last week a request by local 1102 in new york to organize the shoe department in bergdor