then, in 1962, walter heller saw his chance. the economy sputtered in '62, and i pushed hard for a tax cut. the treasury resisted a big tax cut. i wanted a down payment in '62 to make sure we didn't fall into a recession and go ahead in '63. he didn't buy that. in '62, he bought the idea of an across-the-boards tax cut. every dollar released from taxation that is spent or invested will help create new jobs and new salaries. these can create other jobs and salaries and more customers and more growth for an expanding american economy. although kennedy agreed with him, heller had galbraith to contend with. every now and then, his shadow would fall across the white house when he'd come home to report from india. the president would say, "galbraith's been lobbying against your tax cut." i had access to the president and expressed myself with some vigor that if we passed tax cuts, they would become too popular with conservatives, and they would be taken up by conservatives at the cost to the expenditures that were needed on behalf of

it is an american problem, and we're responding on a -- in a bipartisan way, senator heller and i. we put what we thought was a pathway to provide immediate aid to these job seekers and give us enough time to work through these complex issues that many of my colleagues have raised, issues about, well, can we make the program overall more effective, can we incentivize individuals to seek more employment more efficiently, can we integrate training? all of those are important issues, but in the context of a three-month emergency extension, the first thing to do is get the relief to the people and then to sit down conscientiously and deliberately and work on the details. when this concession wasn't enough to break a filibuster, democrats put forth another proposal, again, after consultation with our republican colleagues, and i thank senator heller, senator collins, senator portman, senator coats, many others who consciously and conscientiously provided thoughts, provided input, et cetera. this was not a my way or the highway. this was trying to find a bipartisan pathway, and we're sti

even though the heller decision in 2008 said d.c.'s 30-year ban on handguns was unconstitutional, the city put in all these restrictions to make it so difficult to get a legal gun, that for people like me, it is virtually impossible. i got the paperwork from the police station, and it was 17 steps. it took me four months just to get a legal gun. and obviously all the guys doing crime on the streets, they do not go through the process to get a gun, they just go get it in five minutes. it really illuminates to me how gun control laws, while crime in this city is going up, it is not affecting the criminals, it only affects the law-abiding. and then i saw it spread around a country last year, obviously, president obama made this one of his top priorities of his second term, and former new york city mayor mike bloomberg, the billionaire, has been funding campaigns across the country to get its candidates elected, and that is the reason i wrote this book is because i have seen firsthand that these gun-control laws are not want to do anythin

heller from nevada. >> mr. chairman, thank you. >> glad to have you here. >> good to be back, seeing old colleagues and some old friends that i have on this side of the capital. i want to thank the commander for being here today and everybody that will be testifying and answering questions today. thanks for taking time. it's always a wonderful view to see this crowd. everybody here and your advocacy for issues that are important to all of us. i want to take a moment to acknowledge the veterans who have flown here from my home state, bill bowman and john hanson. are you out there? there we go. any other nevada veterans please raise your hand. they're tremendous advocates. they had poinappointments at my office at 9:30 this morning and they were there at 8:30. if that gives you an idea of how aggressive they are. i appreciate all the work you do and they respepresent our state quite well. i think we can agree there's a lot to be improved upon when it comes to our american veterans. which is why the work that the

senator heller and i have been -- we both come from rural western states. we know the difficulties veterans face. when distances are too far and choices are too few, our legislation would do four things: improve access to mental health services, expand transportation grants, hire and retain more medical professionals in rural areas, and give congress and the v.a. improved tools to improve the quality of rural facilities. first let me start with mental health care. this is crucial. veterans are struggling when the help they need is not available or is very far away. one of my constituents lives in a rural area in northern new mexico. he fought in vietnam and was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. he required therapy, two full days a week. for two years vital care that probably saved his life. the v.a. was there for him and he is grateful. but he had to drive to albuquerque, over thee hours away, to get that essential care. the vemptses in m veteran in mye clear. they need better access to treatment and more mental health options. one size does no

walter heller chaired kennedy's council of economic advisors. kennedy was our first keynesian president. it isn't that others hadn't done some keynesian things, but kennedy did it in an avowed and perceptive way. he was very cautious at first. he finally saw a more liberal approach was needed to stimulate the economy. it took the form of a massive tax cut proposed in i962. this net reduction in tax liabilities of $10 billion will increase the purchasing power of american families and business enterprises in every tax bracket. but john f. kennedy didn't live to see his programs enacted. instead, on that fateful november day, lyndon baines johnson was sworn in as the 36th president of the united states. johnson pursued kennedy's economic proposals and pushed the tax plan through congress. how well did it work? perfectly. business week, which isn't exactly a liberal pro-kennedy publication, said it probably was the most successful tax cut in history. it came out of the textbooks. it went back into the textbooks as the fiscal measure that came close

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that is what the supreme court told us in heller. automatic weapons are not currently illegal to own in this country. part of my law practice is , motiong businesses picture studio armories, and individuals in maintaining the licenses and permits necessary to possess fully automatic weapons. it is a very stringent requirement. it requires approval not only by the federal government but by the state government and by the local law enforcement agency, as well. the interesting query on automatic weapons would be this if machine guns are necessary to protect the life of our president and other vip government officials, why wouldn't they be necessary to protect your life? the secret service uses this as part of their production detail. since the question was asked, is there a constitutional right rather than, is there a self-defense utility in automatic weapons, my answer is no. it would be based on the fact that they are not common and ordinary at this particular time if the question is, what i personally use an automatic weapon? , the a

it's been seven weeks since senator heller and i introduced a bipartisan, short-term plan designed to provide immediate relief. we tried different permutations of extending these benefits with provisions that the other side said they wanted but to this point without success. i must say that i have been -- found not only senator heller but many of my colleagues on that side both thoughtful and willing to contribute exrfnlt senator collins and senator coats and senator portman and so many others who are sincere in trying to get this done. what we have to do get over this 60-vote threshold, at least to provide this immediate relief of three months to our constituents. and, again, the face of this unemployment in this downturn is i think a bit different than in the past. we're hearing and seeing more and more middle aged workers who worked all their lives and for the first time are confronted with unemployment. they've sent out runs of resumes, they've sought job interviews, many times unsuccessfully. they are squeezed because they're trying to support parents at the same time they're try

percent of red respond instead be focused on the candidates' policies on energy including new peter heller. but the polls suggesting more voters more than thirty percent made good judgments because of candidates positions on the economy and employment last night at the most votes among those who chose this as the least. prime minister seems so odd thing was watching to see how voters reacted to these appeals to abandon nuclear power. and you can imagine he's been leaked to the people making those items did not win. he seemed candidate supported by the ruling party's go down to defeat over the past year in a number of local elections ats to remember. many japanese are still against me starting your new reactors ivy and his colleagues are also looking ahead to the twenty twenty olympics an island takes into account organizers have a lot of work to do and the prime minister doesn't want any disagreements between the two levels of government to get him away. i did. and that was an age carols maya call on bed. but a mortar has announced that they will and was making cars in australia by twenty

challenge that is why if the pope had clearly spoken out that no good catholic could follow or embraces heller -- hitler i don't know the impact on germany but a big impact of italy but if the pope were younger and not in a position maybe that blood have been different. babied not the holocaust for the second rule of war could be going to for. >> five like to ask a question. i a understand the italian government did not send the jews away and the catholic government was very much for the of jews. >> no. there is a and narrative there was a church opposition to the racial laws and only one aspect in the fall of 1938 says a converted jews that became catholic should be treated as jews not catholic and could not legally marry a catholic kim the pope was irate because it went against church doctrine if you were baptize you should be considered catholic and able to berry and other catholic but one of the major provisions had given the church's right to decide for church weddings what is a legitimate wedding registered with the state so it went directly against the agreement made with fanfare 1929.

what today are charged to say is heller and his group had to does -- is hitler and his group had decided they would not only going to kill everybody to systematically take all of their history with them. if they do not like it, they would destroy it. and it was not enough he had to kill everybody, you try to make as if they do not exist. and that is worth fighting for. >> of the legacy of civilization. it is an advancement. you can wipe that out. the interesting thing about this film is one more way we come to appreciate in this dialogue what art means to a culture and civilization. and how vital it is with the contribution of art is to the way we are and to lose that. >> if you think about it -- >> and that's why the mission was taken. al there is no other historic wrecker. there are statues and paintings. it was not digital tape. it is our record. you cannot take it away. >> tell me about the relationship between bill's character and bob's character. what does that relationship? >> that was a fun one. >> i see you two guys sitting in a room and wondered how you are going to write it ju

what today are charged to say is heller and his group had to does -- is hitler and his group had decided they would not only going to kill everybody to systematically take all of their history with them. if they do not like it, they would destroy it. and it was not enough he had to kill everybody, you try to make as if they do not exist. and that is worth fighting for. >> the legacy of civilization. it is an advancement. you can wipe that out. the interesting thing about this film is one more way we come to appreciate in this dialogue what art means to a culture and civilization. and how vital it is with the contribution of art is to the way we are and to lose that. >> if you think about it -- >> and that's why the mission was taken. >> there is no other historical wrecker. there are statues and paintings. it was not digital tape. it is our record. you cannot take it away. >> tell me about the relationship between bill's character and bob's character. what does that relationship? >> that was a fun one. >> i see you two guys sitting in a room and wondered how you are going to write it jus

even though the heller decision 30 year ban d.c.'s on handguns was unconstitutional, the city put in all these restrictions to make it so difficult to get a legal gun, that for people like me, it is virtually impossible. i got the paperwork from the police station, and it was 17 steps. it took me four months just to get a legal gun. doingviously all the guys crime on the streets, they do not go through the process to get a gun, they just go get it in five minutes. it really illuminates to me how gun control laws, while crime in this city is going up, it is not affecting the criminals, it only affects the law-abiding. and then i saw it spread around a country last year, obviously, president obama made this one of his top priorities of his second term, and former new york city mayor mike bloomberg, the billionaire, has been funding campaigns across the country to get its candidates elected, and that is the reason i wrote this book is because i have seen firsthand that these gun-control laws are not want to do anything to reduce violenc

. >> senator he heller. >> mr. chairman, thank you and commander thank you very much for your ll testimony and everyy that's here today. it's good to see you here. at 4:30 this afternoon i have secretary shinseki coming into my office and i'm going to ask him a lot of questions. i'm going to ask him obviously the veterans backlog issue and progress, if any, are being made. the issue of lack of communication between my office andny the in reno. and that is another question i'm going to ask and hopefully get a good answer for but there are other questions that you might think that should ask him. are there any questions, if you were talking to secretary shinseki today, what question would that be and i'm going to take notes? and this is your chance toy advocate. >>th well, i wouldn't, presume,s sir to tell you what to ask the secretary although the secretary is an airborne ranger like me. so he is my friend. and he has told me that he will, will reduce the backlog by 2015. but i would defer to members my staff for an

senator kelly ayotte of new hampshire, senator susan collins of maine, dean heller of nevada and senator lisa murkowski of alaska. it did not get the vote of senator rob portman of ohio. portman had previously said he was open to it if there was offsets. that is if the bill didn't increase the deficit. guess what? today's bill had offsets. the $6.4 billion was paid for by pension smoothing which allows companies to bring pensions up to date which means revenue and tax collection. bill would have excluded any complaintant who earned $1 million more in the previous year. this would have added zero to the deficit and senator portman voted against it. today senator portman's office provided a statement which reads in part "with record numbers of long-term unemployed workers, i worked with my colleagues to try to find a common sense way forward to pay for three-month extension of unemergency unemployment benefits while reforms were put in place to better meet the needs of those who can't find a job. unfortunately, majority leader reid went ahead with his own proposal and we ended up back wher

in 2008 and in 2010 the supreme court first of all in a case called the district of columbia versus heller and mcdonald versus chicago, the supreme court upheld with lots of people had e been arguing the last 20 years fothat the second amendment actually does guarantee an individual right to arms. so the first case in 2008 was out of washington, d.c.. the lead plaintiff was dominated and shelly parker, community activist who was laboring under what was the most draconian most stringent gun control measure in the country in washington, d.c. said handguns are banned and other sorts were grandfathered. you cannot have a gun for self defense because you have to keep it in your house disassembled. so no practical arms of defense in washington, d.c.. shelly parker represented by lawyers who were also instrumental in the mcdonald case, shelly parker argued iem under siege. i am an activist who has been threatened by basically young man that she described as funds. she was afraid of them and they came after her at a variety of instances she had a fenced area trying to keep her house safe and they

senator kelly ayotte of new hampshire, senator susan collins of maine, dean heller of nevada and senator lisa murkowski of alaska. it did not get the vote of senator rob portman of ohio. portman had previously said he was open to it if there was offsets. that is if the bill didn't increase the deficit. guess what? today's bill had offsets. the $6.4 billion was paid formy pension smoothing which allows companies to bring pensions up to date which means revenue and tax collection. bill would have excluded any kpla mant who earned $1 million more in the previous year. this would have added zero to the deficit and senator portman voted against it. today senator portman's office provided a statement which reads in part "with record numbers of long-term unemployed workers, i worked with my colleagues to try to find a common sense way forward to pay for three-month extension of unemergency unemployment benefits while reforms were put in place to better meet the needs of those who can't find a job. unfortunately, majority leader reid went ahead with his own proposal and we ended up back where we

i've spoken to my colleague, senator heller and said dean, let's get this done. tell me what is needed to get this done. i now ask unanimous consent, madam president, that i've consulted with the republican leader and now i ask unanimous consent to move to executive session to consider calendar number 629, the nomination of our friend, max baucus, to be ambassador to china. further, with all of the provisions in effect, i ask all time be yielded back with all the provisions on the previous order remaining in effect. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. the clerk will report. the clerk: nomination, department of state, max sieben baucus of montana to be ambassador to the people's republic of china. the presiding officer: the question is on the nomination. is there a sufficient second? there is a sufficient second. the clerk will call the roll. vote: the presiding officer: are there any senators wishing to vote or to change their vote? if not, the ayes are 96, the nays are zero, one announced present. the confirmation of max sieben baucus o

we had one republican senator -- and i thank senator heller -- who voted for cloture last month. and i just hope my colleagues will listen to the people and support this extension. i would like to for my remaining time read to you, madam president, some of the letters that i'm getting and e-mails i'm getting from real people, real people. quote -- this is kristin from chatsworth -- "i am writing to you to please continue to help get an extension on unemployment. after working over 10 years in the clerical field, i was let go, i was on unemployment. i have been constantly searching for jobs, and after rejection after rejection, i have not given up. it's scary to hear my claim will be up after 26 weeks of unemployment. i don't know how i'll make ends meet if they don't extend unemployment. i know i'm not alone on this subject and millions are as scared as i am. i have never been on welfare or any assistance, even being a teenage mother." now, my friends on the other side are always talking about how if a teenager gets pregnant, she should have the child. here's someone who did that

. >> senator heller. >> thank you for your testimony and everybody that's here today. it's good to see you here. at 4:30 this afternoon i have the secretary coming into my office and i'm going to ask him a lot of questions. i'm going to ask him obviously about the veterans' backlog issue and progress if any are being made. the issue of lack of communication between my office and reno will be another question that i'm going to ask and hopefully get a good answer for. but there are other questions that you might think that i should ask him. are there any questions, if you were talking to the secretary today, what question would that be, and i'm going to take notes and this is your chance to advocate. >> i wouldn't presume, sir, to tell you what to ask the secretary, although the secretary is an airborne ranger like me, so he is my friend. he has told me that he will reduce the backlog by 2015, put i would defer to members of my staff for any additional information they might want to share. >> love to hear from them. yes. >>you. we do believe that the va is making progres

moran and heller are republicans voting yes. why didn't other republicans supported? >> there were number a number of things that a lot of them wanted to stick those budget caps in the budget law. a number of them don't like the bill in general and they thought it was an opportunity to kind of put it on the shelf. a number of republicans have expressed concern about expanding va health care and that would flood an already overburdened system and a lot of them express concerns with the way senators sanders wanted to pay for the bill. there were a number of issues not just the mandatory number. >> one of the headline grabbing issues with the amendment on iran. what was that all about? >> well basically what republicans have been circling the wagon on in the last few days is an amendment, substitute amendment i richard burr who is a the ranking member on the veterans affairs committee and as i said it's a substitute amendment that would narrow some of the benefit revisions and a provision that had another round of iran sanctions which is more or less what was proposed by

they say ewing called on keifer brown, a vt grauduate, and michael heller to help her cover up the crime. >> when a crime happens and they didn't know it was going to happen, they panic. people reach out to friends and associates to help them. >> reporter: none of the students has entered a plea. they did not return requests for comment. for "good morning america," mara schiavocampo, abc news, new york. >> so sad. >>> another check of the weather. are we putting you to work, ginger? >> yes, i've got my shovel and i got to tell you, i'm bending from the knees, of course. this is that wet, heavy snow. i'm going help clean up times square. we need it. we're getting an inch, maybe two an hour. we'll see a couple more before this changes over. i want to take you what is happening in philadelphia. almost 9 inches reported there already. now mixing over to a little sleet, some fog, some mist. a mess there. roadways and of course, flights and cancellations. wanted to show you the radar. what is happening at this moment. why i think it will change over. washington, d.c., philadelphia, but look at

amenable to, i think, just about everybody, certainly those people that were originally on the bill, heller, murkowski, collins. it's my understanding they accept that. i hope more do. we need five republican votes. republicans have complained after that first vote they wouldn't vote on extension of unemployment insurance without reforms to the program so we did that also. we talk about the 20 relevant amendments which did he they didn't agree to. they refused every reasonable offer to move forward on this legislation. i'm beginning to believe there is nothing to get republicans to say yes, with the exception of a few reasonable republicans that have taken the human toll into consideration, republicans simply don't want to extend these benefits. their obstruction has already cost the nation $2.2 billion during the last five weeks, a body blow to small business around the country. every week they delay, another 73,000 americans lose these crucial benefits, benefits that help them keep food on the table and a roof over their heads. i shared a story very, very recently of a 57-year-old woman w

the vote on the underlying measure the short term extension three month extension unpaid and senator heller joined us and i thank you for that. still not the significant number of republican colleagues necessary. not only to move the measure forward but also do the right thing. and we're here today, mr. president, we've had another round of extensive discussions and consultations and now about to pay for a three month expertise tension of the unemployment benefits. which is fully paid for. i will point out in february the extension will go forward until march. we're reaching the point ironically we might have more receipt to active payment than perspective payment. that's why we have to move. we have to move today. in order to consciously and thoughtfully and cooperatively and collaboratively work with our colleagues. we have continually would have agreed to make concessions that i used to think it was the nature of flil comprise. principle complil comprise. and we've tried. now we have a three month bill paid for technique called pension -- which we have enacted on a bipartisan basis the f

provide much better educational benefits, and i am very pleased to have a bipartisan sponsor, senator heller of nevada, because there is nothing about helping our veterans that should be a partisan issue. there is nothing about addressing the needs of our gold star game families who have losa member of the f.t.a. famil famit that should be a partisan issue. a veteran talked to me in 2008 right before came to this chamber about this issue of education benefits for the children and for the spouses. because when often the primary wage earner for a family is struck down in battle, the rest of the family needs a lot of help regaining their feet. and that means educational opportunities for the children, but let's not forget that the spouse who has to take over major financial responsibilities also needs educational benefits. well, shortly before i came here, the post-9/11 g.i. bill went into effect, creating the machine gunnery sergeant frye scholarship. that scholarship fulfilled the vision that robert thornhill and i talked to, and it evening went further to include a book stipend. but it d.h.s

moran and heller and republicans voting yes. why did republicans supported? >> there were a number of things. a lot of them didn't like the budget caps in the budget law and a number of them didn't like bill in general and just thought it was an opportunity to two kind of put it on the shelf. a number of republicans have expressed concern about expanding va health care in an already overburdened system. they express concern with the way senator sanders wanted to pay for the bills so there were a number of issues not just the mandatory number number. >> one of the headline grabbing issues was the amendment on iran. what was that all about? >> well basically republicans have been circling the wagon in the last few days on a substitute amendment by a ranking member on the veterans affairs committee and as i said it's a substitute amendment that would narrow some of the benefit provisions but in addition it had another round of iran sanctions which is more or less what was proposed by senators menendez and kirk in the last couple of months. again their contention

spoken about the need to extend federal unemployment insurance and i thank senator jack reed and dean heller for their bipartisan leadership on this issue. unemployment insurance provides a critical life line. workers pay into the program so it will be there when they are looking for work. unemployment insurance helps families pay the mortgage or rent and put gas in the 257bg. federal support for unemployment insurance is crucial for those americans who exhaust their state funded benefits and are still looking for work. throughout my time as the senate chair of the joint coming committee, i've focused on the continuing problem of long-term unemployment. last month i issued a joint economic committee report that makes the clear economic case for extending federal support for unemployment insurance which keeps those americans afloat, those americans who are continuing to search for work. the long-term unemployment rate now stands at 2.5%, nearly twice as high as when these benefits expired during the last recession. we already know the consequences of allowing the federal benefits to expire ar

there has been a republican, dean heller, who has been working on an extension of unemployment benefits. he is from nevada, which has a high unemployment rate. anything that involves immigration at this point, which is another contentious issue, is probably not going to fly, and the democrats position is unemployment insurance benefits should be extended no matter what. they are willing to talk about >> the senate will take up that house passed debt limit bill in just over a half-hour, about 1:45 eastern. follow that on c-span2. the house is out legislatively until tuesday, february 28. the democrats begin their issues retreat later this afternoon on maryland's eastern shore. minority leader, nancy pelosi, will brief reporters about that gathering. we'll have it for you live at 6:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span. news from washington today that israeli prime minister, bedgemin netanyahu, plans to visit the white house next month. the associated press says the white house announced the march 3 visit and would discuss middle east peace, iran's nuclear program, and other regional issues. the

what other discussions right now with senator collins, senator reed of rhode island, senator heller, how likely are you going to get a proposed deal and what are you looking at to pay for that? >> it is doable. i'm one of the republicans who voted to have a debate. we have a proposal that was rejected. the majority leader had his own proposal. we didn't get to have a debate on those issues, but the reality is we are pretty close. it's a three-month extension and during that time we want to do precisely what the president said last night, reform the unemployment insurance program for long-term unemployed. >> what is the pay-for. >> and we want to pay for it. if you are not paying for it, you you increase the debt and deficit. if you can't pay for it, you definitely should. i have ideas including stopping the double dipping between unemployment insurance and social security disability. there are lots of waste and fraud and other issues we could go after. the democrats are talking about smoothing pension contributions. there are a number of -- >> are you ok with it? >> i heard about it

last june senator heller of nevada and i introduced the veterans benefits claims faster filing act, which requires the secretary of veterans affairs to ensure that every veteran is informed of the vast differences in times for processing compensation claims, when filing a fully developed claim versus a nonfully developed paper claim. it takes o, on average, 113 days for veterans to receive a final disability rating if they file a claim online. compare that to over a year if they file a nonfully developed paper claim. filing claims online through the fully developed claims program accelerates turnaround times and makes processing more efficient. doing so also provides an additional year of retroactive benefits as an incentive to veterans who file a fully developed claim. the faster filing act and other legislative efforts represent a collective effort to reduce the backlog and ensure that our veterans receive the benefits that they've earned. i'm also proud to have cosponsored legislation introduced by my colleague from alaska, senator begich, to provide advanced appropriations for all --

lindsey heller. good morning. the story is so unsettling, yet we continue to hear about citation upon citation and institutions like this continuing to be able to be run. and these kids who are allegedly drugged. what red flags should we be looking for? >> well, the first thing when parents are looking for a daycare setting, absolutely be looking for a daycare that is licensed. that is the most important because they will be following policies and procedures in place to protect your children. >> okay. this one was indeed not. what about ratio of adult to child? how important is that? >> extremely important. with children, with babies, it's four to one. with older children, ten to one. but paying attention to going into the daycare, asking them to see their license, making sure it's appropriate license for 9 9 -- the setting. the ratio. your children will be in a much safer, more developmentally appropriate environment if the ratios are correct. >> according to the social services administration, she had been cited

there has been a republican, dean heller, who has been working on an extension of unemployment benefits. he is from nevada, which has a high unemployment rate. anything that involves immigration at this point, which is another contentious issue, is probably not going to fly, and the democrats position is unemployment insurance benefits should be extended no matter what. they are willing to talk about offsets, but not the ones a republican so far have put forward. host: russell berman, thank you for joining us. guest: july. host: immigration is our topic. next,o luis gutierrez -- we will talk to luis gutierrez after a news break from c-span radio. >> political news this hour -- and republican city councilman has been elected mayor of san diego, replacing bob filner, who resigned after sexual harassment allegations. kevin falcon will be the only republican. largestes california's city with a republican mayor. the president signed an executive order raising minimum wage from seven -- $7.25 an hour, $210.10 an hour. anprevents -- to $10.10 hour. a cbs news correspondent tweets the president

. >> senator heller? >> thanks for listening. thanks for being here. being patient. and taking our questions. i know as a former chair for the san francisco federal reserve you have a pretty good understanding of the state of nevada. and its current economic conditions. it's been over five years now that since we've had this economic collapse. i want to take a quote from the president of the st. louis reserve federal reserve that recently said that we are a lot closer to a normal economy than we've been in a long time and i would stress that i can tell you right now nevada's nowhere close to a normal economy. maybe some parts of this country are having recovery but nevada's unemployment is second highest in the nation and many homeowners are still under water. >> i know that. >> i guess the question is, do you have the struggle that we are currently experiencing, is this a new normal according to the president of the -- president of the st. louis federal reserve or a new economic reality? >> well, i mean, as you know, senator nevada has one of the hardest hit. it had

in the cross fire sharon brown, democrat of ohio and dean heller. tonight on cross fire. president obama promised he was going to put an end to all brinksmanship and foolishness last fall when the same extremist tried the same stunt. as of today the tea party fever is officially broken. thank you president obama. >> i don't know why you are so happy. with the debt ceiling off the table we can go right back to talking about obamacare. >> what's that? i love it. i tell you what, this president has defamed the tea party. >> in the crossfire two senators democrat sharon brown of ohio and republican dean heller of nevada. i'll give the first one to you since you are in such a good mood today. >> we're excited because we actually have the threat to america's full faith in credit removed except your colleague, ted cruz has announced he is going to filibuster. are you going to join with ted cruz in filibustering the proposal. >> i wasn't aware he was going to filibuster. i wouldn't be surprised. you know, they passed in the house. they couldn't get the 218 votes. said she would g