he is not doing what the bipartisan bill passed the senate would have done which is give a path to citizenship for everyone here who is undocumented. gwen: the president says pass that bill, what bill is he talking about? >> he is talking about, in his view, his own bill. pass my idea, which is never going to pass in this congress. he would be fine with the senate bill. they were fine with the senate bill. i was struck by in his speech, i thought it was the most aggressive sort of a moral defense of why this is, it's the fabric of our country. i couldn't recall him giving an immigration speech like that in so long. gwen: ever, really? >> in the 2008 campaign, i don't think since then he was in that very same high school in las vegas, the week after the new hampshire primary, i was looking it up because it sounded familiar. he was making the immoral argument which was so striking. by saying pass that bill, of course, going forward, that's the question, is a bill ever going to happen. >> there is a big difference between deferral of deportation and a path to citizenship. that's fundamentally wha

, pass the senate bill exactly as it is and send it to the president. e two chambers for a reason. the house of representatives has yet to write its own bill. presumably if it was going to write a bill, it would write a bill somewhat different from the senate bill. they would go to a conference with each other. they would try to hammer that out. it's not at all clear they could actually come to any agreement to send something to the president. in terms of the traditional legislative process, what the president is saying, while it might be true if you put the senate bill on the house floor, i think if you looked for where the majority of the house is, it might be -- you might get a stronger majority for something different or a republican majority for something different. it's unusual to have the senate bill pass a bill and then have the house take it up and pass it, particularly this will deal with some tax measures in the constitution, all those bills have to originate in the house. >> abby, i feel like our esteemed guest here knows so much about washin

500 days since the senate passed the immigration bill. a couple of years since the speaker has been saying over and over again we will pass the immigration bill in the house. may not be the senate bill. congress is going to prevent them from doing executive action by legislating on the subject at hand i passing the bipartisan senate bill that passed over 500 days ago. we have heard a lot of different things about that. voting for one year extension. republicansts of who wanted it to the renewed. >> they're having conversations now on this. the senate has passed a bipartisan committee bill, which is a good place, i think, to start and i think and. there are certain equities to be balanced. one is that we have to have revenue reform. but when you make so many things permanent in the bill like this you diminish the beverage from .ne part to another decreased revenue so we can deficit. decrease the i would hope they can come out with something that reflects the passed billartisan in the committee. the problem i have with permanent aspects of i

the senate passes a a bill. rder states, you know, it's got orrin hatch, true conservatives, and then boehner -- >> -- continues the process and talk about it. >> process to do it, mary >> that's all in the past. anythingçátf÷es and you say give him more time, bill. >> that's right. best thing for the country. >> also a constitutional democracy and congress is supposed to pass this. >> he asked me a question i'm going to has been it and disend sendh@(oç you on your wa. >> i don't believe that the republicans are going to react like mr. roveip really okay, well, we wall wait. i believe there is going to be a vicious tear your throat out war over this if he signs executive action. that is bad for the entire country. >> they hate obama and you are going to say this going to cause problems? >> you are so nasty, juan. >>ú3hlm don't hate obama, i'm&u> over here arguing about the process.!st> we need to concentn the economybpy'%irst. immigration after that juan and mary katharine, everybody. there he there they are. chi

they were back on the senate bill. and most advocates in the house of representatives would tell you that there is a majority in the house and the senate bill which is precisely why the speaker won't bring it to the floor. so, in that sense, the political win for the democrats was huge because they will call us behind the democrats more enthusiastically than they have even so far. and remember that the turnout was down a little bit and a little disappointed. this will be a political boom for whoever will see him at the top of the ticket in 2015. >> do you understand the frustration that some people feel feel that all of a sudden allowing and making an executive order with regard to immigration instead of having to go through the congress? >> i do and i don't. some of it is manufactured because they are told that he's acting unconstitutionally and is breaking the law. if that is the case when ronald reagan broke the law and george herbert walker bush broke the law. but in terms of the frustration they have a bill of thei

he doesn't have the legal authority to do everything that is in the senate bill. the president believes we should provide a path to citizenship for people who are prepared to pay back taxes and learn english. that was in the senate bill. he can't do that. there great limitations to what he wants to do to what he can't do. after last year he went back to his secretary of homeland security and he said give me recommendations about what i can do that is well within of scope of my authority and upon the advice of his council as well as a wide range of experts around the country, what he will announce tonight, he has the authority to do. >> does it concern you or the president that in our new "wall street journal" poll, 48% of those questioned disapprove of him taking executive action and only 38% approve. >> one of the reasons he wants to address the american people is to explain what actions he is taking and put them in context and give them a real concrete example of what he will be doing and after he does so and he is looking forward to having a chance to go tomorro

the senate bill was the senate's negotiating center.the state exchange oriented induced states rather than federal exchange negotiating a draft. problem is and michael is responsible for this slide. then there was this. scott brown is elected in massachusetts. there were no longer 60 votes in senate, no longer enough for a house senate conference bill. the choice at that point became a bill that a lot of people didn't like. the president said there were things he didn't like. letter of 51 health policy experts urging the house to act said a lot of things in bills we don't like. they're imperfect. the choice is clear. pass it through the senate bill, and improve through reconciliation. other limitations of the senate bill can be addressed through other means. to read the full bill, what they meant was not administrative fiat. they meant this will cause democratic gains in congress in 2010. we'll be able to fix it legislatively. oops. everyone understood the bill was not what anyone really wanted. it was the bill that could get passed. it

voted on it so, you know, the question is, can we repeal the bill? that's up to the senators the house will pass a repeal of obamacare, rest assured. the question is are those united states senators who still remain in the senate, and voted in the affirmative, having not read the bill, having not understood the implications of the bill going to stand and defend it today? >> are we going to have hearings on any -- i suppose on the substantive part of obamacare we are. i keep asking everyone about jonathan gruber thing. is that just noise? there aren't going to be hearings on him or on his statements? >> clearly is he an idiot. i'm not sure anybody in the obama administration is going to try to defend. >> he theys he is pretty senator by the way. >> most professors do. let me tell you this. i don't need a hearing to know whether or not healthcare freedom just yums have gone up or down. i haven't found a single person out of the 700,000 i represent in illinois that have gotten the discount that was promised. >> do they keep to keep their doctors. >> keep their doctors. i don't n

they want the senate bill and the senate bill is not good for america. >> so congressman, i'll ask youcontentious, difficult, impossible it seems to get people together to deal with an issue, both sides say is broken. >> you know, i think the biggest issue now is that we have been trying in congress for 30 years to fix this problem in a comprehensive way. when i came to congress four years ago, i said stop looking at this as a big, comprehensive approach. immigration system is large. i practiced immigration law for 15 years. it is a large, complex system. we can deal with it in pieces instead of dealing with it in a comprehensive way. then we can find consensus. you find different consensus. some people like some bills, others like other bills. it will have to be done in bipartisan way. but we can get this fixed, and i think it is unfortunate that the president tonight has decided to ignore the will of the american people, even the hispanic community is not happy about what he is going to do tonight. and i think we need to make sure he doesn't do it. he needs to understand he can come

a wide open vote on the senate bill. >> on the senate bill in the house?yeah. >> i think he's get 350 votes. easy. you get almost every democrat and you get half the republicans. do the math. >> so why didn't boehner throw it open to the house and say, vote your conscience, vote, i think we need immigration reform? then he could retire. [ laughter ] no, really. do one big thing and then walk. >> i'm not certain he wouldn't do that. you're right about the window here. we'll see how that plays out. i took from josh's interview the fact that after six years these guys still don't trust each other. when you talk about maybe we do this in bite-size chunks and just see how it works out, that's still, at the end of the day, chris, is still the underlying issue. it really is. >> that sounds like the israelis, let's do confidence-building. >> let him finish. what's wrong with a grand deal on the things we're talking about? >> there's nothing wrong with the grand deal on this. because you have the framework. the framework, and josh hit it, it's the senate bill. so t

we all know that. >> why should the house be forced to take wholesale senate bill when the senate has said they will not take up house pass bills? >> but congressman -- the house has done nothing except that one border security bill. john boehner said we're going to deal with this piece by piece months ago. he's dealt with one small piece. >> we're going to come back and continue this discussion. >> the heated debate. >> scarlet will separate them. >> this is the most fun we've had at 6:00 a.m. in a long time. [laughter] >> all right. we're going to talk about the controversial keystone pipeline when "surveillance" returns. ♪ >> we engage on the conversation on the issue which is immigration. with us, ted strickland from ohio, aaron shark with us from illinois. a heated debate. scarlet, why don't you continue this pain? >> one thing that republicans point out is how the president taking ute lateral action but the numbers would suggest that he doesn't use that all too often. >> the fact is that there was a time when both parties were willing to work together to achieve a desirable outc

the senate. because the bills that come out of the senate, as you say, they have to get that supermajority vote. whereas the bills you mentioned in the house, yes you had some democrats but we don't have the supermajority requirement. so they don't meet that same test. so the immigration reform is exhibit a. it met all the tests you just said. speaker boehner won't let it come to a vote. so because of the differences between the senate and house, which you described, there is no excuse not to have a vote in the house on bills that passed the senate. >> i know we can go back and forth but let me just say -- >> can we end with one positive thing? time is almost up. everyone will say for all those people, this election doesn't matter, i feel frustrated, washington is broken, can you give us optimism whether the state or whether from anywhere? very quickly anyone wants to stand up and say this is why i'm glad i'm in congress, this is why everybody should vote? >> i think most underreported story around health care, most overreported story the affordable care act. most underreported story is incredibl

bill. then at the last minute the committee removed our bill from the agenda, had no consideration of it, denied us a vote and we never got an answer as to why. again, senator manchin and i were assured the committee would vote on this bipartisan bill. we were told the committee would work with our staffs during the five-week recess in august and provide a vote in september. but the committee ignored our staffs during the august recess and there was no such consideration in september. and now here we are seven and a half weeks after we went on recess in september and i still have no confidence that the committee is going to take this up and move this legislation. in the meantime tophic child predators have not been at rest. they've been moving on to new victims every day brings another story of a teacher arrested, another story of a childhood shattered, a family that's torn apart by grief and betrayal. i just think the children of america have waited long enough and i'm saying no more waiting. no more promises about jurisdiction and process and procedures that don't take place. no more passing child molesters on to new schools and new victims, no more defen

the pipeline will create jobs. they plan to resurrect the bill when they control the senate next year. >> this will be an early itemn the agenda in the next congress, and i'm very confident that senator hogan's bill will succeed and we'll be able to get it down to the president. >> the white house says president obama does not support the senate bill. >>> a setback for the president's pledge to rein in the surveillance of americans. senate republicans voted tuesday to block a bill to overhaul the national security agency. the measure would have curbed the nsa's access to the bulk collection of phone records. it was a response to disclosures from former nsa contractor edward snowden. >>> coming up on "the morning news," a celebrity model is the latest to accuse bill cosby of sexual assault. >>> and close call in chicago where a plane slammed into a home, missing a couple inside by inches. this is the "cbs morning news." sir, we're loaded and getting ready to go... ...we're going to need you on the runway. (vo) don't let a severe cold hold you back. sir? (vo) theraflu starts to get to work in your body in just 5 minu

the senate bill -- from the time the senate bill passed, to his speech last night was one year, four hs and 24 days. that's plenty of time to take up a bill. if they didn't like the senate bill in the house, they could have passed another one. and i think there's something you're hearing from them now that suggests he was right to assume they weren't interested in doing anything. because they're saying now that the president has done this, we can't pass a bill. well, if you're a republican who claims to be for immigration reform, why don't you prove the president wrong, not by saying we can't do anything, but by actually passing a bill. i think it really puts the establishment -- so-called establishment republicans in a box. what are they going to do? are they going to now try to pass a law that says no, we want to go back to a time when the government was breaking up families? let's be clear about this. this decision is about family values. our government was busting up the families of undocumented immigrants. and most of the people helped here are going to be parents in those famili

the senate allowed to go forward, that legislation that passed? >> well, as you know, last year with the discussion, with the senate bill, immigration got very divided and it became a hot topic. that's a real issue. you have people running in elections and that comes into play and everything else. but the president doesn't get to pick congress. he doesn't get to make laws if congress doesn't go along with it. we exist for a reason. you may not like everything that goes on in the sausage making of washington, d.c. and behind the doors, but that doesn't mean you can just say, i don't like that, therefore, i'm going to just do it anyway. and i think, again, we have an opportunity with the new congress, a larger republican majority, a republican senate, to get something that we can put on the president's desk, do a little back and forth and ultimately come to something that both sides can maybe hold their nose on certain parts of but agree to in a broader package. but anybody that thinks this step friday is going to do anything to make immigration reform more likely out here i think is fooling yourself. it could still happen. i hope it does. but this is

the calendar. but we can all compromise here. i'm also a cosponsor of the bill, the lead sponsor of the bill that's on the senate calendar. it doesn't have to go through a committee. it basically technically alrea already, you know, has. it is ready for a vote. and we have the 60 votes to pass >> over in the house, bill cassidy is the sponsor of legislation similar to that of senator landrieu's. he is her challenger. that raises head off to a runoff in december after neither of the two reached 50% of the vote. here is bill cassidy on the house floor talking about his legislation. him five minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from louisiana is recognized for five minutes. mr. cassidy: thank you, mr. speaker. it has been over six years since backers of the keystone x.l. pipeline first submitted an application to the u.s. state department on september 19, 2008, to build this energy infrastructure project and bring jobs and greater energy security to america. now, building the keystone x.l. pipeline would create more than 40,000 average annual jobs, over a one to two-year construction period, putting $2 billion into

. 500 days since the senate passed the immigration bill. and a couple of years since the speaker said over and over again we will pass an immigration bill in the house. it may not be the senate bill and it may not be a vote of confidence in the senate bill that we will establish principles. remember that they went up the flagpole and the members came down the flagpole is nonetheless come a don't be excited about it. it's going to happen and then it didn't. so the congress could prevent the president from doing executive action by legislating on the subject at hand, passing this bipartisan senate bill that passed over 500 days ago. >> [inaudible] voting for the one-year extension on the petition to be provision to be renewed and there are a lot of republicans who also -- [inaudible] >> thank you for the question. we are having conversations now in the house and the senate and if the senate passed a bipartisan committee bill which is a good place i think to start and i think two and because there are certain equities to be balanced. one is tha

but -- >> we just had this happen last week, a bipartisan majority in the house voted for a bill and a bipartisan majority in the senate voted for a bill but the president said i won't pass a pipeline that will create a lot of jobs for union workers. we can do this and the president will block it. >> doug heye, maria hinojosa thank you. now rachel. >> thanks at home for joining us. >>> it was a hot day in june, the summer beforehe

it's hurting our economy. >> i mean, 497 days and they haven't voted on the immigration bill that passed the senateyou're in that congress. they won't vote on the bill. they won't deal with obamacare. isn't boehner starting things off on a bad note, congressman. >> if they didn't learn with 50 votes when the democrats were in control of the senate, that they couldn't get that bill through, they'll never learn, rev. they are going to go and do it again, because they don't want the president to ever get the credit for having started national health insurance. they know he'll have the same kind of legacy as franklin dell ano roosevelt did when he started social security and unemployment insurance, and all the programs that came as a result of the last bank failure. this bank failure in 2007, what came out of it, we saved the banks and we got health care on the road. and they do not want president obama to get credit for that. >> clearly they wanted to stop him from being president, then stop from him being re-elected. now stop his place in history. but they have already lost the health care fight. the

. >>> the senate today is working on the keystone xl pipeline bill. a vote is scheduled for about 615 p.m. live coverage is on c-span 2. with the pipeline vote coming up later we are asking whether you think the senate should approve the bill. you can leave your thoughts on twitter or our facebook page. more now from a reporter covering this issue. >> the house passed a version last week. when will the senate take it up? >> thanks for having me on. the senate is scheduled to vote this evening probably a little after 6:00 p.m. tonight. this has been part of a push that senator mary landrieu single handedly launched last week. she took the floor and worked out a deal. she has been spending her time trying to find colleagues to get on board. >> is she the one that is whipping the vote for this? or are the democratic leadership, are they helping out or are they sitting this one out? >> they seem to be not helping her out too much. it's not clear how much they are whipping against this, either. right now public stands 59 senators on board. she needs to find

bill? why not? >> they never actually sent it to us in the senate. remember it was my bill in the 112 bill sent to the senate. i think republicans did a terrible job not talking about it. dealt with high skilled immigrants. dealt with family-based visas. we need to tackle these issues one at a time. >> you are telling me the senate bill never its way from the u.s. senate to the u.s. house of representatives. >> they never sent it over it had a blue slip problem. funding problems with it. nevertheless, there are those of us that believe we have to tackle and fix legal immigration. but this is not the way to do it. you are creating this amnesty for these people and it's making it more painful to go through the legal lawful way and it just sours the pot for actually going to meaningful immigration reform through the proper channels. >> why is the the president doing this and why tonight? >> because he just got slaughtered in an election. it's crystal clear. it's all about politics. the american people want us to be working together. i disagree with the p

the executive order, pass a bill. send the president a bill. that would end the executive order. >> pass the senate bill. >> they have their power in a month to do away with this executive order. >> congressman, senior white house officials broke down what this process would work like. what it would be like. parents will be able to apply for deferred action if they've been in the country for five years and if they don't have a criminal record, which you pointed out. separately they can apply for work authorization, but it does not provide a path to citizenship. what do you make of the plan? >> here's what i make of the plan. as governor rendell just stated to us, what the president is doing is a first step. it's an initiation of a process to heal our broken immigration system. but the people who have to finish the job is the congress of the united states. the members of the house and the senate. and i just want to echo the statements of the governor. this program does not begin until january 1st of 2015. it will take 180 days from that moment until someone can apply for a work permit or anything fr

but it's not simply an e issue of we'll just pass the senate bill. that's not real iszic. >> well, what john b orksz ehner came back and said we want to do this piecemeal. and the president responded to that and said you want to do it piecemeal. great. let's do it piecemeal. and joan phn bo orksz boehner na single piece. >> it's not just the border. it's air ports. it's people coming on boats. i thought he was going to quote\neil diamond there for a second. >> it's part of what he has done. tonight, he said he's going to do even more. that was part one. >> i don't believe that. i don't believe that we're going to see a tightened border. >> this is the tightened border that we have. >> one of the reasons we don't have as many imgramigrants comi over, we haven't been that beacon of hope to the entire world of e over the past few years. american families don't believe that their children are going to have it better in the next general rati generation than we have it right now. >> you know how we fix it? we take people out of the shadows so that they can

and last year 68 democrats, republicans and independents, came together to pass a bipartson bill in the senate. it wasn't perfect. it was a compromise. but it reflected common sense. had the house of representatives allowed that kind of bill a simple yes or no vote, it would have passed with support from both parties. and today it would be the law. but for a year and a half now republican leaders in the house have refused to allow that vote. so if you've been in america for more than five years, if you have children that are american citizens or legal residents, if you registered, pass a criminal background check and willing to pay your fair share of taxes, you'll be able to apply to stay in this country temporarily without fear of deportation. you can come out of the shadows and get right with the law. i know some of the critics of this action call it amnesty. well, it's not. amnesty is the immigration system we have today. millions of people who live here without paying their taxes or playing by the rules while politicians use the issue to scare people and whip up votes at election time. the

the senate. the house bill o has no projections for landowners. it says you're subject to eminent domain by a foreign corporation and you have no protection as. but the other bill protects private property rights but senator landrieu has worked on this for years it gives the senate seal of approval tuz said the signal to america that congress is working together to support our economy and create jobs to make responsible decisions but as this debate news for bird i will continue to push that the wailes stays in america i have heard the arguments on all sides that north americans should stay in north america to make more energy secure more affordable for homes and businesses and working families to lead to more good manufacturing jobs to recruit that back to the base that we gave up 20 or 30 years ago there is a lot of reasons to approve the keystone pipeline. but will support the middle class and we need to support the middle-class to make us more secure and strengthen the infrastructure system. but we need a reason to trust that building that pipel

but the house sent a bill over here, too. apparently, both the house and senate are so far from where the other side is that neither is willing to take up the other bill. but that's the constitution. the constitution is designed so that when we change law, we don't that in a fairly cumbersome way. but that's served our country pretty well for a long time, and it's not up to the president to decide that that can be suspended on a topic that he thinks is important and a topic that he in fact has previously said he couldn't do on his own. as he was talking about this the last several months, not just republicans but republicans and democrats -- and i will admit, particularly democrats in close races around the country -- said that the president was overstepping his authority; the president is putting people in jeopardy of not knowing whether they're really here on some kind of basis that nobody has quite defined or quite understands, even after he acts. recently a union representing thousands of federal immigration officers raised an alarm that the united states gov

the senate. it's not a perfect bill. i was hopeful the house would pass a more perfect bill.k we will do that. what the president did is not a lasting way of solving this problem. it's a temporary way of not even solving it and creating a huge uproar that is going to make it more difficult to pass real immigration reform. i'm going to work with zoe and others who feel otherwise and hopefully we can get this done in a way that is decent, honorable and welcoming to people who already are here and aren't going to go home. >> all right. >> so i'll do my best. zoe, i hope we can work together. >> i suspect both of you will be seeing both of you on a house/senate conference committee working outcome pr out compromised legislation moving forward. thank you for joining us, zoe lofgren and orrin hatch, thank you for joining me. let's see if your colleagues can get together and work out some sort of reasonable compromise. that's what your job is. let's hope you guys can do it. appreciate it very much. >>> up next, we're just days away from a deadline for a nuclear deal between iran and

and for six years, steve, he's said, take a look at the senate bill. know, speaker boehner of the house, they didn't even produce a bill whatsoever. so now i think republicans are outraged. yeah, they won the election, but i think we have a constitutional government. we have an executive branch. we have a congress, and a president can take this executive action legally, and it's going to be up to the republicans to come up with an alternative. this is only going to last three years or two years. they can pass a comprehensive legalization plan that obviates this if they want. but to just say he doesn't have the authority, this is terrible, gridlock. they've produced this gridlock that we find ourselves today on a broken immigration system that desperately needs to be fixed. the only way it can happen is in a bipartisan way. >> thank you both for joining us tonight. appreciate that. much more ahead as we await president obama's announcement, less than an hour from now. we'll look at the strategy from both sides. both sides are ready for a fight. who is be

the fact is a strong bipartisan bill was passed by the united states senate. if i were the president, i would go to john boehner and say i'm willing to withdraw my plan for executive action if you're willing to put this bill on the floor for a vote. i'll live with the results of that vote. there's a very good reason to believe that a majority of members of the house support this bipartisan senate bill and while the republicans are warning about taking what they consider extraordinary action on the part of the president, it's also extraordinary to keep the house of representatives from voting on a bill that a majority want to pass and so the speaker if he wants to demonstrate that this is a new era, he can do that by putting that bill on the floor. that would alleviate the need for any executive action. >> it looked like the bill had a majority in current congress. next congress i don't think it's so clear. putting back on your 2016 democratic strategist hat, there was a piece called "revenge of the white male voter." democrats doing badly with white men in this

the senate. what expect the republicans? your probally sees a message votes. will policy bills come to the floor of the senate that will care, affordable care act, put some restrictions on environmental. i don't think they think they can go anywhere -- president obama would veto them. important for the republicans to be able to say what we campaigned on, now that we are done with that. >> back to fans, john from indiana. >> good morning. my question is is there a way to shipping that oil? that oil and texas. why can we not get it from somewhere else. order not the same as a king. >> the president would argue he authority to make determination. essentially, the presidential function of deciding who to prosecute or not. they can make exceptions that they are going not to prosecute. really legislation but extending a power that the present already has. argue those of slippery slope. not know where the power begins and whether as a stop. obama is not spending money he does not have. he's just deciding who to who not to deport. if the oil is toxic that is part of the debate. it is m

the house bill that has been passed. now, the house is very agile, very agile. they can do lots of things quickly that the senate can't do. so the house may decide to take the language of this bill, pass it, call it something else. i understand that. i don't know if that's what they'll do. but there is a clear path for victory on keystone. whoever's name is on the bill does not matter to me as long as it gets done. and i want to say that again. the name on the bill does not matter to me as long as this gets done. and it needs to get done right now. not in january. not in february. not in march. it doesn't need to be combined with anything else. it needs to get done on its own, because it's standing alone. it will go to the president's desk stand-alone and i believe the president will have to make an important decision. i'm hoping he will sign it. but if he doesn't, that's the process. i hope that he will. and i will be urging him to do so, because his administration, his state department, his e.p.a., and his transportation department has urged him to support this piece of legislation for the strength of our econ

the process. as diane said we had a cybersecurity bill on the floor of the senate a couple of years ago. they were -- there were competing factions that didn't allow the bill to generate more than 56 votes, and what she and i did after that, we were involved in the process but actually we were kind of fighting each other on the bill. but we both knew the importance of the issue. so when that bill went down she and i sat down together and said look, this is foolish. we know how important the issue is, we've got to come up with a bill that the bipartisan that you and i can agree on and that we can get the majority of our committee to agree on. it's not easy, as she said come in these times on capitol hill seeing bipartisanship that is somewhat of an anomaly. but diane and i slugged it out. we did make the right kind of compromises on positions without compromising our principles to come together on this bill. it received a 12-3 will coming out of committee. you do see many 12-3 committees coming out of any committee on the senate side these days. that was going into the election too, by the

the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. kelly. mr. kelly: this is a jobs bill, not only in the house of representatives but a job bill in the senate. dr. cassidy's bill is about creating tens of thousands of jobs for hard-working americans. $8 billion private investment that won't cost the american taxpayer one cent. it is about america taking the lead for energy. for six years, this house has passed pieces of legislation that would have created the keystone pipeline. every one of those died in the senate. now, the senate is entertaining this because of one job, tens of thousands of jobs that all these americans who you turned a deaf ear and blind eye to. one job, one senator who has the possibility of losing her seat because of the keystone pipeline. isn't it ironic that we sit here today and try to spin this into something it is not. it is a jobs bill, an american bill that is going to create billions of dollars in revenue. and i ask my friends on the other side, don't look no further than last tuesday. last tuesday was a referendum on incompetency. open your eyes and ears to the american people and let us create jobs and let us r

the senate in a bipartisan effort passed an immigration bill. if the house members have an issue with the enforcement mechanisms in the bill, if liberals in the house have issues with the fact that certain aspects of the bill may go too far than craft a bill that compromises around those points and start from there. you have the solution in your hand. marco rubio took huge hits in the party for leading on this issue in the senate. john mccain and others came to the table. so you have something here. that's my frustration with what the president is proposing to do and what house members are proposing to do. they are talking past each other and quite frankly they are being rather ignorant because the solution is right in front of them. they are playing politics. it is dangerous point for them. >> there's a general understanding, david, that there will be pay back from the gop. ted cruz outlines his plan which include delaying any appropriations process or making it so painful that there will have to be a full or partial government shutdown which is

and last year 68 democrats, republicans and independents, came together to pass a bipartson bill in the senate. it wasn't perfect. it was a compromise. but it reflected common sense. had the house of representatives allowed that kind of bill a simple yes or no vote, it would have passed with support from both parties. and today it would be the law. but for a year and a half now republican leaders in the house have refused to allow that vote. so if you've been in america for more than five years, if you have children that are american citizens or legal residents, if you registered, pass a criminal background check and willing to pay your fair share of taxes, you'll be able to apply to stay in this country temporarily without fear of deportation. you can come out of the shadows and get right with the law. i know some of the critics of this action call it amnesty. well, it's not. amnesty is the immigration system we have today. millions of people who live here without paying their taxes or playing by the rules while politicians use the issue to scare people and whip up votes at election time. the

the children smuggling in june. a bill that boehner thought he had the votes for. that bill was crafted by republicans in the house. it's probably a bill that democrats in the house and the senate could support. that's the bill they should send to the senate and send to the president. i think the president would sign it. it wouldn't get 100% of the democrat votes, but get a number of democrat votes. look, immigration reform, this is something i know about because eight years as governor. both sides will never get 100% of what they want. so, democrats are not going to get the best and fastest road to citizenship. republicans are, you have to concede there is going to have to be some avenue. maybe in two steps where people can get a road to citizenship. the other issues, the issues about high-tech workers and agricultural workers, those are relatively easy. border security, e-verify relatively easy to do. both sides have got to swallow a little bit. the question is, can the tea party do that or more importantly, will boehner just put it on the floor for a vote? >> and risk -- >> now, the president has been criticized for saying, i'll sign it, but, guys, it's only an executive ord

you know, joe, the senate bill that was passed. they knew it would be fixed in the house and you won't pass that today. that's not the way the system works and goes back to the '86 bill, there were certain segments by the senate and house and they came together and worked for it in conference. and the house made it clear they want to do it implemently and they don't want obama care shoved through by the president and speaker and who will be the former majority leader. and a lot of things are in there and they don't like. >> ed, that is why the president issues executive orders to take care of the problem while we wait around for the senate and house. >> he's going to make laws, is that the new role of the president. >> we don't know. wait and see what the executive order is. i know there are rumors and everybody is judging it before they see it. >> he will probably grant legal status to four and half or more illegals and that is the issue. whether he is trying to take the making of laws in his own hand. >> he can't made them legal.

the senate. and they also knew they didn't like some of the thing that came out of the senate like obamacare m bill rejected it. so look, i understand that it takes two to tango. however, i think that it's time now for the president to work with the house and the senate. and i think starting with those 360 bills, i think you're going to progress. >> why should i believe that mitch mcconnell as majority leader in the senate will have any easier a time herding conservative cats, shall we say, than john boehner has had in the house? >> well, look, you say john boehner in the house, but that's where all the public sector came from. i mean, that's where the bills were coming from. again, i go back to what i said before. many of these bills, tavis -- 50 or 60 -- were drafted by democrats. and it came out of the house. almost 2/3 of all the bills sitting on harry reid's desk were passed by a 2/3 majority of the congress. i mean, either -- what i'm saying is true, or i'm lying. i don't think eye lying. >> no, i'm not -- i'm not -- >> what i'm suggesting -- >> i'm not calling you a liar. >> i know you're no

on friday the house approved construction, the senate is expected to vote tomorrow. the bill is backed by louisiana democratic senator who is facing a runoff next month. if the bill passes, will obama veto it? we will speak to naomi klein, author of, "this changes everything: capitalism vs. the climate." >> you look at obama who for three years has been spinning his wheels over the keystone xl pipeline. you just can't bring himself to just say no to this project that now has so many liabilities and isn't necessary to fuel the u.s. economy, but it just seems like the word "no" can't seem to escape his mouth. >> and then "meltdown: terror at the top of the world." we will hear the story of seven american hikers who win on a wilderness adventure the polar bear country in canada's arctic tundra. >> everything changed about polar bears for me. polar bears have become such an icon for global warming, but they are cute and adorable and furry and that is not who they are. they are the top of the food chain. they are predators. as we destroy their habitat, we're destroying this am bel

they never got an opportunity to vote on the immigration bill, and the reason why we never got that, is because the senate bill if they had been allowed to have a vote it would have passed. and overwhelming majority of democrats that would have been a majority in the house and it would have passed. the fact we are at a stalemate, they are no one else to blame the republican leadership in the house, but themselves. they have prevented a bill from being voted on for 18 months. >> when congress didn't do it's job, beyond the legal questions is a bottom line issuer here. will it hit or hurt the u.s. economy. let's put that question to real money. both liberals and conservatives are arguing the benefits and draw backs of the president's anticipated plan. millions of people who currently live in this country who can come out of the shadows. they can pay their taxes. >> there is an argument the white house hopes will sell the people on extending legal working status to millions of undocumented immigrants. lift the threat, and the economy will reap the rewards. and then suddenly you get the minimum wage that's a