mr. obama's old friend and colleague senator coburn is warning of anarchy, physical violence in the wake are promising the legislative variety. dana bash is on capitol hill where the president's move has made quite a few waves. a lot of republicans unhappy by this move from the president. what's the latest you're hearing? >> reporter: words like emperor, overreach, arrogant, and even one saying the president is declaring war on america and on democracy. those are the kinds of statements that we're already getting and it's kind of double pronged outrage, anderson, about the way he is going about this, doing it without congress. but also what he is doing. because a lot of republicans say that this is exactly what is wrong with the system even suggesting that fenearly 5 milln untoumted immigrants can stay illegally is going to encourage more illegal immigrants to come across the border. >> dana, we'll check in with you after the president's speech. chief washington correspondent jake tapper. jake, is this much different than what many presidents have done in the past using executive actions

mr. deo will be confirmed i think in short order. i urge my colleagues too review their qualifications and work with dr. coburn and me to fill these vacancies at the department of homeland security in the coming days. i want to spend a few minutes of my time, though, tonight discussing the nomination of mickey barnett to -- who is already serving on the postal board of governors but he's been nominated again, he's a republican, nominated again by the president. and then i want to talk about a couple of lower profile nominees i think we urge lent he opponently need to confirm as quickly as we can. certainly this year during this lame-duck session. mickey barnett. mickey barnett is among a group of five bipartisan nominees to the postal board of governors submitted by a democratic president. two of the nominees republicans, mickey one of those, three of them are democrats. if we don't confirm mr. barnett and his colleagues by december 8, a little -- about on four weeks from now mr. barnett currently the board's chair will be forced to leave the board. if that happens the postal board of governors will not have e

mr. coburn: i ask that the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. coburn: i wanted to spend a few minutes just talking about a bill that passed the house that has 37 bipartisan cosponsors in the senate that came out of my committee, and it's an important transparency item for the american taxpayer. it's called the taxpayer's right to know. and what most americans don't realize is that there is only one agency that knows how many programs it has. only one. the rest of them -- none of the rest of the federal agencies know how many programs they are running. they can't put them down, can't list them on a piece of paper. and the g.a.o. has recommended for a long period of time starting about three or four years ago that we should be putting this down when we got the truth in transparency and the truth in accountability act and the transparency act through president obama, we started this process where the g.a.o. would look for duplication and report it to congress. so we have a bill that's passed unanimously in the house. it's a bipartisan bill that came