rob portman is the guy who decided he was suddenly for gay marriage after his son came out to him. so he is okay for marriage rights for his son, but not for nondiscrimination? i'm okay with you being forced out of your job, son, because of you who are? i just don't want you to go through it alone? if you're married, you can both be fired for being gay, together. how does that make sense? these maverick republicans that you see on your screen right here, these are the only three republicans in both houses of congress who support employment nondiscrimination for gay people. and while all of those members of congress are republicans in good standing, what you are not looking at there is the republican primary field for 2016. you apparently cannot support something like nondiscrimination for gay people and have any future in republican party politics. nobody who has any real prospects of being a national leader in republican politics in the next few years has anything other than 100% anti-gay policy position on something like nondiscrimination. that is apparently still a requirement i

but other members support the business senator rob portman would like to see natural gas fracking expanded to create jobs and increase you as dependence on foreign oil. we're really excited about this it's bringing back jobs good paying jobs allowing people to stay in these communities and be able to raise their families with not just a living wage but real hope for the future and it also will have an effect on our gas prices we have an opportunity here before things get worse to come up with a different solution a sensible national energy policy that stops our dangerous dependence on foreign oil and leads to more domestic production and therefore prices we can afford at the pump there are five hundred thousand active gas wells in the u.s. fracking produces about three hundred thousand barrels of natural gas a day but is that worth the environmental hazards that come along with fracking over one thousand cases of contaminated water has been documented in areas near fracking sides and only thirty to fifty percent of fracking fluid as recovered during the fracking process leaving the remaind

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. >> senators tom coburn and rob portman said the letter to the secretary of the veterans affairs a ministrationweek. basically they are essentially saying 180 wkers are working full time for unions, not military veterans. emma was striking is the list of whaa these workers are doing. senators blasting the viejo saying this is troubling. the comppomise, and data from -- i undoubtedly negatively impacts. v8 nurs, medical staers, psychologists, therapists, security guards who were supposed to be protecting buildings. doing full-time union work. this is based on government affirmation and documents. and what the senators want to know is, what exactly are they doing in terms of union work. we know that this bylaw federal workers are not allowed to strike. by law the pay and benefits are set. what are they doing essentially in terms of grievances and disciplinary matters? at that time when the viejo is also saying that the unemployment rate for 18 to 24 ye-old military veterans is higher than the national average. we are also seeing rapid homelessness among military veterans. gerri:hat is a great poi

i checked in with one republican senator who supports gay marriage, rob portman of ohio. he's fine with the rest of doma. in washington, jacqueline fell, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> president obama telephoned the plaintiff in the doma case and congratulated her. mr. obama issued a statement praising the decision. he said quote, this was discrimination enshrined in law. it treated loving couples as a separate and lesser class of people. the supreme court has righted that wrong and our country is better off for it. >>> wedding plans are underway at san francisco home of a gay couple who we met up with this morning. >> where do you to get married -- >> reporter: home of joey and matt. they watched the supreme court decision come down. when all was said and done they texted their families with the good news. should the wedding be next summer or next fall? >>> potentially damaging evidence for george zimmerman from two women who testified at his murder trial. the friend of trayvon martin who was on the phone with him before he was killed. martin told her he noticed when he called

i checked in with one republican senator who supports gay marriage, rob portman of ohio. he tells me he's fine with the rest of doma. in washington, jacqueline fell, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> president obama telephoned the plaintiff in the doma case and congratulated her. mr. obama issued a statement praising the decision. he said quote, this was discrimination enshrined in law. it treated loving couples as a separate and lesser class of people. the supreme court has righted that wrong and our country is better off for it. >>> wedding plans are underway at san francisco home of a gay couple who we met up with this morning. >> where do you to get married -- >> reporter: home of joey and matt. they watched the supreme court decision come down. when all was said and done they texted their families with the good news. should the wedding be next summer or next fall? >>> potentially damaging evidence for george zimmerman from two women who testified at his murder trial. the friend of trayvon martin who was on the phone with him before he was killed. martin told her he noticed wh

that's why your seeing senators like rob portman in ohio moving against it, thinking of a presidentialone thing i would pay attention to is in massachusetts, gabriel gomez is running as a republican against ed markey in the senate race, and gomez faces a lot of heat from republicans for having a position on immigration reform that is much closer to the gang of eight than to the opponent, and i think he -- certainly doesn't have the enthusiasm that scott brown had in 2010 behind him, i think in part because of that. >> neil: voting is underway as we speak. saying a republican can't win in massachusetts? this whole immigration debate notwithstanding, they said the same about this guy in massachusetts. i think they did. o 25 devices on one easy to manage plan. that means your smartphone, her blackberry, his laptop, mark's smartphone... but i'm still on vacation... ...stilln the plan. nice! so is his tablet, that guy's hotspot, thentern's tablet. the intern gets a tablet? everyone's devices. his, hers, oh sorry... all easier to manage on the share everything plan for small business. connec

ohio senator rob portman, accusing them of bullying small, conservative groups that can't afford lawyers. and he's not the only one. but an ohio newspaper is reporting that irs was targeting smaller groups without legal representation. nice to see you, sir. >> thank you for having me. >> tell me, what is the information you have to suggest that the irs targeted smaller groups without lawyers? >> we looked at the nine groups from ohio and kentucky that went through the process and were indeed finally did tax exempt status approved, and, you know, we had been interviewing them all along and one them mentioned the fact that he was involved with two of them, and one of them that had a lawyer, had a lawyer and did a more professional application that theirs did not get the level of scrutiny his first attempt did, so that kin of pulled a trigger in my head, and i said, well, maybe i should ask the other ones what they went through and we determined that two of the nine groups from the ohio and kentucky indeed did not have a lawyer when they first started and they did get the extra questioning,

and then there's ohio senator bob -- rob portman. the senate, he slammed his opponent's support of the health care law. >> he's a strong supporter of washington's health care law. it's not working for ohio. >> not working for ohio. then why did you write a letter saying a grant from the law would provide, quote, essential services to an additional 8,966 uninsured individuals? senator, there's your name right there. i guess you thought it was working well after all. and hypocrisy is not just in the senate. ears south dakota congresswoman christy knome. >> we owe it to every that don't put washington in charge of our health care. >> repeal this law. really, congresswoman? then why did you ask for a grant from a health center for a health center in your district? did you think we won't notice their unhealthy hypocrisy? nice try, but here's my diagnosis. we got you. i've noticed a huge improvement. [ male announcer ] go pro for a clean that's up to four times better, try these crest pro-health products together. the toothpaste is really

you have people like rob portman who have become strong supporters of gay marriage but i would say thatrepublicans are united in their conviction-- including portman-- that this should be done through legislative methods and not done through the imposition of courts. >> i don't argue that. but what it does is it energizes a base which is quite frankly representing a distinct minority of the country at this point. and it a shrinking minority. so you saw republican house members yesterday michele bachmann among others saying we're going to lead the fight here. to the degree that this becomes the face of the republican party when it doesn't have a national standard bearer or president, i think that's a problem for the party this is seen as narrow minded, that is seen as sort of mean spirited. so i think the other thing is over the past ten years, 15 years, more and more people because of the climate, because of the acceptance of gay people and gay status, gay identification have come out. and more people have relatives, friends, neighbors, coworkers so they have a greater stake in this. i

she joins her gop colleagues mark kirk of illinois and rob portman of ohio.low their lead? my answer might be a bit predictable. but of course i think they should. think about t marriage equality has something for liberals and conservatives alike. freedom, family, oh, yeah, keeping the government out of our bedrooms. it's a no brainer, but i just have to say that -- i have to add something that lisa murkowski added in her statement and that was and out of our families. i think too often the discussion on gay rights, marriage equality boils down to, oh, being gay is only about sex. it's only about what happens in the bedroom when really this whole conversation, this fight is about legal protection for lgbt families so they have the stability and protection just like everybody else under the law. >> yeah, agreed. i'll add to murkowski's comments as a conservative who's advocated for gay marriage and gay rights. for me, marriage should be promoted. it's a stabilizing factor and gets people less dependent on government when they're in a marriage. two, we should w

recently when rob portman came out in support of gay marriage, chambliss refused to endorse marriage equality. he said i'm not gay so i'm not going to marry one prompting millions of gay american men to say not on your best day saxby. he might be extremely right wing. since he doesn't hate all democrats, he's facing a primary challenge from the jackal wing of the g.o.p. when he announced he would not seek re-election some felt sorry for him and then came this week. when the senate armed services committee held hearings on military sexual assault. which featured two witnesses who want reform and 18 witnesses who endorse the current military policy on sexual assault of covering one's ears and going la, la la, la, la, la. now, we don't doubt that saxby chambliss cares deeply about this issue. he's clearly as devoted to supporting the women who serve in our wars as he was once devoted to not having to serve in that war he supported. but then, he had to go and say this. i'm going to quote. the young folks who are coming into each of your services are anywhere from 17 to 22 or 23. gee, whi

now she joined senator rob portman of ohio and mark kirk of illinois is the only republican senators to support marriage equality so are we going to start seeing republican senators coming out as it were you know you know well pun intended i suppose. good for senator murkowski and you know why i say good for her i'm glad she didn't wait until after getting elected to trick people into thinking that she shares their values she's actually going to be going before the alaska electorate with that record and give those people an opportunity to decide whether they agree with it or not after they voted on a statewide constitutional amendment and after their legislature said marriage is between man and a woman we'll give she's giving them the opportunity so good for her i wish more democrats would take that approach. well there's you know i i do think that. even though conservatives might not want to hear this but yeah this ship has sailed in a lot of things but the next debate and the most important debate we're going to have is how are people of faith going to be treated are they going to

rob portman has another amendment that will make it even stronger. bill: some on the right believe the senate is going pass a version, the house will pass its version, then you apply an amnesty clause, that passes in the senate and forces the republicans in the house to make a decision and ultimately that divides the party. what do you think about that? >> i wake up each day and deal with the thanks at hand. our task is to pass out of the senate a balanced and strong the house has the ability to do whatever it -- bill: understood. but on the politics of it, do you think ultimately this is detrimental to the party? >> there are some people regardless of what an immigration says are always going to vote against us. let's let these two bodies work the way that they should. republicans control the house and nothing is going to get out of there that republicans don't support. let's have a conference. let's deal with this issue. let's not hide in the closet. let's not put our heads under the bed. let's deal with this issue. we have an ability to debate thi

. >> senator tom coburn and rob portman sent a letter demanding answers to why based on government documentsorkers were paid taxpayer funded salaries and benefits to do union work full time. government documents show v.a. nurses, pharmacists, psychologists, dental lab assistants and security guards hired to protect buildings like hospitals instead do union work full time the senators say. they call it troubling and it could, quote, compromise the well-being of vets. undoubtedly impact veterans. it came at a time when joblessness among 18-24 veterans are s higher than the national average and homelessness among vets is still a problem. they say the president is still serious about cutting the backlog. the v.a. says it will respond to the letters and aggressively cutting the backlog, but do federal workers doing union work and get pay raises and bonuses and get to work at home? they are not allowed to strike and come pen signifies savings set by law and all federal workers doing full time union work at $156 million in 2011. that is up by 12% from the year prior. >> megyn: the president's criti

what the senators are upset about, rob portman and tom coburn.ally doing full-time union work. here is what they said in the letter a day after press secretary jay carney saved the president is deadly serious about claims backlog at the va. senators are blasting the va. this is troubling. compromising the well-being of our nation's veterans and undoubtedly will negatively impact veterans. issue, va is he will telling fox business it will prepare a response to the senators letter. they are saying that they are aggressive trying to cut back that claims backlog and they're saying though, that too many vets have to wait too long. this comes as, the unemployment rate among 18 to 24-year-old veterans is running higher than the national average. terrible homelessness among military veterans. what is going on too, what these union workers, essentially, va workers doing union duties, they do, they do basically grievances or disciplinary matters. it is illegal to strike if you're a federal worker. pay and benefits are set by law. mostly grievances work. th

rob portman of ohio, he's now supporting same-sex marriage.an national committee's autopsy. the legal case is fascinated here. i think the culture war is very much alive. i was although the faith and freedom conference in washington, d.c. the republicans who are running in the -- trying to run, perhaps n the 2016 presidential election are very much pro-traditional marriage or whatever you want to call, it pro-life. this is still the bloc of the republican party that animates a lot of the decision. >> pro-life and pro-gay marriage are not option. there are those who are pro-life and for marriage equality. that's an important distinction in the new republican party. the cultural wars may be alive, but alive within the republican party and maybe between sort of progressives and conservatives. again, many conservatives making arguments for marriage equality. the culture war may be alive but most americans doernt care about it. if you look at polling on marriage equality, more and more people are drifting toward favoring it. not like, i'm going to

one of them is particularly of interest, senator rob portman of ohio as an amendment that would tighten up the electronic verification system. it has been vetted and approved by everyone on both sides of the aisle. people i think our little nervous about it. it's not like they're thrilled about it but they would support it and portman has indicated that he would support final passage of the legislation if the amendment was put in but he also asked for a separate vote. as you're trying to cut down towards legislation asking for a separate vote is kind of a big deal. that means that if there's someone else on the democratic side who wants a separate vote on their amendment, they have to get that in the next immunity that someone else raising enhancing i want a vote on my amended. by their children figured out as far as i'm. >> you wrote that electronic revocation is considered an essential part of the underlying bill. why is that? >> we have to backup a little bit. this is not the portman, this is what's in the underlying bill which is, it's a mandatory electronic verification of people's

comments, i hope that this body, i hope that senators on my side of the aisle will not block senator rob portman's amendment on e-verify which greatly strengthens the bill. but i agree with senator. yes, i hope we'll have a plethora of amendments offered this week, debated this week and voted on this week. and i would just say to the good senator from alabama who i really cherish serving with, i have not blocked one single amendment from being voted on. i don't know if the senator from alabama has blocked any. but the fact is i say let's let it roll. i'd love to see another 50 or 80 amendments this week if time will allow. so let's let it roll. i'm all for that 100%. >> well, i appreciate the senator saying that, but it's not going to happen. because when you give cloture tonight, senator reid is going to be in complete control of the voting process. amendments will be at his pleasure. the ones he thinks he's willing to vote on and ones that he doesn't approve of, he won't be voting on. so i just would say that's where we are. and that's a fact, and we're going to have other cloture motions, and t

some of the folks i think you will see voting for it are people like dean heller from nevada, rob portman from ohio. they haven't committed yet, but they have been meeting with folks in their their states hispanic activists so when they vote, sthek capitalize. i think some of the farm state senators, jerry moran and pat roberts from kansas, you know mike joe hans from nebraska, deb fisher from nebraska people like that who would really benefit from the my grant workers who come in average year, and then et outline, the connell tours, if you will of the opposition are shaping up as well. i think you will see grassley probably even though he is from iowa, i doubt grassley is a yes on this at the end. people like geoff sessions and richard shelby in alarms, sessions is driving the opposition. she willbey goes look with him. one of the things i am actually going to do in all of the amendments that are going to come up over the next couple of weeks -- and i think there are going to be a significant number offered from the floor. i will keep a close eye on how marco rubio, rand paul and ted cru

the first rob portman of ohio and then mark kirk of illinois.s evolving. the timing on this likely not such an accident. the supreme court's going to rule on the constitutionality of the defense of marriage act and california's prop 8 before the end of this month. >>> meanwhile president obama gave a speech at the brandenburg gate in berlin this morning one week shy of the 50th anniversary of president kennedy's speech in which he famously said -- the famous address covered a range of topics including a call for reducing the world's stockpile of nuclear weapons. >> obama: after a comprehensive review, i determine that we can ensure the security of america and our allies and maintain a strong incredible strategic deterrent while losing our deployed strategic nuclear weapons by up to 1/3. i intend to seek negotiated cuts with russia to move beyond cold war nuclear postures. >> the new stark treaty ratified by the u.s. senate in december of 2010 put our current limit of nuclear weapons at 1,550 so reducing that by a third means both sides would hav

laid out very clearly what they need in op-eds in their home states, dean heller from nevada and rob portmanm ohio, all of those boxes have been checked so that's -- they're going to get to yes. that's 60 votes right there. that's what you need to pass this actual bill. you've still got the four democrats, the four red state dems. there is a group of 10 to 15 republican legislators republicans in the senate who are eyeing each other who will be in favor of this bill. if a lot of their colleagues are. there was that famous line during the healthcare fight when chuck grassley was asked if you get everything in this bill but you're the only republican to vote for it, will you be for it and he said no. he couldn't be the only republican there. in this case, it is the same situation. you've got 10 or 15 guys eyeing each other who would really love to be the 70th yes vote on this and hate to be the 61st. it is a lot harder to get to yes when there are fewer republicans on board. but i think at the end of the day, there are, at the moment only six hard no votes against this bill. probably another 1

the ohio senator rob portman was up there friday, bobby jindal has been up there, rand paul has beens chris christie go to iowa, hasment ham, south carolina, florida to raise money for other republicans when can he still say i haven't decided, he can do the legwork and build a team, much more important than any day on the calendar. >> i want to turn for a moment to the politics of the irs scandal. congressman elijah cummings released transcripts with interviews with the irs the oversight committee did investigating what's going on with the scandal. what do you think these transcripts are revealing? >> this is a political stunt if you will and i'm not belittling it but it's against committee rules or tradition to do this. elijah cummings is responding to what he believes is a bigger political stunt and political misinformation by the chairman, darrell issa. why are they doing this, americans believe, a lot of americans believe the irs targeting of tea party groups started in the obama white house. there's zero evidence of that so elijah cummings wants to put this statement out there.

this immigration overhaul but let's take a look at some of the key no votes, rand paul, ted cruz, rob portmane some of the potential 2016 contenders, john. how do you think immigration plays for republicans in 2016, because we know after 2012 they had some work to do. >> so the leadership of the party says we have to deal with this problem, we need to pass this bill so we can rebuild our support in the latino community. what does this vote guarantee? a couple of those guys are going to run for president. mark yo rubio voted yes, he's in the gang of eight and for this bill. you have ted cruz the tea party guy. rand paul votes no, to the right of marco rubio. he supported george w. bush's immigration policy, he was just in new hampshire not that long ago testing the waters for 2016, a moderate republican voting no. it tells you the hard core right base of the republican party still doesn't like this bill and it guarantees this will be a flashpoint in the 2016 presidential primaries for the republicans. two words to tell you how that worked for them last time, self-deport. >> exactly right, john

comments, i hope that this body, i hope that senators on my side of the aisle, will not block senator rob portman's amendment on everify which stricken strengthens the bill. i hope we'll have a plethora of amendments offered, disease baited and voted on this week, and i would say to the good for from alabama, who i cherish serving with, i have not brought one single amendment from being voted on. i don't know if the senator from alabama has blocked any but i say let's let it roll. i'm all for that. 100%. >> i appreciate the senator saying that. but it's not going to happen because when you give cloture tonight, senator reid will be in complete control hoff the voting it was 49 or so amendments voted on. we have done nine, and discussions were going on thursday wednesday/thursday night. they have another sixteen, and i was advocating more amendments be brought up. i thought we had an agreement to do that. we are moving to the great amendment. the grand amendment that fixes things came up. let me just go on and point out a few things i think are troubling with the legislation, and we can go on, you k

one of them is particularly of interest, senator rob portman of ohio, has an amendment that would tighten up the electronic verification system. it has been vetted and approved by everyone on both sides of the aisle. people, i think, are a little nervous about it. it's not like they're thrilled about it, but they do, they would support it. and portman has indicated that he would support be final passage of the legislation if the amendment was put in. but he also asked for a separate vote. and in, as you're trying to count down toward legislation, asking for a separate vote is kind of a big deal. that means if there's somebody else on the democratic side who wants a separate vote on their amendment, they have to get that, and the next thing you know you've got somebody else raising their hand saying i want a vote on my amendment. so it's really a procedural issue. but they're still trying to figure it out, as far as i know. >> you wrote that electronic verification is an essential part of the bill. why is that? >> right. we have to back up a little bit. this is what is in the underlying bi

and mike lee marco rubio is trying to convince, i have think it is people like dean heller and rob portmanlegislating caucus of the republican conference in the senate. it is going to be fascinating to watch how some of these agriculture state senators are voting are, jerry moran and pat roberts from kansas and watch how their house colleagues vote. in a lot of cases, not going to be surprising if we see the ag state senators voting for this bill, putting pressure on their members of the house delegations in those same states and seeing a lot of those house members vote willing against because the pressures of a primary campaign at the moment i think are a lot more sort of heated for and costly for a house member than a senator. >> good points all. lynn, we mentioned a couple of issues here, pathway to citizenship, lgbt couples, out during the discussion of the debate during the judiciary committee and when they were debating this very issue, family reunification, health care access, as mentioned earlier, which of these might, if you look at it, which of them might be tracking to possibly

comments, i hope that this body, i hope that senators on my side of the aisle will not block senator rob portman's amendment on everify which greatly strengthens the bill. but i agree with the senator. i hope we'll have a plethora of amendments offered this week, debated this week and voted on this week. and i will just say to the good senator from alabama who i really cherish serving with, i have not blocked one single amendment from being voted on. i don't know if the senator from alabama has blocked any. but the fact is i say let's let it roll. i'd love to see another 50 or 80 amendments this week if time will allow. let's let it roll. i'm all for that. mr. sessions: i appreciate the senator saying that -rs but it's 0 not going to happen because when you give cloture tonight senator reid is going to be in complete control of the voting process amendments will be at his pleasure, the ones he thinks he's willing to vote on and ones that he doesn't approve of he won't be voting on. so i would just say that's where we are. that's a fact and we're going to have other cloture motions and the goal wil