anyway, a colleague of his later pointed out kyl's mother likely needed such services at one point.e was the fiasco over aide for states affected by hurricane sandy. 67 house republicans voted against providing flood insurance against sandy victims. 37 of them have a history of supporting aid after natural disasters when their own states were affected. missouri congressman sam graves was one of them. but here is what he said in 2011 when his state was dealing with a severe flood damage. quote, i urge the president to a approve this assistance without delay. many communities along the river have been stretched to the limit preparing for and fighting this unprecedented flood. finally, oklahoma senator jim inhofe in 2006 had this to say during a debate on gay marriage again. >> as you see here, and i think this is the most important prop we'll have during the entire debate, my wife and i have been married 47 years. we have 20 kids and grandkids. i'm really proud to say that in the recorded history of our family we've never had a divorce or any kind of a homosexual relationship. >> so m

first former senator john kyl of arizona.9 he wanted to cut out the part that required employers to cover basic maternity care because it made everyone's insurance more expensive. >> i don't need maternity care, and so requiring that to be in my insurance policy is something that i don't need and will make the policy more expensive. >> that's big thinking. anyway, a colleague of his later pointed out that kyl's mother likely needed some services at one point and then there was the fiasco overstates affected by hurricane sandy. back in january, 67 house republicans voted against providing flood insurance for sandy victims and it turns out that 37 of them have a history of supporting aid after natural disasters when their own states were affected. missouri congressman sam graves was one of them, and here's what he said in 2011 when his state was dealing with a severe flood damage. i urge the president to approve this assistance without delay. many communities along the river have been stretched to the limit preparing for and fi

another senator who makes a crass joke about it, not me, not my problem, reminds me of senator jon kylsing the health care bill in 2009. >> first of all, i don't need maternity care, so requiring that to be in my insurance policy is something i don't need and will make the policy more expensive. >> if i can object with my colleague, i think your mom probably did. >> okay. >> senator kyl has the floor. >> over 60 years ago, my mom did. >> getting a clearer picture, perhaps some republican lawmakers need to be gay to support equality or come out of the closet. they need to be gay to come out of the closet and des suit to understand the need for health care, unemployment insurance and retirement security and the like. let's bring in richard wolffe, vice president and executive editor of msnbc.com, michelle goldberg, contributing writer at "newsweek" and "the daily beast" and from the huffington most. >> a chance to say something a bit less ridiculous, even if he were not prepared to change his view, isn't that right? >> look, faced with being a member of what bobby jindal called the stupi

first former senator john kyl of arizona.ut the part that required employers to cover basic maternity care because it made everyone's insurance more expensive. >> i don't need maternity care, and so requiring that to be in my insurance policy is something that i don't need and will make the policy more expensive. >> that's big thinking. anyway, a colleague of his later pointed out that kyl's morgue likely needed some services at one point and then there was the fiasco overstates affected by hurricane sandy. back in january, 67 house republicans voted against providing flood insurance for sandy victims and it turns out that 37 of them have a history of supporting aid after natural disasters when their own states were affected. missouri congressman sam graves was one of them, and here's what he said in 2011 when his state was dealing with a severe flood damage. i urge the president to approve this assistance without delay. many communities along the river have been stretched to the limit preparing for and fighting this unpreced

a man with plenty of knowledge, fox news contributor, now, jon kyl. we have a former colleague, ben cardin, democratic senator. he said what they have rolled out this week, which made it through the senate budget committee, is a balanced plan. yes, it has a lot of new tex revenue, but it's the only way to be fair. your response? >> well, it might come as no surprise, i disagree with my good friend, ben cardin. i was pleased to see both ben and the guest this morning with chris exude an optimistic tone about how they might be able to get together and make this work. they should approach it that way. i think in thhearts, they are hoping to be able to do that. however, there is an enormous gap between the two budgets. the house budget balances in 10 years. the democratic budget doesn't purport to ever balance. the democratic budget would raise taxes by $twenty1 trillio. the house budget issues more tax increases, basically saying, we did that on january 1, about two-thirds of a trillion dollars in new tax increases and we don't need a balanced approach t

helping them out so other people that are actually enter this private arena include retired senator jon kyl he'll actually be working with joe lieberman he at the american enterprise institute he's also working for covington and burling z. . government affairs practice so he'll be doing that retired senator kay bailey hutchinson will be working for bracewell and giuliani law firm that is a firm that actually supports energy banking in transportation issues so all things that she dealt with as a u.s. senator ben nelson like i mentioned for the he was the big one that supported obamacare and now he's actually potentially profiting off it and finally retired senator olympia snowe she's joined the bipartisan policy policy center that's a place where so many senators and congresspeople have gone to in the past it's a very well respected place but again it does put a question on that list keeps going on and on and on doesn't it thanks ladies appreciate you both weighing in that was host of artie's breaking the set abby martin in our to correspond to make a little. sugary drink sugary drink lovers

joined by former arizona senator jon kyl who is now a fox news contributor. the first appearance in that role, we welcome you back to the role. senator, good to see you this morning. >> thanks very much, martha. good to be with you. martha: you're obviously from arizona and spent so much of your career thinking about and talking about these issues with regard to border safety. what was your reaction when you heard as a result of the sequester they would start to release hundreds if not thousands of illegal immigrants from detention september terse. >> incidentally, our governor, jan brewer, shared the concerns of texas governor perry about the number of people and the way they're being released and asked the same question, who exactly these people are. martha: sure. >> i was confused at first because there were a lot of different stories coming out of the department of homeland security. it was00, then thousands. it was made by people on down the line. no, it was made by people at the highest levels. really wasn't related to sequester. well, yes it was. i'm n

host: that was kyl in indiana.et's hear from jesse in michigan and our democrats line. -- on our democrats line. caller: good morning. i like your style, when this post is on there. -- host is on there. i wonder if anybody watched last night brian lamb -- this girl was talking about, trying to force our way of life on them. she was a really nice lady. the gentleman over there, they will always want war. that is their job. [indiscernible] when george bush was president, all the democrats criticized what he was doing over there. now that obama is in there, you do not hear nothing. i cannot vote for obama because i do not like his attitude towards the war. i just -- i do not believe he is doing his job. i hope we can get out of there and leave those people alone and come back here and take care of people here, because people are hurting here. this war is not doing us any good. we're spending too much money over there in iraq and afghanistan. it is time for us to leave those people to run their own country. host: jesse

bill: i want to talk about this with former arizona senator jon kyl, a fox news contributor. >> thanks, good to be with you. bill: what do you think of karl rove is arguing there. >> he's exactly right. both parties have their problems, they always have, they always will. if you look at why republicans lost elections recently a lot of it had to do with the candidates themselves and i think the campaigns that were run. for example we lost two senate seats that we should have won because our candidates said some things which were easily manipulated by the democrats. let's just put it that way. they weren't the smartest comments in the world. you can't blame the party for those defeats. i think you have to analyze why elections were won or lost and both parties will make their adjustments, but i agree with karl rove the republican party is very much alive and well. bill: one of the things he said was that in 2010 the largest number of state legislators who were republicans were elected since 1920. a lot of that midterm vote had to do with the healthcare law, did it not? >> it di

second, we had a broad agreement everybody from ted kennedy or jon kyl.the time of getting to the floor really allowed a lot of -- they have improved. show to put facts in it. people understand while it's not time to say we have accomplished border security. you have to recognize there's been a lot of progress. that has to be part of . >> we're going come to you next signal. if you have a question the microphone is coming to you. we have a question from dwit -- twitter. how is the deor ituation of the manufacturing base a third of job in the last decade created homeland security threats jump up? >> well, i think there's a lot to be said for -- it's kinding interesting restoring manufacturing is in the united states you can look right to the homeland security arena and take a look at critical pieces of our infrastructure that we have offshore. and so if you have the problem with the electronic grid and other areas of the economy, the dependency of our international dependency on foreign forces is a natural security problem. and so i think it's legitimate t

second, although we had a really broad agreement, including a kennedy to jon10 kyl, the time in getting it to the floor allowed a lot of erosion. -- ted kennedy to john kyle. i think you do have to send a message that things have improved, and you have to put that's out there so that people understand while it is not time to say we accomplished border security, you have to recognize there has been a lot of progress, and that has to be part of the message. >> i will ask a question on twitter. how is the deterioration of our manufacturing base created new homeland security threats? >> i think there is a lot to be said -- it is interesting, but restoring manufacturing is -- look right of the homeland security arena of look at the critical infrastructure we have off shore so that if you have a problem with the electric grid, a problem in other areas of our economy, the dependency on foreign sources of some basic manufacturing goods is a natural security problem. i think whoever reference that, i think it is legitimate to say in the 21st century we have to be a lot more progressive and think

senator jon kyl took us there. and they had just suffered through the same financial catastrophe in 2007-2008 that we had, and it hit them worse. they had a larger drop in g.d.p. than we did. it was very, very damaging. and they had to decide what to do about it. so they began to consider what to do about it. and they didn't go for this idea that we had to borrow, borrow, borrow so we can keep spending because the revenue had dropped so much and they were going to keep spending at the same level. that wasn't what the estonians decided to do. this new democracy, this free enterprise, free country, so excited about their future. you know what they did? they cut spending. they cut spending big time, big time. this is what the cabinet member told me. we had dinner, a group of us. he said cabinet people had their pay cut 60%. it would be 40%. our pay was cut 40%. and he said but i will tell you who is really mad and giving me a hard time. i said who is that? he said my wife. she is a doctor. we hammered them, too. and t

[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> this is my friend, kyl[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> and munched away your renegade group 20 years old. i am launching a non-governmental organization that is going to try to save the butterfly image in a ship that is in danger of extinction. research has come and visit you would like to state that butterfly in indonesia. you will find in the 20 years old and that there's people interested in doing that, which is great. then nasa's same group, who is to join me in a political party? who wants to join the republican party or democratic party? you will see far fewer would be willing to volunteer time and efforts and passions enjoining and that's very valuable. political parties need to modernize khomeini to cut more attractive to young professionals because political parties ids sends of the idea you can have democracy without strong political parties. >> next, a panel discussion with melissa koide handles consumer policy for the name. this is an hour and a half. >> after an welcome fo

although we had a broad agreement, everybody from ted kennedy over to jon kyl, the time between gettinghe agreement and getting it to the floor, it allowed a lot of erosion from both the right and left in terms of what it did not like about plan. the third thing is, you do have to send a message that things -- you have to put facts out there, so that people understand that while we have not accomplished border security, you got to realize the progress. >> if you have a question, i will go to a question on twitter. how is the deterioration of our manufacturing base, one-third of jobs in the last decade, created new homeland security threats? jump ball. >> there is a lot to be said -- it is interesting -- to restoring manufacturing in the united states. you can look right to the homeland security arena and take a look at critical pieces of our infrastructure that we have offshore, so that you have a problem with the electric grid or other areas of our economy, the dependency on foreign sources of some basic manufacturing goods as a national-security problem. -- is a national-security prob

. >> host: kyl, speak about obamacare shift from quantity of care to quality of care within medicare. our projections following? visit to turn analyses. if the programs are incentivizing providers from this fee-for-service care, which is for every time a doctor doesn't ask for your test, the doctor gets paid and the notion universally is considered obsolete or outdated and driving up costs. but people are starting to move towards is a notion of global payments are finding a way to say.or should pay for the healthy outcome of their patient and making sure they don't end up in the hospital again or that there are medical errors driving up costs. >> host: vivian shepherd says how can the cost of insurance skyrocket if there's a cap on how much insurance companies can raise the premiums? >> guest: it is not so much a cap. states are allowed to have mechanisms to reject premiums that rise to what is considered a non-reasonable or unjustifiable way. i think you are seeing frustration where they say we see companies raise rates on individuals or small businesses by double-digit percentages.

this bipartisan legislation, and i would like to make senator begich and senator kyl for helping me in this legislation, we want to make sure the people who find themselves in this legal category, having been a judge by a federal court to be dangerous to themselves and others would no longer be able to legally pass a background check. there are a lot of emotions around the gun violence issues and i am hopeful that this is one area where we can find tremendous bipartisan support to fix what is a gaping gap in our law. i thank god everyday that the gun did not discharge and i will do everything i can with my colleagues to make sure that this mistake is fixed and in south carolina, this method at the state level to record all adjudications finding someone dangerous to themselves and others, so that people in that category cannot buy a gun. there are over 14,000 fall into that category. we are trying to make advancements at home to help fix that problem. i would like to turn it over to senator begich who has co-authored legislation. >> thank you for bringing this issue. i was familiar with

and then helped with what is nd of being called the kennedy-kyl proposal. he kind of took those negotiations over. so they're all based off of a fundamental draft which was put together in 2005 and 2006 known as mccain-kebbedy which then went through the process and became a hodgepodge of didn't titles on the floor but that was the last piece of legislation that we had pass the congress. host: biggest sticking point? guest: that's a good question. we actually i would say the temporary worker program really was definitely the point in 2007 where we really hit a wall. if you look back at the floor debate there was a crucial amendment that sunsetted the temporary worker program after five years and once that amendment passed by one vote the whole process kind of fell apart. the interesting part about drafting immigration legislation especially talking about temporary workers is it involved a lot of the labor laws then you have people come in and help with that piece and it gets very complicated and i've never been a labor lawyer. it's very, very complicated in

i cosponsored an amendment to the 2013 defense authorization act with senator kyl to form an advisory panel and to take a look at this, to make bipartisan recommendations to improve the governance and structure of the nnsa. it is vital that necessary reforms will be completed. the third udall amendment to lay the foundation is for future hardrock mining reform in the 113th congress. i have just filed this amendment so it does not yet have a number. we should correct a long-standing fiscal loophole and establish a royalty on hardrock minerals mined on federal lands. since 1872, the federal government has literally been giving away our gold, silver, uranium and other hardrock minerals. handing over these public resources for free, a royalty is long overdue. it should be used for the reclamation of thousands of abandoned hardrock mines across the country as well as for budget deficit reduction. oil and gas and coil all pay federal royalties when extracted from federal lands. all other developed nations apply royalties to hardrock minerals. this amendment does not prejudge what type of ro

in fact, a few years ago i remember former senator jon kyl and i had a pretty good debate on this floor about an important project for the city of white fish, montana. so we debated and we took a vote on it in the senate. and that is why i am so upset by two agricultural-related provisions someone from the house of representatives put into this bill and that the senate seems willing to accept. i don't know who authored this provision, maybe somebody in washington knows but no one is willing to put their name on it and that's a shame. it's a shame that folks who get so bent out of shape about earmarks did not seem to be troubled by these provisions. mr. president, montana is home to thousands of working families that make a living off the land. they're family farmers and ranchers. the house of representatives is prepared to toss those working families aside in favor of the nation's large meat packing corporations. the house inserted in a provision in the bill that gives enormous marketing power to america's three largest meatpacking organizations while stifg farmers and etch ranchers. fa