laura bassett is national reporter with the huffington post. ues and joining us in studio. hi, laura. nice to see you. >> great to be here. >> patty murray and dianne feinstein and one other senator held a news conference yesterday. you might have been there, where they talked about the importance of this act and why this is not something we ought to be playing politics with. here is patty murray. >> women in america cannot afford political theater on this issue. not on this issue. >> joe biden wrote it in 1994, reauthorized twice. what's the deal this year? >> republicans have a problem with it this year because democrats wrote the bill and expanded some of the protection to include same-sex couples as well as undocumented immigrants. and republicans can't support it with those extra protection in it. >> so it's okay to beat up women who are here illegally? is that it? fair game? >> if you are gay. >> and to beat of gays and lesbian s.? >> exactly. >> what? it's like it defies believe. >> i agree. republicans are saying that the democrats are u

we have laura bassett, and adam green, the mean green machine, cofounder of the progressive change committeeaving you guys here. first topic everybody is unfortunately yet another buckle by the white house, caving in on -- it was proposed regulation that children should not be able to do dangerous work actual work on a farm that isn't their family farm on their own family farm they could do dangerous labor, but just not on other people's farm. it seemed like a reasonable proposal. they said, oh my god, you don't understand. and of course president obama said i give up. so bring in the panel here laura does this appear to be the 287th buckle in a row? >> it is definitely a huge buckle. and child safety advocates are very upset about it. there were significant pushbacks from rural areas and rural washington, and it means that children are going to die, which is kind of a big deal. three-fourths of the deaths on these farms have to do with children and these accidents. >> when the law said they are allowed to work on their family farms unlimited, right? so they were lying. democrats were faced