reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the call of the quorum be terminated. the presiding officer: without objection, and under the previous order, the leadership time is reserved. mr. reid: mr. president, i ask the chair lay before the senate a message from the house with respect to h.j. res. 59. the presiding officer: the chair lays before the senate the following message. the clerk: resolved, that the house proceed from its amendment to the amendment of the senate for the resolution h.j. res. 59, entitled a joint resolution making continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2014, and for other purposes, and concur with the house amendment to a senate amendment. mr. reid: mr. president, i move to concur in the house amendment to the senate amendment h.j. res. 59. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the motion to concur. the clerk: the senator from nevada, mr. reid, moves to concur in the house amendment to senate amendment to

reid: mr. president, i send a k4r0e67 motion to the desk. -- a cloture motion to the desks. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: cloture motion: we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination of jessica garfalo wright of pennsylvania to be under secretary of defense for personnel and readiness signinged by 17 senators as follows. mr. reid: i ask that the reading of the names not be necessary. officer without objection. mr. reid: i move to proceed to legislative session. the presiding officer: question is on the motion. all in favor say aye. all opposed, no. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the motion is agreed to. mr. reid: i move to proceed to executive session to consider calendar number 18 the. -- 189. the presiding officer: question is on the motion. all in favor say aye. all opposed, no. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do to h

reid: mr. president, that explanation is as flat as a bottle of beer that's been open for six months. okay. madam president, i move to proceed to executive session to consider calendar number 378. the presiding officer: the question is on the motion to proceed. all those in favor say aye. all those opposed, no. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the motion is agreed to. and the clerk will report the nominations. the clerk: nomination, equal employment opportunity commission, rachel feldbloom of the district of columbia to be a member of the equal employment opportunity commission. mr. reid: i send a cloture motion to the desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the cloture motion. the clerk: cloture motion. we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, hereby move to bring to a close the debate on the nomination of chai rachel feldbloom of the district of columbia to be a member of the equal employment opp

and senator reid. there are many other quotes on the record in which they vigorously opposed the notion of deputying the minority any say in the confirmation process when it was discussed but never implemented some years ago. so why would they have such a 180-degree reversal? why would their opinion and that of the vast majority of my democratic colleagues, why would it have changed to the point where they would actually take this absolutely unprecedented step? well, senator reid gave an explanation on the day that he inflicted these changes on this body and i'll quote from senator reid's explanation. what he said was -- quote -- "there has been unbelievable, unprecedented obstruction. for the first time in the history of our republic, republicans have routinely used the filibuster to prevent president obama from appointing his executive team or confirming judges." that's what senator reid said. so it's been about republicans obstructing the president from appointing his executive team and confirming j

reid: i ask for the yeas and nays on my motion. the presiding officer: is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. the yeas and nays are ordered. mr. reid: i have an amendment that i have asked the chair to order reported. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the amendment. the clerk: the senator from nevada, mr. reid, proposes an amendment numbered 2553 to the instructions of amendment numbered 2552. mr. reid: i now move to refer the house message with respect to h.r. 3304 with instructions. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the motions. the clerk: the senator from

we heard from mitch mcconnell and harry reid. back and the rate of approval in terms of nominees comparing to the george w bush administration, what does it look like gecko >> president obama's nominees have seen a wait time of around 140 days. under george w. bush, those same nominees saw a wait time about a quarter of that amount. nominees, they have waited around 100 days. times the weight time of george w. bush's nominees. you have seen significantly longer wait time from court approval. the difference was the senate democrats had it different strategy mixing the process up. they would try to hurt the nominee's chances before they even got to committee. reid went on to the this in the midst of nuclear debate, they talked about how half of the cloture motions have come under president obama's term. which is a startling statistic. think only for cloture motions were ever invoked the past 13 years. were on theinees floor and they had to bring this to a vote? >> right. they nominated what they thought would be the best candidate

we heard from mitch mcconnell and harry reid. if you look back and the rate of approval in terms of nominees comparing to the george w bush administration, what does it look like? >> president obama's nominees have seen a wait time of around 140 days. under george w. bush, those same nominees saw a wait time about a quarter of that amount. for district nominees, they have waited around 100 days. three times the wait time of george w. bush's nominees. you have seen significantly longer wait time from court approval. the difference was the senate democrats had it different strategy mixing the process up. they would try to hurt the nominee's chances before they even got to committee. when harry reid went on to the floor in the midst of this nuclear debate, they talked about how half of the cloture motions have come under president obama's term. which is a startling statistic. i think from 1917 through 1960, only 4 cloture motions were ever invoked the past 13 years. were ever invoked. the past 13 years, the number is 280. >> these n

reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: i move to proceed to calendar number 243. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: motion to proceed to the consideration of calendar number 243, s. 1356, a bill to amend the workforce investment act of 1998, and so forth and for other purposes. mr. reid: mr. president, following my remarks and those of the republican leader, the senate will be in morning business until 4:00 this afternoon. at 4:00 the senate will resume consideration of the national defense authorization act. at 5:00 p.m. the senate will proceed to executive session to consider the nomination of patricia millett to be united states circuit judge for the d.c. circuit postcloture. at 5:30 the senate will vote on confirmation of the millett nomination. mr. president, i think there are four bills, and the clerk can help both of us, at the desk due for second reading. the presiding officer: the clerk will read for the second time. the clerk:

what he said is not true. >> i don't speak for senator reid. don't know the full context of the interview. but we know the vast majority of people who are going to be able to keep their plans, that insurance companies cancel plans every year. in many cases this is because we are preventing insurance companies to stick it to people in unfair ways like kicking them off insurance. >> are you disputing that the reason most of the plans have been cancelled is because of obama care? >> the reason is insurance companies like to play tricks on people over the years. we are limiting the number of tricks they can play. one of the ways they are now dealing with that is to try to move people off the plans. >> no, no. >> we are not going to pay for preventative care. >> here's what karen ignomi -- and i continue to mess up her name -- she's with the insurance group that worked with the white house on obama care. here is what she said about the cancelled plans. >> the only reason plans are sending notes to consumers about losing coverage is because of the re

barack obama and harry reid have compromised.tting me finish. >> that's just not true. >> it is true. >> harry reid just said a week or two ago that if anybody wants to talk about medicare or social security, it's off the table. >> without any -- >> am i supposed to sit here and let you say something harry reid said the opposite thing of last week? >> joe, he said it if there are no revenue increases. not a single republican has come out for any revenue increases. there are two sides to this. revenue increases for entitlement cuts. there have been many democrats, many, you've had them on the show, the president has called for it, harry reid has entertained it at times. >> would you support both of those things? revenue increases and entitlement cuts? >> yes. there are ways to cut the entitlements and raise the revenues that both sides can live with. but -- >> how many people in the senate do you think share that position? that they're willing to cut entitlements to the -- we're talking, of course, over 25, 30 years. >> yes, i und

i can't believe harry reid actually believes what he just said. >> well, senator reid should not trybe clever. it's very unbecoming. what he was doing was saying the president didn't say what the president has in his way, apologized for saying. the problem is they are now going into full-court press of my millennials. they don't realize they are going to get old, sick and aches and pains. they need about 40% of those signing up to be under 35. they are either going to sign up because out of al truism they want to subsidize the elderly good luck with that. or sign up because they don't know anybody. the problem is the obamacare continue context of young people. graduating from college, a great many of them into a job market that is -- unsatisfactorying. they are graduating with federal student debt that they got because the obama administration, with a flood of subsidies, caused the colleges to raise tuitions to capture the subsidies. and now they are coming out with this debt and they are greeted by the obama congratulations, you have got a degree buy some insurance that you don't wa

and so, harry reid has tried it. especially as time runs out to streamlines things, run things through. this is where you are, john mccain. get your party to be reasonable. democrats have shown again and again. some times to our disliking. they're willing to compromise and cut deals, liberals and progressions don't always like you. don't steep that on the other side. >> gets the last word on this one. gene, i would like you to hang around. i am sure, you are a big duck fan. never miss it. >> if you are like me you have never seen the show. never seen the show. that won't prevent us from talking about what one of the stars of "duck dynasty" said today. you have heard haul about the duck dynasty controversy, the guy being suspend ford what he said about gay people. but his network apparently has absolutely no problem with what he said about black people. joy reid will join us for the discussion. first, a "last word" exclusive, the methodist pastor defrocked because he officiated at his gay son's wedding. the pastor and

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>> aye. >> though officials may argue reid's claim of not being a troublemaker, even reid acknowledgeshat wherever and whenever he finishes his sentence, he'll have issues to deal with. >> so what happens when you get out of prison? >> what happens? i don't know. i'll need to be very careful. one mistake and i'm back for a recall. >> you think you're going to drink? >> why not? >> seems to cause you problems. >> i've been doing it for 40 years. any time i'm out. can i see myself stopping? no. no. no. >> jimmy had told us about all the problems his drinking had caused. and that he had concerns, but the fact that when he was released he planned to go right back to drinking, it was evident, that's who he is. that's who jimmy is. >> i'll be okay. i'll be all right. i hope. >>> coming up -- >> i stood on the bed, and i put the rope around his neck, and i killed him. >> how long did that take? >> five minutes. >> the chilling account of one young inmate's descent into murder and a life in prison. awarded j.d. power's most appealing midsize car, two years in a row. and right now you can drive

reid: mr. president, a couple years ago i surprised everyone, but i didn't surprise myself when i selected the chair of the super committee patty murray. patty at the time was chairman of the veterans' affairs committee. she was a member of the budget committee, and i thought she would do a remarkably good job, because i have such faith in her integrity, her temperament, her wisdom, and her ability to get things done. and the country should be so pleased with the work that she was able to do on a bipartisan basis with paul ryan it's kind of an unconventional pair. they worked together to come up with a budget they can work on for two years. we have numbers now. i'm very pleased the budget negotiators murray and ryan have come up with an agreement today that will roll back the painful and arbitrary cuts of sequester and prevent another costly government shutdown. i again commend budget committee chairman patty murray for making this agreement possible. but it's also fair to -- and i hope this do

harry reids, golden rings, golden rings, marry reids, it's funny because harry reid is the senate majorityen rings well, folks, that was so inspired by huckabee that i made my own antio banlacare song parody for steven colbert's now that's what i call christmas health care parody volume 1. okay. given to a friend and they will enjoy christmas classics like hark the herald cathleen sebelius, glory to obamacare. >> and ♪ ♪ bomb-- obamacare is beginning to look a lot like socialism, every hospital you go ♪ ♪ plus, felize -- an no election would be complete without-- away in a health care manager, he said if you liked your health care plan you could keep it ♪ ♪ obamacare made a little lord jesus cry. ♪ and for the kids out there. ♪ frosty the biden ♪ da da da da ♪ and the whole family will sing along with. ♪ oh o bomba care ♪ oh obama care ♪ oh oh oh oh oh oh obamacare ♪ ♪. >> act now and will you also get jingle obamacare dog, a bunch of lovable sickly conservative pups barking your favorite christmas anti-obamacare songs. like this classic ♪ ♪ ♪. >> over now, before another million people si

so what did senator reid do? he used the ability to appeal the ruling of the chair and he asked his colleagues to overrule the ruling of the chair which by any plain reading of the rules of the senate would be without dispute requiring 60 votes to shut off debate. but he wanted it to be 51. and his colleagues supported him. his colleagues supported him, and they supported him, and he overruled the chair. his own parliamentarian that he selected and the presiding officer that he put in the chair. and they voted to change the rules of the senate that's in plain language with 51 votes. not 67. now this is dangerous, colleagues. this is the kind of thing you see in third world republics or would-be republics. this is the kind of lawlessness that will endanger the american system of government at its most fundamental basis. it is endangering us. the president says whatever he wants to, you can keep your doctor. the president says your plan is going to save you $2,000 a year. the president says all these things and he

ha harry reid is a former boxer and this is playing offense. it is saying things aren't as bad as they look folks. >> that is interesting. because he said today what the president said about being able to keep your health care plan that he was telling the truth. i want to bring you to the numbers. 29,000 people signing up after the glitches were fixed on the website sunday and monday. the administration said they wanted 7 million to sign up in march. they need more than this amount of numbers to be claiming high fives in a victory lap. they found to replace the more than five million people's whose plans have been cancelled, they would have to sign up 240,000 odd people every day bren detwe december 1st and december 23rd. to cover the people's whose plans had been cancelled. the administration is pushing the fact that the numbers are increasing. they may not reach that goal but they are pushing the fact that they are getting the meger number in october. they are not going to be able to replace the people that have lost their coverage. we are go

senator harry reid. another. harry reid has to be a tough choice. merry christmas.e list in this case >> that is harsh. >> let's start at the top, president obama, for making promises that he couldn't deliver on. melissa: that is very knotty. >> leading the nation down a path of dependency instead of independence and always accusing others of harsh rhetoric when he is the one ho does it. and then you can see the other one i have. >> there was someone in between. >> yes, heis alowing himself not to be pushed around by politicians but also by wall street and the common man suffers as a rsult. melissa: chip wilson, the founder of lulu lemon, said the reason why the pants didn't perform well, he said it's not the pants come into your big fat butt. i think he said slightly different words, but a lot of women inside the beltway and without a belt. we were all about that. >> okay, again i started to talk about this, ted cruz, he stood up on principle. when everyone else told him to sit down. even as they were public and opponent, like john mccain, calling him stupid. and h

reid: mr. president, as i indicated this morning, the republican leader and i have spent some time together and i think we've had a productive discussion on the schedule. the schedule's been extremely difficult for everyone. we worked out a schedule that allows for the next set of votes which will occur at 12:00 noon today, will be the last votes of this week. we agreed that on monday evening, the senate will vote on the matters that we would have voted on the rest of today and this weekend. so on monday at 5:30 in the afternoon, the senate will vote on patterson, johnson and then one would be on -- the cloture on johnson and then it would be confirmation. they're -- we're doing our utmost to finish our business here a week from today so that we can go home for christmas. so we'll be in session sunday afternoon. there will be no votes on sunday. the next roll call, i repeat for the third time, will be 5:30 monday. on tuesday, we'll be begin consideration of the budget. on wednesday, the defense

harry reid is one of the staunchest supporters of obama care. is he letting some of his staff opt out of buying insurance through the new health care exchanges? according to chris frates, reid is the only top congressional leader to grant exceptions to some of his staff. lisa day jordan has been tracking congress's own health care decisions and certainly helped with the story. how is harry reid able to do what he's doing and why is he the only congressional leader that has made this decision? >> he is the only of the top four congressional leaders, the top democrat and republican, both the house and senate to make this exception. why is he able to do it, wolf? well, frankly, it's because of wording in the affordable care act. it's all semantics. look exactly who is required to get on these exchanges. got a graphic here. essentially all members of congress have to go on the exchanges if they want their job-related premium support, the money that comes from the federal government as their employer and also the law says members and congressional st

they are forcing reid to use the allotted time for nominees. block nominees, but they are forcing reid to use every bit of debate time as required. every minute, republicans mean taking every minute. midday friday there were at least nine on the list. afternoon yesterday and has gone on and on and on. >> we are doing everything we to finish. >> will there be some people who benefit as truth tellers? of this. bottom >> the war on the senate floor goes on, even as congress gets ready to go on winter break tomorrow. harry reid says, do what you want. >> we are going to finish this week. we have to get this done. christmas is approaching. this doesn't end at christmas time. we have work to do. >> republican action is slowing things down. trying to getis young people to sign up for health care coverage under the affordable care act. all those glitches have set things back again. won theer adam levine designation from people magazine last month. he is among the americans urging young americans to sign up for health care on social media. it is not jus

so reid is trying to move through ten nominees and judges and other officials. they can still slow the time and that has angered reed and he has threatened they may have an all-nighter and keep them here through the weekend to get through the ten nominees. >> it could be a long weekend in the senate. thank you. >>> health care control is number one for the white house tonight. chief correspondent tells us there is much damage to control. >> the president returned after the long flight home from nelson mandela's memorial service and was hit with a new batch of polls suggesting his credibility has taken a toll from the botched health care rollout. >> the president was not truthful with the american people and that's why a majority of the people believe the president is not honest which is why his popularity continues to drop. >> the evidence is stark, with a new wall street journal nbc news poll showing a drop in his honesty and his disapproval hit an all-time high in the journal poll, 54%. his approval slipped to 43%. 50 merced -- 50% said the health care law is

. >> harry reid in particular is way out there.eople have lost their policies between 5.4 and 6.2 million policies have been cancelled. that represents 10, 12, 14 million people. they got a cancellation letter. and the presidenting acknowledg it. he apologized for it. and harry reid comes back and says the president was right. he was right when he was telling people they could keep their policies. reid's problem is this, this is out of the now fox poll. 38% of the people think the administration has been honest with them about the afford care act. 55% believe they deliberately deserved people. >> i think they are lucky in light of the tape we just ran. >> exactly. did they know in advance that people were going to get kicked off? but harry reid continues to sit there and say things that people know are not true. i mean, look, normally senator harry reid would be the "d" from nevada. maybe he is the "d" who is dumb. this is stupid on his part to say the president was right when the president said i was wrong. i apologize. was he "d"

we will heal from the majority leader harry reid on the budget and more. and we will have the results from in exclusive -- an exclusive bloomberg: what americans think about bitcoin. to our viewers here in united states and those of you who are joining us from around the world, welcome. we have full coverage of the stocks and the stories that are making headlines tonight. su keenan has details on qualcomm's new ceo and all of the friday market news. and yang yang has reaction from harry reid on the battle in the united states senate. greg good evening mark. the battle is in the senate after the house voted ,verwhelmingly on thursday almost equal numbers of republicans and democrats, to pass the bipartisan budget deal. it puts new pressure on the senate democrats to get it through this one last hurdle and onto president obama's. the senate is expected to take up the bill on tuesday. 5 republicans will have to join democrats for the deal to pass. after two street all night sessions, and the continuing fight over senate rules, passage does not look like a lan

reid: i ask unanimous consent we now proceed to s. 1847. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: s. 1847, a bill to provide for the redesignation of the asia-pacific center for security studies as the daniel k. inouye asia-pacific center for security studies. the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding to the measure? without objection. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the bill be read three times, passed, the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid on the table, there be no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: mr. president, there are two bills at the desk due for first reading, i'm told. the presiding officer: the clerk will read the title of the bills for the first time. the clerk: s. 1845, a bill to provide for the extension of certain unemployment benefits and for other purposes. s. 1846, a bill to delay the implementation of certain provisions of the biggart-watters insurance reform act of 2012 and for other purposes. mr. reid: i now ask for a second r

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harry reid is threatening if we have to work through christmas, so be it. republicans are taking a stand, but why? >> this is all the result of the nuclear option that senator reid pulled last month. remember, that was a really unprecedented move to lower the threshold to defeat a filibuster from 60 to 51 votes for a simple majority of senators. and that has just prompted enormous republican criticism. and they're saying that, look, now you did this move. we're going to pay you back. you're not going to be able to move your agenda very quickly. we're not going to let you move nominations quickly, even very noncontroversial ones. i think this is a sign of things to come for the next several months here. >> but in the end, ruth, will it change any of the outcomes? >> it won't change the outcomes. and it's absolutely clear that people are being confirmed today who would not have been confirmed under the previous rules. last night the most prominent example was nina pillard, law professor at georgetown, now a judge on what's called the second most important cou

we heard from mitch mcconnell nd harry reid. if you look back and the rate of approval in terms of nominees comparing to the george w bush administration, what does it look like? , president obama's nominees have seen a wait time of around 140 days. under george w. bush, those same nominees saw a wait time about a quarter of that amount. for district nominees, they have waited around 100 days. three times the weight time of george w. bush's nominees. you have seen significantly longer wait time from court approval. the difference was the senate democrats had it different strategy mixing the process up. they would try to hurt the nominee's chances before they even got to committee. when harry reid went on to the floor in the midst of this nuclear debate, they talked about how half of the cloture motions have come under president obama's term. which is a startling statistic. i think only for cloture motions were ever invoked the past 13 years. >> these nominees were on the floor and they had to bring this to a vote? >> right. they

the future for obama care and harry reid's senate leadership. and -- >> we actually have more in common that we can work together on than maybe we previously thought. >> they're younger than most members of congress and impatient. aaron shot and democrat, the future caucus looking to shake up business as usual. plus, the authors of this town collision 2012. double down and breakout talk to us about washington politics and look into their crystal balls. then a bonus section, a prominent critic of russian president putin is pardoned by putin and now sits down with an exclusive with our reporter. this is "state of the union." good morning. three dozen americans working for the united nations are trapped in the troubled south sudan. evacuation efforts failed saturday when gunmen fired on three u.s. military aircraft and wounded four service members. we have new developments in the last few minutes. i want to bring in cnn's pentagon correspondent barbara star. we should say, barbara, as far as we know those four service people with in stable conditio

. >> it's unclear if harry reid will bring up the legislation, the rare bipartisan move startled those. >> i don't think it will be enacted. the president would veto it. risk of passing sanctions now it would derail negotiations just when deploem say is making progress. >> the problem is me then dez, chairman of the foreign relations committee disagrees saying current sarngss brought a rang to the negotiating table and threat of future sanctions luf require iran to cooperate and act in good faith at the negotiating table. >> senators were name. democrats should stop supporting republican efforts to undermine president barack obama 's diplomacy. the last thing our country needs is another war. fox learned several top officials were burning up the phone lines making the case to senators who moved forward with the legislation any way. >> what does that say about the president that his party is defying him? >> there's overwhelming support in the country and in the country with resolution to this confli conflict. >> the push on capitol hill may blow up talks with iran. the republican john m

i had a letter to harry reid and they said let's pass that bill to give us the leverage. this is all about leverage in the negotiations. >> new sanctions that will start in six months? >> the iranians know we're serious about the sanctions and give us a leverage for the administration and their talks. i happen to agree with my colleague that if we can have a civilian program, fine. that is the goal that i think actually both share on both sides of the aisle. >> i do part company with the idea that we should pass another sanctions bill. i know there are many pushing that right now. we don't want to be perceived by our partners as the ones that are throttling this agreement before it has a chance to live. and if we do, then i think the coalition that supported these sanctions which includes many reluctant partners like china and russia starts town ravel. it will be one thing if the iranians renege if, they cheat. then deals off. we not only resume the freeze, we add sanctions. i don't think we should take steps that aren't necessary right now. the iranians know if, they don

jimmy williams, joy reid, krystal ball, and michael steele.ere's our first category, and it's a biggie. the blockbuster award to the person who made the best political move this year. krystal? >> well, this was a great year,. one move was architecting the strategy around the government shutdown and basically saying we have to stay strong. we cannot give the republicans anything in return for a debt ceiling. anything in return for a government shutdown. but what i think was the best move of the year was getting rid of the filibuster for nominees. finally the president is able to get people in office so the government can actually work. >> i'm sure michael steele, you want to help us present that revvie award to harry reid. >> i'll present that one, all right. i actually took a very different approach to this question about the best political move of the year. and i went a little bit bigger and broader to the college of cardinals. who had to deal with the sudden abdication of a pope and had to look at a church both internally and externally and

at harry reid's press conference announcing the end of the filibuster, they misspelled filibuster with two "ls." ( laughter ) that says philly-busters, which i assume are cops who arrest female horses. ( laughter ) and i don't even believe the democrats are really against the filibuster. because their poster clearly says they're again-sts this spem. but they niewkd it. they went ahead and niewkd it. what's going to happen in washington now? something? we were this close to achieving a zen-like state of perfect government nothingness. not since buddha have so many fat, bald men worked so hard to do so little. ( laughter ) ( applause ) and folks i have to tell you it's not just the senate. i am sad to report america is losing the battle against gay marriage. the district of columbia and 16 states have legalized man-on mantwoimony including just last week hawaii. it's aloa traditional values, and aloha, gay marriage. ( laughter ) ( applause ) i wish i could assailant opposite. just last night, the government of illinois signed same-sex marriage legislation into law. you know who's happy a

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i'm not sure harry reid helped him at all in that particular interview. moving forward as the president's main problem as he tries to sell this? >> i think what the president has been doing the past week and will be doing over the next couple weeks is highlighting all the various benefits that the american people are already getting and i think that's an important thing because first he had to fix the website and it looks like we're well on track to getting there. but also make sure that people realize it's not just the several hundred thousand people that are signing up, but there are millions of people that are benefiting already whether it's through pre-existing -- the protections against pre-existing conditions or young people being allowed to stay on their policy and the other piece that's very important is the american people understand there is actually another choice besides this. and that is the republican plan, which is repeal, which is to take all of that away from you and that's what we need to keep going as democrats. >> we've heard from some