the small business innovation bill that my friend, mary landrieu, brought to the floor. the last time we counted, those bills have created 19,000 new businesses. shut that one down. then the house passed a budget that cut into the highway fund, and i want to give you specifically, mr. chairman -- mr. president what that would mean. if they cut -- if we wind up cutting the transportation program at the level they cut it in the house -- a third, and that's exactly what chairman mica's bill does -- we know because c.b.o. has told us we lose 620,000 jobs, construction jobs. and then they play with the f.a.a., and they object to a clean reauthorization and projects are shut down, and workers are furloughed, and small businesses don't know if they can hang on. okay? i thought this election in 2010 was about jobs. i tell you, i was up in 2010. i know it was about jobs. and i committed to the people i'd go back here and fight for jobs, private-sector jobs, public-sector jobs, jobs, jobs. and everything the house has done since the republicans took over is to stop our progress, s

works but apparently he does and the irony of cantor's demands didn't escape louisiana senator mary landrieu who asked rhetorically is it really makes sense to pay for response and reconstruction costs from athens asters by reducing our capacity to prepare for future disasters now of course this is encounter first foray into disaster relief irony when the tornadoes wiped out joplin missouri back in may only agreed to a billion dollars in disaster relief if a billion and a half dollars were cut out of the green cars initiative in other words cut funding for. programs to curb global warming to pay for disasters caused by global warming you just can't make this stuff up now for more on what is wrong with eric cantor and his policies i'm joined by papper offload he is the economic policy director at think progress dot org pat thank you so much for being here so explain this to me. i get the republicans want to make cuts you know they're trying to balance the budget when they're talking about making cuts to things like eight or nine n.p.r. planned parenthood i mean i agree with politically but i

the other side of the aisle democratic senator mary landrieu is she satisfied with the deal. you haven't seen all of the details but from what you know tonight yes or no? you like it or not? >> i haven't seen the details but i am leaning toward voting for it. i think it's very, very important to avoid default. it's not just how the government hostage it's how every american, family and business hostage. we need to get past back to the crisis. i want to thank harry reid for working up to the lathes minute. it wasn't pretty. it was tough. i wish we would have more time as the senator from alabama said. it is what it is. and i am looking forward to the details tomorrow. hope we can get this done in the next 24-hours. >> maybe you ought to do that one, too. >> in fact the appropriations process started. see if we can work out the agreement in the house in the home land appropriations bill. >> we talk about tax breaks and deductions. i looked at the power point and there won't be any tax increases. i know that's a big thing for the democrats and republicans have been fighting abou

the other side of the aisle democratic senator mary landrieu is she satisfied with the deal. you haven't seen all of the details but from what you know tonight yes or no? you like it or not? >> i haven't seen the details but i am leaning toward voting for it. i think it's very, very important to avoid default. it's not just how the government hostage it's how every american, family and business hostage. we need to get past back to the crisis. i want to thank harry reid for working up to the lathes minute. it wasn't pretty. it was tough. i wish we would have more time as the senator from alabama said. it is what it is. and i am looking forward to the details tomorrow. hope we can get this done in the next 24-hours. >> maybe you ought to do that one, too. >> in fact the appropriations process started. see if we can work out the agreement in the house in the home land appropriations bill. >> we talk about tax breaks and deductions. i looked at the power point and there won't be any tax increases. i know that's a big thing for the democrats and republicans have been fighting abou

came to the floor and engaged in it colloquy and i remain grateful to senator sherrod brown and mary landrieu for my support. all so it contains some repetition. what do you want? eight to the half-hour's. [laughter] and this is not an accident. in giving this speech i was more than aware that most people were not going to be listening to it in its entirety. i suspected that most people would tune in for half an hour or an hour then move on with their lives. i made it a point to keep returning to my basic themes. was i surprised about the kind of intention -- attention that the speech received? are you kidding? the phones in my washington and vermont offices never stopped ringing. in vermont everyone of my eight staff people did nothing else all day but respond to calls, thousands of calls and e-mails. the senate television web site crashed because of the huge number of people who wanted to watch the speech live on line and currently c-span2 had an exceptional day. according to "the new york times" my speech was the most twittered event that day. what a distinction, most twittered event and s

came to the floor and engaged in it colloquy and i remain grateful to senator sherrod brown and mary landrieu for my support. all so it contains some repetition. what do you want? eight to the half-hour's. [laughter] and this is not an accident. in giving this speech i was more than aware that most people were not going to be listening to it in its entirety. i suspected that most people would tune in for half an hour or an hour then move on with their lives. i made it a point to keep returning to my basic themes. was i surprised about the kind of intention -- attention that the speech received? are you kidding? the phones in my washington and vermont offices never stopped ringing. in vermont everyone of my eight staff people did nothing else all day but respond to calls, thousands of calls and e-mails. the senate television web site crashed because of the huge number of people who wanted to watch the speech live on line and currently c-span2 had an exceptional day. according to "the new york times" my speech was the most twittered event that day. what a distinction, most twittered event and s

came to the floor and engaged in it colloquy and i remain grateful to senator sherrod brown and mary landrieu for my support. all so it contains some repetition. what do you want? eight to the half-hour's. [laughter] and this is not an accident. in giving this speech i was more than aware that most people were not going to be listening to it in its entirety. i suspected that most people would tune in for half an hour or an hour then move on with their lives. i made it a point to keep returning to my basic themes. was i surprised about the kind of intention -- attention that the speech received? are you kidding? the phones in my washington and vermont offices never stopped ringing. in vermont everyone of my eight staff people did nothing else all day but respond to calls, thousands of calls and e-mails. the senate television web site crashed because of the huge number of people who wanted to watch the speech live on line and currently c-span2 had an exceptional day. according to "the new york times" my speech was the most twittered event that day. what a distinction, most twittered event and s