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now, thankfully, two republican senators, senators george voinovich and george lemieux have refused tore had blockade any longer and because of their decision this small business jobs bill will finally pass. i want to thank them for their efforts because they understand, we simply don't have time anymore to play games, not just simply on this small business jobs bill. let me give you another example, right now, we could decide to extend tax relief for the middle class. right now we could decide that every american household would receive a tax cut to on the first $250,000 of their income. but once again, leads across the aisle are saying no. they want to hold these middle class tax cuts hostage until they get an additional tax cut for the wealthiest 2% of americans. we simply can't afford that. it would with mean borrowing $700 billion in order to fund these tax cuts for the very wealthiest americans. $700 billion to give a tax cut worth an average of $100,000 to millionaires and billionaires. and it is a tax cut economists say would do little to add momentum to our economy. now, i jus

on that small business tax cut, good news for the president, one retiring republican senator george voinovicht. that means that that tax cut could be on the president's desk by the end of this week. kate? >> mike vicara at the white house. >>> in this busy hurricane season, we're up to "i" now, "i" for igor. which went from a category 1 this morning to a major category 4. it's moving west, 1,000 miles from land. no threat to the u.s. mainland. >>> when we come back, a weekend of reflection on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. and the lingering debate that's touched a nerve. [ male announcer ] one look can turn the everyday into romantic. ♪ an accidental touch can turn ordinary into something more. moments can change anytime -- just like that. and when they do men with erectile dysfunction can be more confident in their ability to be ready with cialis for daily use. cialis for daily use is a clinically proven, low-dose tablet you take every day, so you can be ready anytime the moment is right. tell your doctor about your medical condition and all medications, and ask if you're healthy enoug

i was pleased to see the yesterday republican senator george voinovich of ohio said he would refuse to support this blockade any longer. so i don't want it said this country is really hurting and we don't have time anymore to play games. i could not agree more. was great i'm sorry did you fall asleep no no the president is somebody that can blow people up i want people that can blow the world up to be calm i don't want to get on t.v. like a you gotta stop both all right i want them both to happen we could make it work that's what makes people vote that's what he did on the campaign trail no he didn't . like hearing the conflict he was only was called you know the inspiration for the us people rise that want to get out off their butts and actually vote your he forgot obama obama back then was like oh hey. oh is this guy too calm to being president that was his thing this is stick ya go to therapy even vote for a car he grows you get a car may grow right you want crazy negro right here right ok well talk about crazy there's a crazy white guy that's just be in this has this guy gotten vir

george voinovich sided with democrats. a win for president obama, putting his $30 billion sll business bill on be track to pass. that means up to 300 billion in loans from community bankso barber shops and other small businesses nationwide. some get tax credits too. the recession cut into sales and banks cut off credit. >> what you're really looking at small businesses who are strapped for cash, that need some injection, some way thelp out. >> democrats hope voters give them political credit. >> main street, not wall street can begin to create the jobs we need to lead us out of this recession. >> conservatives disagree. >> now, you've got the tax increase that's coming up. that tax increase essentially wipes out the tax credit anyway. so we are exactly where we started. >> reporter: the income tax hike on the well off pushed by president obama would also hike rates on some small business. republicans are opposed. >> raising tax in this kind of economy, is a bad idea. >> reporter: and some democrats agree. >> it's pretty cl

. >> reporter: meantime, two senate republicans, george voinovich of iowa lemeiux of ohio, handing the president, sets aside 30 million in taxpayer funds for community banks to lend small businesses, a measure the g.o.p. had been filibustering since july. >> every week that we've waited to pass this bill has been another tough week for small businesses throughout our country. >> reporter: finally, on a procedural vote, senate democrats rejected a measure that president obama has identified as a top priority on his economic agenda, the permanent extension of tax credit that businesses receive for research and development. bret. >> bret: james rosen live on capitol hill. thank you. most presidents struggle with getting their nominees through the senate confirmation process, but some republicans are accusing president obama of bypassing the system to avoid a fight. white house correspondent wendell goler reports tonight while the president will bring his choice on board. she will be shaping a new government office instead of running it. >> in the end, there was less question about whether

george voinovich and george lemieux of florida.joined with democrats on tuesday to break the filibuster and they joined with them again today in support of this bill. democrats feel that this bill h help small businesses and provide a boost to the economy. what's in this bill? basically it's verse tax provisions, billions of dollars worth of tax provisions that republicans and democrats agree with. but the controversial part of the bill is a $30 billion loan fund. this loan fund would be used for small community banks and they would, in turn, take that money and give it to small businesses who could use that money to make more hires or do more renovations. republicans say that part of the bill amounts to another bailout similar to the bank bailout in 2008. this is a small business bailout. they feel a lot of those funds will be used on risky borrowers. most republicans except for two voted against. obviously you can tell i had to take out my ifb, so i can't hear you. i'll send it back to you. >> you know what that is? go ahead, put

ballot this year and don't have to worry about reaction -- >> and those two republicans were george voinovich of ohio and george lemieux of florida, who is not running for re-election. >> real quickly on elizabeth warren, you mentioned, this is the person that a lot of progressives twoont see heading that new consumer bureau. there's so the word she could be announced to that post this week in some way, shape, or form. what are you hearing? >> i think the white house is going to put her in that post, at least temporarily. i think at this point, when everyone's trying to rile up their base, they can't afford to zpa disappoint their base on that one. >> john harwood, thanks so much. >>> two years to the day today after the biggest bankruptcy in u.s. history, the debate is still raging. should lehman brothers have been saved? would that have maybe staved off the larger financial crisis? >> coming up next, a daily rundown exclusive, tim geithner, he was at the center the storm then in a different position. what did we learn from the lehman collapse and what's being done to restore confidence back

we firmly believe susan colins would have voted with us, had it been amount mall, george voinovich wouldryor voted with us as well. chris, the important thing to keep in mind about the study like you were talking about, it was never intended to inform the legislative process. it was always meant to be and sold us to as a wholly internal study for the dod to identify issues. go. to the politics question again. josh, what i don't understand, the american people overwhelmingly support open service. it is the one thing in our life that has really changed in terms of social issues it is not like abortion issues that take time to change or go back and forth. this one has been a pendulum swinging directly in one direction toward open service. why is the senate behind the public to on this? >> i think that behind the public because they always lag the public somewhat but also because we are in this incredibly polarized primary political climate now going to this november election. republicans are very, very concern and all they are concerned about is their base and among the base, that is probab

republican senator george voinovich from ohio is supporting the bill giving the democrats the 60 votes need to break the republican filibuster. luke russert is on capitol hill and, luke, tell us a little bit more about while senator voinovich decided to side with the democrats here. >> senator voinovich is retiring, tamron. he comes from ohio, a state that has a lot of small businesses. greatly benefit from this bill. what the white house hopes to do with this $30 million is spur small banks to open up their lending for small businesses. within this bill there is going to be a part of the bill in which banks that are worth less than $10 billion will get government funding to try to open up the credit markets for other small businesses and you'll also see a lot of tax breaks going to small businesses that want to remodel their shops or perhaps build an expansion to spur growth in the construction market. a lot of things in this $30 billion that the white house and congressional democrats will really move a lot in the way of job creation, especially in helping out small businesses. anoth

george voinovich promised he will join with democrats to get this all done.could be a huge victory at a time the democrats are looking for accomplishments here to talk about on the campaign trail as we hit the mid-term elections. will larry is the ceo of target labs and he met with president obama yesterday. and what you did is you were actually in a backyard and you had an opportunity to meet the president, talk face-to-face, you own a small business in the i.t. area, i guess just under 100 people. and the real question i want to ask you, as a small business owner here, what do you need for your business right now? >> well, actually, we do need additional breach capital to extend our business right now. this is what we need. and we tried to apply with a number of financial institutions and bank, but they are unwilling to lend money to small businesses at this time. i was able to find the small loan that was sba backed and this is how we managed to get small breach investment into our company and we immediately used it to create additional jobs, actually we h

one of the voices speaking up is george voinovich who bolted from the republican party and said he will the senate small business bill. this is what he told the "washington post" the other day. he said most of the messaging didn't amount to anything. we don't have time anymore more messaging, because this country is hurting. >> but he is not running for re-election, so you are more brave when you are not on the ballot and he was clearly critiquing his own party. >> and give him a shout out to critique his own party and tell the truth, because so many of the debates are fundamentally dishonest and not about policy or substance and get it filtered through bipartisanship, and that is frustrating so many folks, republicans and independents. >> with the polls closing in many states voting in primaries tonight, as we go to break, look at the results from new hampshire so far, kelly ayotte over ovide lamontagne, i want to caution you he had the momentum coming in, but that is 3% of the voting in new hampshire. a lot of the counting to do. six other states and the district of columbia voting to

we had one republican after a month, a solid month of filibuster, george voinovich of ohio, retiringican, said i'm tired of the game playing here, i'm going to vote with the democrats to help small businesses. that's what it took, a whole month. now we have a food safety bill i've been working on for over a year. 19 democrats and republicans support it, one republican, tom coburn, a medical doctor from oklahoma, has stopped the food safety bill. another filibuster. you know what it gets down to is we can count, and we know we don't have 60 votes for our tax position. we want to basically say after the election when we still face a deadline by the end of the year, we'll take up all these tax issues. that to me is the only realistic way to address it. >> you don't have all the democratic votes in the senate either, do you? >> well, here's what i think -- some democrats would say, well, perhaps we would do it a little bit differently. but if that position doesn't prevail, and i don't think it will, then the ultimate choice is going to be whether or not we have the $250,000 income thresh

a couple of georges, george lemieux from florida and george voinovich of ohio have voted with the democrats to move the small business jobs bill, something very positive in the job market in this country. we will tell you more about it later in the show. >>> this, i admit this isn't the biggest story in america but it is the one that has me fired up because i think it sends a very poor message to young people in this country. the perverse conservative hatred for president obama has infiltrated public schools all across this country. it's a debate that's being held in every school district. i thought we had this store ray year ago but here we are again. for the second straight year, the president of the united states took time to given a uplifting, positive, forward-thinking message to american school kids for the second straight year. conservatives what are they doing? they are trying to protect young, impressionable ears and minds from his message. here is the deal. in aiken county, south carolina, parents were given the choice to opt their children out of the president's education speech

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. >> and we now know after hearing george voinovich being the whistle-blower last week complaining abouthe party messaging, blocking good legislation on small businesses, it takes either retirement or indictment for republicans to come clean? >> i thought it was interesting, the two votes they goat -- they got two votes to get the small business tax cuts through. and they're from republicans that aren't running for re-election. i think that's very revealing, that's basically been -- either you're in this weird -- this little beach head of moderate republicans in the northeast or you're retiring, those are the only ways to vote with the democrats or the president, no matter what the actual substantive agenda is. i think from the beginning, we'll see wisely or not. terribly for the country, but i think wisely polically, the idea is that you just say no. >> nobody retires from the gop family. msnbc contributor chris hayes of the nation. thank you, chris. good to talk to you. >> thanks, keith. >>> another whistle-blower today. she's known around here, christine, when i think about you, i don

oft-mentioned possibilities are olympia snowe, susan collins, scott brown, george voinovich, and dickom the same state, the state of maine. so that's why you had this event in portland, maine, organized by the service members' legal defense network, and the pop star about whom every continues to say, get her as a guest on your show, to which i continue to show, boy, i'd love to. >> i'm here because don't ask, don't tell is wrong. it's unjust. and fundamentally, it is against all that we stand for as americans. in any workplace, there are tensions. there's even more possibility to have tension when you're fighting for your life. but i'm more concerned that john mccain and other republican senators are using homophobia as a defense in their argument, as the nexus of this law, openly gay soldiers affect unit cohesion. like, like it's okay to discriminate or discharge gay soldiers because "we are homophobic." "we, we are uncomfortable, and we do not agree with homosexuality, and i can't focus on the field of duty while i am fighting." >> in less than 24 hours, the united states senate wil

. >> and we now know after hearing george voinovich being the whistle-blower last week complaining about the blocking of good legislation on small businesses that it takes either time or retirement for republicans to come clean? >> i thought it was interesting today they got two votes to get the small business tax cuts bill through. and they were both from republicans that aren't running from reelection. i think that's very revealing. and that's basically been either you're in this little beachhead of moderate republicans in the northeast, or you're retiring. those are the only ways to vote with the democrats or with the president, no matter what the actual substantive agenda. i think from the beginning, you know, we'll see wisely or not. certainly terribly for the country. but wisely politically. the idea is you just say no. >> nobody retires from the gop family msnbc contributor chris hayes of the nation. thank you, chris. good to talk to you. >> thanks, keith. >>> there was another republican whistle-blower today, this one telling the truth about the woman whose campaign she once mana

it was able to break closure on tuesday with george voinovich of ohio and both thought it was necessary for this bill to move forward. democrats tried to bring this up in july and it was filibustered back then because the gop see it as a continuation of a bailout policy. the bill costs about 30 billion and within this bill an aggressive effort by democrats to try to get money to smaller community banks, banks worth $10 million or less to try to have a loan fund which some experts say could create, leverage $300 billion worth of loans for small businesses. what do they really want small businesses to do? they want them to remodel and they want them to expand and make new hires and also a provision in there which a long-time investor within small businesses would not have to pay capital gains tax and you can deduct from a small business if you're self-employment tax. there is a lot of tax relief and incentive to loan and get money back into the market and democrats say it will help new businesses and a lot of republicans say, no, a continuation of bailout policies but it will pass today.

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now, i was pleased to see that yesterday, republican senator george voinovich of ohio said he would refuse to support this blockade any longer. senator voinovich said, "this country is really hurting," and "we don't have time anymore to play games." i could not agree more. i understand there's an election coming up. but the american people didn't send us here to think about our jobs. they sent us here to think about theirs. and there are small businesses right now who are putting off plans to hire more workers because this bill is stalled. that's not the kind of leadership this country deserves. and i hope we can now move forward to get small business owners the relief they need to start hiring and growing again. and while we're on the subject of economics, i also want to make an announcement about my economic team. this week, christina romer returned to berkeley after a tireless, outstanding tenure as chair of the council of economic advisers. christy is brilliant, she is dedicated, and she was part of the team that helped save this country from a depression. so we're going to miss her de

he praised two republican senators, the georges lemieux and voinovich for allowing the small business tax bill to go forward in terms of a vote on the senate floor. it's believed it will pass tomorrow in the senate. here is more from the president late today. >> while i am grateful for this progress, it should not have taken this long to pass this bill. at a time when small business owners are still struggling to make payroll and they are still holding off hiring, we put together a plan that would give them some tax relief and make it easier for them to take out loans. >> but the republicans say there is just a fundamental disagreement here that they just don't believe in more what they believe is stimulus spending and they don't like the idea of raising taxes on anybody when the recovery is so slow, shep. >> shepard: and some new arguments really today, mike, about extending the bush era tax cuts. >> that's right. president obama believes that we simply cannot afford extending the tax cuts for those making more than $250,000 a year. he believes that by giving everybody a tax cut on t

now, i was pleased to see that yesterday, republican senator george voinovich of ohio said he would refuse to support this blockade any longer. senator voinovich said, "this country is really hurting," and "we don't have time anymore to play games." i could not agree more. i understand there's an election coming up. but the american people didn't send us here to think about our jobs. they sent us here to think about theirs. and there are small businesses right now who are putting off plans to hire more workers because this bill is stalled. that's not the kind of leadership this country deserves. and i hope we can now move forward to get small business owners the relief they need to start hiring and growing again. and while we're on the subject of economics, i also want to make an announcement about my economic team. this week, christina romer returned to berkeley after a tireless, outstanding tenure as chair of the council of economic advisers. christy is brilliant, she is dedicated, and she was part of the team that helped save this country from a depression. so we're going to miss her de

i was pleased to see that yesterday, republican senator george voinovich said he would refuse to supportde anymore. senator voinovich said that this country is really hurting, and we don't have time anymore to play games. i could not agree more. i understand there's an election coming up. the american people didn't send us here to think about our jobs. they sent us here to think about theirs. there are are small businesses right now putting off plans to hire more workers, because this bill is stalled. it is not the kind of leadership that this country deserves. i hope that we can now move forward to give small businesses the relief they need to start hiring and growing again. while we are on the subject of economics, i want to make an announcement ability my economic team. this week christina romer returned to berkeley after a tireless and outstanding tenure as chair of the council of economic advisers. christie is brilliant and dedicated and part of the team that helped save this country from a depression. we will miss her dearly, but today, i am happy to announce austan goolsbee as her

now, i was pleased to see that yesterday, republican senator george voinovich of ohio said he would refuse to support this blockade any longer. senator voinovich said, "this country is really hurting," and "we don't have time anymore to play games." i could not agree more. i understand there's an election coming up. but the american people didn't send us here to think about our jobs. they sent us here to think about theirs. and there are small businesses right now who are putting off plans to hire more workers because this bill is stalled. that's not the kind of leadership this country deserves. and i hope we can now move forward to get small business owners the relief they need to start hiring and growing again. and while we're on the subject of economics, i also want to make an announcement about my economic team. this week, christina romer returned to berkeley after a tireless, outstanding tenure as chair of the council of economic advisers. christy is brilliant, she is dedicated, and she was part of the team that helped save this country from a depression. so we're going to miss her de

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