can see jeanne shaheen, new hampshire, mark udall, kay hagan, all getting daylight between themselves and the president and the white house this week. a watergateis not but it is a stain on the a burningtion, embassy, leaving americans behind. that is why you had a cover-up in the stain will remain. like sexual assaults in the military. >> i am a veteran and a survivor of rape and harassment in the military. >> when any victim is forced to salute her attacker, clearly our system is broken. >> a sponsor of a bill that would take prosecution of sexual assault out of the chain of command and turned it over to a military prosecutor. we have had story after story after story. 37%. is this a good move echo >> i think it is. i think it is needed. , spoke with a victim last year a young woman, it was her superior who had done this. she said, what could i do? , iit is the person above me am in trouble. the only way you can do this is take it out of the chain of command. are doing those that it. severely punish them. >> the colonel in the navy had discretion under the bill. there are things you

don't forget, this also was added to the kind of fire in the flame as you had jeanne shaheen, schumer, bennett and franken send a letter totters asking them to scrutinize these groups even more. when a member congress sends an letter to an agency they pay attention. that was completely inappropriate. i would argue is undue influence trying to influence an agency over a group for political gain and for political purposes and it is wrong. >> not only that as the investigation goes on it seems like things look worse and worse. congressman, i would point out to you, just today, looking at the number of trips that the irs commissioner douglas shulman took to the white house during his timeeas commissioner, 187. i think we have a chart of this, showing that he went more than anyone else that was basically visiting the white house..3 all kinds of important people. you look at clint clint, janet napolitano, tim geithner, all kinds of people that would have so many different reasons to go to the white house and, meet with staff there. at the same time, his predecessor went only once. to me thi

today senator mccaskill and new hampshire senator jeanne shaheen wrote to chuck hagel urging him to makeprevention jobs what they call a nominative position, requiring rigorous application screening and interviewing process, direct involvement from the commander who would hand pick that person. joining me, member of the senate armed services committee, senator claire mccaskill. i cannot believe we are back here on this subject in this way once again. >> yeah. i think what we're seeing here is how far behind the military is in terms of changing their culture and recognizing this is a serious crime and that we need to prioritize going after the criminals, need to focus like a laser on that. clearly the people in these jobs are not the right people for these jobs. that's why we draw up legislation to codify requirement that they retrain, rescrub, reprioritize this particular line of work in the military and put strong leadership there instead of obviously folks that are being put there to end their careers or tread water. >> senator, the military is all about career advancement, all about m

senator jeanne shaheen just yesterday called for an audit of the irs.aucus asked that 501c4s be more closely examined, and in march of last year seven senate democrats, including shaheen, wrote the irs you urging it to impose strict tax on profits. we spoke to former commissioner mark emerson about that. >> the point here is it's totally appropriate for chairman baucus to raise that issue, but anything that the service would do in terms of looking at c4s should have been evenhanded, and it wasn't. that's the shame here. >> reporter: but even as far back as 1993 when the landmark legal foundation sued the irs, it found that audit requests from members of congress shall be shredded -- had been shredded by the irs. the irs said it couldn't find key files related to possible political manipulation of audits. all this very troubling, bill. bill: there are concerns, though, that the irs' planned expansion to accommodate its new responsibility for the affordable care act could be in danger. how is this working, doug? >> reporter: that's right. by the end of th

senator jeanne shaheen says she is hearing from a lot of small businesses in new hampshire that do not know how to comply with the law. senator rockefeller said he's of the belief that the health care act is probably the most complex piece of legislation ever passed by the congress. he said it -- quote -- "worries me because it's so complicated, and if it isn't done right the first time, it will just simply get worse." the secretary of h.h.s. says there may be a higher cost associated with getting into this market. she said -- mrs. boxer: for purposes of a little colloquy on what we are about to do here because it involves his amendment we're about to pass. mr. blunt: i am certainly interested in my amendment, and chairman i am interested in your bill. i can yield for a short discussion of that. mrs. boxer: well, what i need to do is just lay out what we're going to do. it's going to take me about six minutes at the maximum. mr. blunt: i will be here when you are done. mrs. boxer: thank you, because we are about to do your excellent bill which we're very pleased about. okay. i understa

we've got to defeat jeanne shaheen who thinks it is ok to use the irs as a political tool. [applause] we got to grow our majority in the senate, and by god, we will win back the majority in the house next year no matter what. every single one of us are going to stand together in that effort. it is my great privilege to introduce to you the chairman of the republican national committee, a gentleman who i want you to know was one of the first people i called when i took this job and started asking him for help, and his immediate answer was, whatever we can do. whatever i can do. he has always answered the phone for us. he is the high new hampshire 100%. please welcome chairman reince priebus. [applause] >> well, thank you. thank you, jennifer. listen, you are all a special place, a special place in our history, a special place in our party. i'm from wisconsin, one of those places that likes to brag about the birth place, but tonight, new hampshire will be the birthplace of the republican party. that is coming from a cheese head, ok? [applause] you know, jennifer mentioned a c