joining me now are congress woman jan schakowsky, democrat of illinois, and salon.com's joan walsh. thank you both for being here. >> thank you, reverend al. >> congresswoman, your republican colleagues have tried everything to discredit the health care law. will they start getting pushback from constituents who are benefitting from it? >> oh, i think there's no question. the good news stories are starting to roll out. as you said, people who have been denied health care perhaps most of their life are finally getting enrolled. by the way, i enrolled today. it was simple. i have my plan now as a person on the health care exchange. and i had no trouble getting on the website. and so now that the website is getting fixed, the republicans are looking for something else as part of their more than three and a half year campaign against obama care. but the sailing is going to get much rougher for them now that people are actually seeing the benefits. >> now, joan, every now and then, we hear, you know, a republican say they should root for the health care law to fail. some level of, you kn

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. >>> joining me house democrats chief deputy whip, illinois congresswoman jan schakowsky. thanks for being here. this is a major bipartisan deal, the president calling it a good first step. are you satisfied with this deal or should democrats have held out for the extension of the unemployment benefits. this is for 1.3 million workers who stand to lose them in two weeks. we saw congresswoman pelosi and her feelings about this. how do you feel? >> i can't begin to tell you how disturbed i am that 1.3 million families are going to lose what is probably the sole source of income for their families right now three days after comes. we could easily add that to the agreement or do it separately. my understanding is there's still discussion about extending benefits for the doctors, which i agree with, it's called the sgr, to make sure we do the doc fix and that they get their money. if we do that, there's no excuse for not also looking at those unemployed families and their unemployment benefits. so i am very upset with that portion of it. as far as the rest of the deal, you hear

schakowsky about trade but. what's what's the situation. where the wonderful news is just last month one hundred fifty one house democrats and one letter thirty republicans and another fifteen democrats now they're all basically sent the boss to signal they announce surprise no bamma in the face of his trying to rush to finish the trans-pacific partnership the t p p which you can think of as sort of nafta answer. steroids with the asia pacific region in the face of that agreement being raj president obama knowing there are a lot of outrageous things in t.p. pay the investor off shoring and scientists but also abandoned by america all kinds of limitations on financial regulation etc those members of congress are not going to just roll over so president obama has us what's called fast track trade authority it would take away congress's constitutional control over trade the founders very wisely put in there as a check and balance and all of those members of congress one hundred ninety in total said. not so fast and

schakowsky about trade but. what's what's the situation. where the wonderful news is just last month one hundred fifty one house democrats in one letter thirty republicans and another. fifteen democrats now they're all basically sent the boss to signal they announce to president obama in the face of his trying to rush to finish the trans-pacific partnership the t p p which you can think of as sort of nafta on steroids with the asia pacific region in the face of that agreement being raj president obama knowing there are a lot of outrageous things in t.p. pay the investor off shoring and scientists but also abandoned by america all kinds of limitations on financial regulation etc those members of congress are not going to just roll over so president obama has asked what's called fast track trade authority it would take away congress's constitutional control over trade the founders very wisely put in there as a check and balance and all of those members of congress one hundred ninety in total said. not so fast and

to my good friend, jan schakowsky, a bot is a computer program that uses artificial intelligence and preprogrammed instructions to play not just poker or games of chance but all kinds of things on the internet. they are not good things in my opinion. that's what a bot is. i want to welcome some former members out in the audience. jon porter of nevada. former chairman of the ag committee from california, i think richard pombo is out there . so we welcome him back to congress. i want to tell the committee, mr. chairman, that god must be for this bill because i got up enis, ning at 4:00 and texas, outside of dallas, braved icy roads and 20 degree temperatures to get to dfw airport when my good friends at american airlines left exactly on time and god put a 200 miles per hour tailwind behind the plane. i got here an hour early. that tells me that god is for this bill. that's my opinion. mr. chairman, i first want to thank you for holding this hearing, earn chairman upton, and ms. schakowsky and mr. waxman for agreeing to do t i want to thank our witnesses. this is a serious issue that ha