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congresswoman jan schakowsky, inner city gun violence is a big part of this issue.ed, but i have two moms, one who lost a child of 13 years old, and another 19 years old who are with me from my suburban community of evanston, illinois. and so this is everywhere. enough is enough. i think that we have a package from the white house supported by members of congress, supported by gunowners, and even nra members, at least part of it, that we can move forward, and not to do so is a travesty. and what are we saying to hadiya and her mother that we aren't going to act, not to mention the parents of the 20 kids at sandy hook. we can't do this anymore. >> congressman ellison, gun safety is expected to be a part of president obama's speech tomorrow night. how important is it for the president in your opinion to stay on top of this, and how much of a strong point does he have to make, and would it have an impact? your thoughts. >> i think the president has to lead on this issue. he has been doing that. and i expect he is going to make a strong statement. i think he is going to

actually signed on to this and is one of the people that actually introduced it is congresswoman jan schakowsky as i mentioned i want to read how she describes this type of cyber encroachment she says asking for someone's path or is like asking for a key to their home privacy is a basic right that all americans share and one that we should act to protect this legislation set boundaries no one seeking an educational or job opportunity should have to worry that their personal passport information will be required as a condition of their involvement or their employment decisions an accurate description. of their own good analogy. the beyond this legislation the justice department has been a look at this to see if there are existing laws that would make this kind of snooping illegal and that is the problem again is that the dividing line between your personal and professional lives is breaking down increasingly in the arab social media and employers and then not only are they asking to look at this information but oftentimes when people are employed they're asked to sign a non disparagement rule th

protect your internet privacy congressman eliot engel and michael grimm along with congresswoman jan schakowsky have reintroduced a bill called the social networking online protection act or that prevents employers schools and universities from forcing people to give their social networking passwords to them so is this the first step in protecting online freedom well tim carr is a senior director and strategy yet for effect. joins me now to answer that question and their town given all this stuff but pepper insists the legislation that we're snaking their way through congress recently i think a lot of people are having serious criticisms about congress's willingness to defend internet privacy how likely is it that this legislation is going to be passed well the person. that they tried to get this through. well in congress expired before it was passed so they're reintroducing it again in the new congress now it seems to me like a no brainer right why should an employer be allowed to ask for your online address and your logon and look at your social media accounts i mean it's it's sort of like ha

congresswoman jan schakowsky is going to join us later. from ohio will be our guest in studio at the top of the next hour. we'll talk about the pope and what's ahead for the catholic church with father thomas reese former editor of america magazine. but first -- >> this is the "full court press." >> other headlines making news on this tuesday. trouble at maker's mark. the kentucky bourbon maker has become so popular it is having trouble keeping up with demand. so to try to stretch the product, the distillery is lowering the alcohol content of the bourbon. they are watering it down to be able to make more bottles. "usa today" reporting they're diluting the famous red wax top bottles from 45% alcohol by volume to 42%. it is a drop from 90 to 84 proof. the company's growth over the last two years has been significantly greater than they were expecting. >> so go and screw it up by adding water to it. >> bill: i don't see that's the way to go. build another distillery so they can produce more. >> it would take a long time because they have to a

congressman jim moran of virginia joins us, along with congresswoman jan schakowsky of illinois and congressmanohn yarmuth. great to have all of you with us. congresswoman schakowsky, let's talk with you first. bloomberg's group says this was a real defeat for the national rifle association and the candidate who won last night seems to agree. do you agree? how much of a change in the wind is this in the fight for gun control? >> oh, there is no question that it was a victory for those forces against gun violence. a personal victory, of course, for robin kelly, who for a very long time has been a defender of laws that protect against gun violence. she is not new to this fight. but i think that there is now a different calculation that candidates have to make, that there is a real player that is willing to take on the nra, and that's the mayors against gun violence. >> sure. >> and other activists. so as members reach for the -- to put their card into vote, they're going to have to be thinking that the nra isn't just holding fort, but it is also that we're going to be there fighting against them.

and we're delighted to have with us congresswoman jan schakowsky, democrat of illinois.ood afternoon. congresswoman, we're on the verge of a hat trick of self-inflicted wounds. we've had the debt ceiling fight. we've had the fiscal cliff fight. now we've got the sequester. can i ask you, is this some kind of sick joke that elected representatives enjoy playing on the american people? because which other civilized nation enjoys subjecting its people to this kind of economic anxiety, what is it, every three months? >> you know, there might be some explanation if there were some political advantage to be gained, but you just read that poll that the poip partisanship that the republicans are showing is not going over well with the public. maybe the loss of 750,000 jobs and perhaps sending us into a double dip recession is at stake and the lives of middle class people and -- >> how about 4,000 children in new jersey not being given mmr vaccines? >> vaccines for children, and does anybody really think there isn't one loophole that could be closed? not one penny that could be e

caroline was invited to the state of the union by illinois congresswoman jan schakowsky.ay marks two-month shooting of the shooting at sandy hook elementary in newtown, connecticut. and today more than 5,000 people gathered at hartford, connecticut in the state at the capitol many in the crowd were wearing green to honor sandy hook just as members of congress did at the state of the union speech on tuesday. the people there in hartford were there to honor the children and the educators shot and killed there two months ago but they were also there with policy demands, with demands that the country not forget sandy hook and that we specifically turn what happened there and our outrage over it into change. a lobbyist who works for the nra's wisconsin branch last week told an audience that the organization the nra is now just waiting for what he called the connecticut effect to wear off in the country before they think things will return to business as usual. you can see why they would want to think that way. but they might be wrong. this might not wear off. >>> we cannot let

have almost one hundred of them in the united states house of representatives good people like jan schakowsky and it's just a whole long list and i and frankly i think that the teapot already was. you know it was an astro turf movement it was paid for by billionaires it was put together back by the tobacco industry twenty years ago as a as a as a movement to be. anti tobacco tax and those anti-tax and you know boston tea party like anything but i think that the average person who identifies themselves in the tea party or who showed up for these tea party events they believed that they were part of a populist movement and in fact to some extent it became certainly on the ground where the volunteers are showing up a populist movement it's just that they thought that the way to get more wealth for the middle class was to cut taxes for billionaires i think the reason why the tea party's not around anymore well i should pretty much don't see much activity is that after a year or so of reciting that you cut taxes for billionaires it'll help all the rest of us you know the people figured out that it

one minute to a champion on protecting women and protecting them from violence, congresswoman jan schakowsky. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from illinois is recognized for one minute. ms. schakowsky: violence is violence is violence and women are women are women. for the second year in a row, the republicans have advanced legislation that not only excludes additional protections for battered immigrant women and battered tribal women and battered gay women, protections that are included in the bipartisan senate bill, but they've advanced a bill that actually rolls back the central protection that are already the law of the land. we've heard from law enforcement, victims and victim service providers on the need to pass the improvements included in the bipartisan senate bill. and last week more than 1,300 organizations who represent and support millions of victims nationwide join together and said to bring the senate bill to the house floor for, quote, a vote as speedly as possible. we need to pass the senate-passed legislation so that victims of domestic and sexual violence don't ha

one minute to a champion on protecting women and protecting them from violence, congresswoman jan schakowsky. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from illinois is recognized for one minute. ms. schakowsky: violence is violence is violence and women are women are women. for the second year in a row, the republicans have advanced legislation that not only excludes additional protections for battered immigrant women and battered tribal women and battered gay women, protections that are included in the bipartisan senate bill, but they've advanced a bill that actually rolls back the central protection that are already the law of the land. we've heard from law enforcement, victims and victim service providers on the need to pass the improvements included in the bipartisan senate bill. and last week more than 1,300 organizations who represent and support millions of victims nationwide join together and said to bring the senate bill to the house floor for, quote, a vote as speedly as possible. we need to pass the senate-passed legislation so that victims of domestic and sexual violence don't ha

jan schakowsky. who else, peter? we know so many of them. a lot of them from california. i'm sorry.. maxine. >> maxine. >> nancy pelosi. naturally. >> bill: up to her. sam farr. good friend. i'm sure there are others. just ones that i think of -- without pausing to think. you expect the democrats to be, of course, on the more liberal side. among the most conservative, it has to be paul ryan right. followed by -- >> tricky for him because he missed a lot of votes last year on the campaign trail. but paul ryan is certainly a guy who ranks pretty highly on that. >> you know, it's interesting some of the most conservative members don't necessarily register as far. you see someone like justin amash, especially along libertarian-leaning republicans in some ways because if you look at maybe the foreign policy, they sort of get pointed deducted from there because there is sort of a ron paul model there. and also you have to keep in mind a lot of the guys break away from leadership a great deal. so that -- it creates a situation where someone like justin amash who is a conservative member do