after 18 years in this senate could you pick jon kyl in a lineup of republican senators?ne could. everyone remembers the not intended to be a factual statement guy which makes it more amazing a republican senator made jon kyl's same mistake. here's orrin hatch talking about planned parenthood. >> about 90% of what they do is abortion. >> from what with i understand, that's the point, you don't understand. >> tony perkins the family research council guy responds by saying, correct when what senator hatch said is very much not correct. back in reality, 3% of what planned parenthood does is abortions and 3% is not about 95% unless you just round up everything the to the nearest 95 and it doesn't make sense. we asked senator hatch's office to a response to this. a spokesman e-mailed us to say that senator hatch misspoke. weirdly he also said and i'm not kidding. i'm going to the read it directly here because i'm directly quoting his spokesman. it doesn't take standing in front of the hoover dam wearing a construction hat, a construction hat, it doesn't take standing in front

here's senator jon kyl questioning secretary geithner. >> let me ask you a couple other questions to get to the question of how to do tax reform. you talked about lowering rates and broadening the base and so on. the president had a good statement in the state of the union. everybody does their fair share and plays by the same set of rules. that's the basic premise here. how does the proposal in the budget meet this test when it eliminating the manufacturing deduction for certain taxpayers but then doubles it for certain other taxpayers but not for other manufacturing? >> good question. not everybody playing by the same set of rules. >> good question. >> we preserve a core objective, which is to make sure that we're improving incentives for designing, creating and building stuff in the united states. >> i know he of a chance to debate those then. you're right to say we're proposing to preserve a very limited number of core incentives for investment in the united states. we're doing that because we think there's a compelling economic case for doing that, and we're going to eliminate d

a colleague of yours jon kyl went to cpac and tweeted this quote.s not exactly romney mania right now." what does that say that jon kyl says the electorate at cpac which are the voters that stuff the ballot box for you, are not too enthusiastic about the man folks in the establishment feel is the best chance for the gop to retake the white house? >> i'll be speaking there tomorrow. i expect to see a lot of enthusiasm for anyone who is running against barack obama. the people are there hoping to see the next president of the united states. also the next vice president of the united states. we'll hear sharp messages from all of the candidates who are still in the race for president. there is going to be incredible excitement and they'll leave there united to whoever is on the ballot against barack obama. an effort by this president to go way beyond places that government ought to ever go. >> you're in the establishment over there in the senate and leadership. does romney have it in his gut to relate to these folks who are such activists? >> i have a g

dave hoppe was my chief of staff, and now he is the chief of staff for jon kyl, anb when we would have the sessions, quite often hundreds of nominees and work through the list and go through and say to clinton's people, and congratulations people or erskine bowles or whoever it was, and look, you can do these 100 or so, but these six, we have a problem. and this one in particular if you do it, the roof is going i blow off. and for the most part, we gc the ones needed done that way and one time he did that with the one we said don't do that and he did it, and all hell broke loose and it causes bad feelings, but i do, you know, there is a reason for that. i do think that advice and consent, and that would be interesting to how senator byrd would react, but a the senate does have a role. if the senate is abusing the rule, then calmer heads should sit down to say, how can we improve this process, but the main thing i would say about is get away from the constitution and the people and the personalities involved and it does really exacerbate the process. and we do need a hearing on how to

jon kyl blasted the white house for, this noting it's breaking a promise to not provide such incentivesexchange for what he called dubious commitments of cooperation. kyl adding, "i am deeply disappointed but not surprised by the aboutface. this is par for the course for administration with record of misleading congress and disregarding u.s. national security. while u.s. officials say north korea insisted the food aid be included one of many questions hanging over the field. including will the six party talk get resumed to find out whether or not the nuclear program will really get this handled. >> bret: thank you. stocks took a tumble today. the dow lost 53. the s&p 500 fell 6-1/2. the nasdaq dropped 20. gasoline went up a penny-and-a-half overnight. the national average is now $3.73 a gallon. coin settled over $107 a barrel. gasoline prices aren't the only thing going up in washington. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel. >> leading republicans continueed their blitz, blaming president obama's policy for the soaring prices at the pump. >> they seem determined to undertake p

in fact, senator jon kyl, republican of arizona, is going the other way.has a bill to really crack down on what he calls a "social pathology." >> it's so easy to do. it's so easy for kids to do. it's so addictive. and it has been frequently demonstrated that there's a lot of graft and corruption in this. >> kyl's bill aims to choke off the money by prohibiting all u.s. banks and credit card companies from handling any online gambling transactions. >> even if you curtail the credit cards, people who want to do this are gonna find a way. >> we may not be able to stop it all, but if we can stop the major part of it that's coming from offshore, i think we will have done something very, very good. >> kyl bristles at how today law enforcement does nothing to go after offshore operators. this is a big convention of the international gambling industry going on in las vegas, and there is an entire pavilion devoted just to internet gaming. and many of those companies and their top executives are here. how can this be so open if what they're doing is illegal? why doe

>> jon kyl? >> good afternoon.i am here to speak against the installation of parking meters in my neighborhood, as per the 17th consultant parking management plan. i live on the 3200 block of 18th street, between fall some and charlotte. -- full some -- folsome and charlotte. parking has always been a bit of a challenge, but it is not impossible. it all works out and we can coexist. this plan will lot ease the situation for the residents at all and it will place a greater burden on us through meter rates and finds that will come from the inevitable for getting to feed the meters. this plan does not create any additional parking spaces. but it will increase competition for those parking spaces. the initial plan calls for a low rate meters, 25 cents per hour, with no time limit and are payable in advance. this will then buy computer usage into the neighborhood. as it is also noted, this neighborhood is richly served by transit. so, this plan will only make it worse, residents. provisions for the residents are inadequ

jon kyl in the senate. has said this. >> is this your reading? they really don't think -- maybe you are right. i'll leave it at that. they don't think helping the employer have a lower cost of labor, right, which is what we're really talking about. >> that's part of it. >> is healthy for hiring people. >> but so that's what the president is talking about. don't muck it up. this is the fight coming up. if you look at the cbo report, it did not -- it assumed that there was an extension of the payroll tax. so if you extend it, you bring the unemployment rate down. >> a slope towards -- >> so we're still looking at 8.3% unemployment rate for january. the dow jones through the roof back to where it was before bush screwed things up. let's look at a reminder that obama inherited a troubled economy. take a look at this chart. from the bureau of labor statist statistics. it shows steep job losses under president george w. bush right there in the red. and shown here in the red. once barack obama became president, the chart turns blue. look at it. see it b

. >> in addition on february 2nd, 2005, senator jon kyl one of your colleagues made the following statement on the floor regarding the gonzalez nomination, and he said, "when someone is qualified and has the confidence of the president, unless there's some highly disqualifying factor brought to our attention we should aseto t president's request. what's your opinion on that? >> i make it a point not to speak for my colleagues. i don't know the totality of circumstances in which my friend senator kyl made that statement. i will say first of all any senator may decide to grant or withhold his or her vote to confirm or not to confirm anyone for any reason just as he or she is free to vote or not vote for any particular budget or appropriations act or anything else. but secondly, and perhaps more importantly, the fact that there is delay, the fact there has beenay

here's senator jon kyl questioning secretary geithner. >> let me ask you a couple other questions to get to the question of how to do tax reform. you talked about lowering rates and broadening the base and so on. the president had a good statement in the state of the union. everybody does their fair share and plays by the same set of rules. that's the basic premise here. how does the proposal in the budget meet this test when it eliminates the manufacturing deduction for certain taxpayers but then doubles it for certain other taxpayers but not for other manufacturing? >> good question. not everybody playing by the same set of rules. >> good question. >> while we serving a very limited number -- >> stop there. we're talking about picking winners and losers. you would increase or create tax incentives for building advanced technology vehicles at the expense of -- not for other kind of vehicles, correct? >> you're putting me in a slight difficult position because i said in the next two weeks we'll late out a more comprehensive set of proposals here. you're right to say we are proposing

government just doesn't work and this is headed for failure to a member of the gang republican senator jon kyl said quote the reality is that as of today we haven't made much progress and time's a wastin and quote and a nother member of the gang democratic senator dick durbin said quote where are we today literally days away from the expiration where no where fantastic here's what tom had to say recently on the failure of so-called gang government. no one is likely to be happy with what comes out of the gang of twelve but what else should be expected from a government by again so i mean gang government doesn't work gang government does has never worked the founders of the framers didn't have gang government in mind it's not in the constitution and it's frankly unconstitutional as roger just pointed out it's really just a way to pass the buck for example the the base closure commission congress knew this was this is back you know what almost a decade ago it seems that congress knew that there with all these military bases around the country and because there were so many of them in so many cong

to cut federal jobs and freeze workers salaries through 2014 the bill by senators con mccain and jon kyleplace about 110 billion in cuts set to start next year. supporters say the pay freeze is to avoid slashes to the itself defense. the house passed a bill wednesday night to halt federal raises through next year. >>> a federal judge denied a request by occupy d.c. protesters for an injunction to prevent police from seizing their tents and evicting them from their camp sites. that's according to the washington times. protesters have been camping in mcpherson square since october. monday u.s. park police began enforcing the no-camping rule at the district parks. police must give protesters a two day warning. >>> police in virginia are trying to figure out who shot and killed a pet dog earlier this week. this happened in the 8300 block of magnolia court around 3:00 in the afternoon. police say they're not sure if the dog was in his own yard at the time of the incident. they believe this was not a random attack and are currently investigating leads. if you have any information on this case,

when senator jon kyl says 90% of what planned parenthood does is abortion. then has his office put out a statement, that was not intended to be a factual statement. or when congressman cliff stearns writes on a conservative website that defunding planned parenthood should be a fiscal and moral priority for the whole country. months later in september, same congressman, congressman stearns launching an investigation of planned parenthood with the call for records that stretches back two decades and covers every state and local planned parenthood affiliate with explicit constructions for how the documents produced in response to his investigation are to be photocopied and labeled and filed and boxed. congressman stearns initially set a deadline of two weeks for planned parenthood to comply with that. this week we got more news about congressman stearns' investigation of planned parenthood. and this is the news that turned the internets into a blazing bobbin fire of outrage. a breast cancer foundation, the largest in the country, susan g. komen for the cure, th

there is not exactly romney mania right now says senator jon kyl of arizona.ng to get it for him, says senator demint. he's going to have to work really hard to pull things together, senator boozman. these are all republican senators that are saying this about who is supposed to be the inevitable nominee at a time president obama is on the other side of the political spectrum. today announcing the need to help americans who have been foreclosed on. now contrast that with what romney thinks we should do about the mortgage crisis. watch the president here. >> you work and you save your entire life to buy a home. that's where you raise your family. that's where your kids' memories are formed. that's your stake, your claim on the american dream. there's no excuse for doing nothing to help more families avoid foreclosure. that's not who we are. we are americans and we look out for one another. >> don't try and stop the foreclosure process. let it run its course and hit the bottom. >> you couldn't have a more striking contrast. >> right. well, here's the thing. mitt

. >> jon kyl who is in the senate leadership had a very interesting quote.id it was quoted in politico, this is not exactly a mitt romney-mania right now. how can you tell me what is going on on the ground? is this mitt romney-mania gaining traction? is there going to be good reception to the former governor of massachusetts's message? >> well the reason that he probably said that is that there was a lot of red meat yesterday with the crowd that was -- that seemed please to hear some pretty sharp speeches particularly one from minority leader mitch mcconnell who launched several sharp arrows at president obama over all sorts of issues, the contraception issue, the contraception coverage built into the health care mandate with the -- was a big issue that drew big responses and mentioned quite often yesterday. that is probably why he said that. >> jamie, i've been to a few of these things and you're there right now and i can tell you the first one i went to is right after obama had been elected. you can see there was a lot of energy in that room. gauge that en

jon kyl in the senate. >> is this your reading? they really don't think -- maybe you are right.leave it at that. they don't think helping the employer have a lower cost of labor, right, which is what we're really talking about. is healthy for hiring people. >> but so that's what the president is talking about. don't muck it up. this is the fight coming up. if you look at the cbo report, it did not -- it assumed that there was an extension of the payroll tax. so if you extend it, you bring the unemployment rate down. >> a slope towards -- >> so we're still looking at 8.3% for january. the dow jones through the roof back to where it was before bush screwed things up. let's look at a a troubled econy. take a look at this chart. it shows steep job losses under president george w. bush right there in the red. and shown here in the red. once barack obama became president, the chart turns blue. look at it. see it begins to show reverse and job losses eventually become job gains above the line. we all learned to read those graphs in school. the stuff above means it's shooting up positiv

they are senator jon kyl, senator jon barrasso, and senator craipo. but last night they announced a deal had been struck. >> we agreed, the congress is clear that we will have it sign, we have reached full agreement. >> reporter: needless to say they are brewing the coffee a little stronger here on the hill after a late night last night but this clears the path to extend the payroll tax holiday for 160 million americans for the rest of the year, to extend unemployment benefits and make sure that doctors are properly reimbursed for medicare patients. jenna: i hope cough eye was the only thing they were drinking and that's how they reached the negotiation. it's a tough job. we have a president's day holiday that is coming up. you're probably not off, how does this workout with getting the payroll tax extension in our paychecks the next couple of weeks. >> reporter: speaker john boehner will do a news conference in a couple of minutes. we may get a better sense of what timing he is thinking about. the house will go first. the house may vote tomorrow or s

ph morning there is a group of republican senator, including john mccain and minority whip jon kyl who front of the microphones. they are announcing their plans to avoid about $500 billion in military cuts. shan and bream is live on capitol hill. what are they proposing this morning. >> reporter: thanks to our fabulous senate producer we got a sneak peak a koppee o copy of the bill. we understand that senators rubio, ayiott and cornyn will be involved. they want to freeze federal worker pay, let 5% of the federal workforce go through attrition. and they also want to make sure that the cuts don't kick in until january of 2014. they think those measures will buy them some time and avoid the cuts that even the president's defense secretary says could be catastrophic to our current armed forces, martha. martha: it's very interesting, because the president and the administration wants to allow that federal pay freeze to go. they want to open it back up again and open it a half a percentage point increase. what kind of push back are we seeing to this plan. >> reporter: senate majority leader

key negotiators, jon kyl, with the national debt piling they will not be on board. they're concerned if you do not put the money normally go into the social security trust fund by continuing this payroll tax cut that is money not going into the social security trust fund. there is still concerns here but looks like it will go through, bill. bill: thanks. ed henry at the white house. martha: president obama firing up crowds at a milwaukee manufacturing plant saying that he believes that our economy is now on the right track. listen. >> the economy is getting stronger! the recovery is speeding up!. [applause] we're moving in the right direction! and now we have to do everything in our power to keep our foot on the gas! the last thing we can afford to do is go back to the same policies that got us into this mess. martha: but folks living in key swing states for the 2012 election may not agree with the president in terms how well the economy is turning around right now. here's a map that shows the 10 battle ground states we'll be focused on all the way through november.

it is my distinct privilege to join with my beloved friend, jon kyl to speak in honor of the centennial anniversary of arizona's statehood. 100 years ago on february 14, 1912, the state of arizona was officially admitted to the union, effectively completing the contiguous lower 48 states. americans today recognize arizona as the thriving center of the sunbelt, known for its ability to attract businesses, manufacturing, and tourists from around the world. the valley of the sun alone supports about 4 million people and our state capital, phoenix, is the nation's sixth-largest city. compared to its humble beginnings, arizona has enjoyed tremendous growth and productivity. but this wasn't always so. arizona's history began over 10,000 years ago with the migration of early native american tribes to the region. for centuries, the anasazi, and other peoples flourished in the forested highlands and son nor ran desert lowland. many of the twiebs ar tribes ard decendants of these ancient peoples. it wasn't until later in the towns of tubac and tucson that the land of the people was first reshaped

. -- senator jon kyl. the cost of failing is even higher because that number just grows and grows. so we can keep burying of the cult -- the true cost with the false expectation we are going to make these cuts and we are not. we now have the means to end the parental crisis without adding to the debt that is putting our seniors at risk. we can finally eliminate the $300 billion debt that is accruing every decade. this is offsetting anticipated cuts with expenditures. i think it is a fair accounting issue and we ought to take care of it. this funding mechanism has gained support from members of both parties. it allows us a more accurate accounting for future government expenditures without increasing the deficit. we have a choice, all of us sitting here have a choice right now as to whether we deny and for this problem once again, even for a year or two, leaving seniors not sure what to expect and leaving doctors uncertain about whether they should continue to take medicare patients or not, and what their updates would look like and what their cuts would look like. it was offered fo