eleven per cent so why can't congress build a bridge and get over it to talk more about this is a wilmer leon political science professor at howard university hi wilmer so these are these are a bipartisan issues but still no consensus why not. well i think there are a number of reasons one of course is this ideological debate that we find ourselves locked in you have libertarians and you have conservatives who have taken this we're not going to support any deficit spending approach to this to solving problems that they want to the least amount of government is possible then of course you have individual such as a senate minority leader mitch mcconnell who says under my primary objective is to see to it that president obama is a one term president. so you have this they are doing everything in their power to see to it that president obama doesn't win reelection even if it means not operating in the best interest of the american people so it sounds well merit laggy you think that will what's driving congress today is politics their decisions are politically motivated their their decisions are n