i wanted to thank jessica laymen, up from the senior action network, and karen bass or putting effort into the report as well. >> thank you. is the overhead working? srsupervisor mar: there it goes. >> thank you for the opportunity of addressing the subject of seniors in sro hotels. it has been important to our society for quite some time. 30 years ago, they work -- an article was run in which they were called he lists hotels. supervisor lenny passed emergency legislation. they were written by warren in cold. despite the good intentions, this is our apartment, in terms of housing code violations. in the late 1990's, a rash of fires on of -- in sro's came along. two years ago, the board of supervisors along with the health department asked our department to work more collaborative meet and assume more funding. this decision has been fruitful. working together closely, housing inspection services has found an additional 250,000, 75% have been corrected. >> i believe that we have copies of this -- of this for each member of the community. -- kennedy. the violations we had found, since we

. >> joining me now is karen bass and jared bernestein, a former chief economist for joe biden. thank you for being here. congresswoman, do you have any sense at all that your republican colleagues are willing to come to the table to get this economy up and running again? >> i wish i had good news for you, that sounded so good at the beginning of your show when you talked about it. don't believe so. they started off last year saying their number one goal is to make sure the president failed and u now we're a few months from the election, i would love to say i would love a turn of heart but i don't have in evidence of that. the other thing is until we take back the house of representatives, the republicans do control the agenda, so democrats would like to put forward the entire package of the president's jobs act, but the president cannot do that as long as the tea party have control of the republicans and they're in control of the house of representatives. >> what does this job report say to you jared? >> it says what we should have done a year ago was to take out policy insuran

joining me now, congresswoman karen bass, democrat from california. and alicia menendez, host of "huffpost live." thanks for being here this evening. >> thanks for having us on. >> congresswoman, let me ask you. one of the men running for president profited from jobs that were sent overseas. are we on uncharted territory here? >> well, actually, i don't think we are. and i think romney has been pretty specific. he has said that he supports paul ryan's budget. he has said that the arizona immigration law was a model. so i think he has been clear. it's just that he doesn't like to be pinned down in interviews sometimes. but if he supports the paul ryan budget, he believes in ending medicare as we know it. >> that's very specific. >> yep. >> let me ask you something, alicia. the treasurer of a major super-pro romney super pac was spotted in the lobby of the retreat this weekend. he just happened to be there. i guess he just happened to be in the neighborhood of utah. his name is charlie spies and he's treasurer of restore our future, the super pac that h

i'm joined now by congresswoman karen bass, a democratic from california and a member of the budget committeetion funding drys up in four short days. in los angeles alone, there are i believe 90 bridges that are rated structurally deficient. what do you tell your constituents who have to drive over them every day? >> well, i tell them that we are here fighting every day to get that transportation bill to pass and i have to tell you that you know in the house, the house hasn't even been able to agree on a bill that the speaker purr posed. john boehner couldn't even get his own caucus to agree on a transportation bill, but i am hopeful though because one of the things that has happened over the last year and a half with this new congress is that they wait until the very last moment and come together and do one of two things. they either create a deal or do an extension. so friday's d-day. d-day on highway bill and student loans. >> indeed. president eisenhower, a republican after all, signed into law the construction of 41,000 miles of roads as we now know, the interstate highway system. but th