john boehner raised this the other day in his speech. it is a provision that requires small businesses to report on payments they made exceeding $600. we had a vote in the house to repeal it. democrats proposed -- proposed repealing that provision. we pay for that by closing down loopholes. when faced with the decision, do you help small businesses by getting rid of what everyone agrees is an onerous provision or, again, supporting incentives to shift american jobs overseas, they voted to protect those overseas corporate profits. it was interesting to hear john boehner raise that issue, since, to a person, his colleagues voted against the opportunity to repeal 1099. >> a question? >> political report. this is getting to be this season where we will start seeing a lot of ads from the other side, and the committee has reserved at time in over 60 districts so far. how coldblooded are you willing to be about strategy, and are you open at all over the course ofhe next month to pooling resources from races beyonce bifurcating and allocating th

john boehner raised this the other day in his speech. it is a provision that requires small businesses to report on payments they made exceeding $600. we had a vote in the house to repeal it. democrats proposed -- proposed repealing that provision. we pay for that by closing down loopholes. when faced with the decision, do you help small businesses by getting rid of what everyone agrees is an onerous provision or, again, supporting incentives to shift american jobs overseas, they voted to protect those overseas corporate profits. it was interesting to hear john boehner raise that issue, since, to a person, his colleagues voted against the opportunity to repeal 1099. >> a question? >> political report. this is getting to be this season where we will start seeing a lot of ads from the other side, and the committee has reserved at time in over 60 districts so far. how coldblooded are you willing to be about strategy, and are you open at all over the course of the next month to pooling resources from races beyonce bifurcating and allocating

john boehner raised this the other day in his speech. it is a provision that requires small businesses to report on payments they made exceeding $600. we had a vote in the house to repeal it. democrats proposed -- proposed repealing that provision. we pay for that by closing down loopholes. when faced with the decision, do you help small businesses by getting rid of what everyone agrees is an onerous provision or, again, supporting incentives to shift american jobs overseas, they voted to protect those overseas corporate profits. it was interesting to hear john boehner raise that issue, since, to a person, his colleagues voted against the opportunity to repeal 1099. >> a question? >> political report. this is getting to be this season where we will start seeing a lot of ads from the other side, and the committee has reserved at time in over 60 districts so far. how coldblooded are you willing to be about strategy, and are you open at all over the course of the next month to pooling resources from races beyonce bifurcating and allocating

leader john boehner. and here in studio, senate leader mitch mcconnell. gentlemen, welcome back to "fox news sunday." >> glad to be here. >> good morning. >> chris: senator mcconnell, the latest fox news opinion dynamics poll now shows that republicans have an 11-point lead when it comes to the generic ballot question, congressional ballot question: who are you going to vote for in your district? it was 11 points. recently, up from four points two weeks ago. aren't expectations for republicans so high now if you don't regain control of the house or the senate, the democrats will be able to spin this as a victory for them? >> i'd love to have the election tomorrow, but obviously it's not tomorrow. your point is well-made. i think one of the things we need to do is remember that there is still three months to go. if the election were today, we'd certainly have a good day. but it's a long way until november. they have a lot of money. they outspent us for the last three cycles and i expect them to do it again. they're not going to go down easily. >> chris: co

maybe john boehner is, too. the speech did not indicate to many thoughts about the future. it was much more centered upon of polarized political saturation. -- political situation. many are hopeful that if we have a republican majority, we will also have some ideas and programs and yet to articulate them. i will -- we will continue to work with senator mcconnell to do that. >> i am wondering if you heard from mitch daniels after publicly encouraging him to go in that direction. >> i had a good conversation with him in indiana just a week or so ago. he has made no commitment. this will not be the time in which we may get announcement that he will need to make at some point. i think he would be an outstanding candidate and a great president, but he will have to make that decision himself. >> senator, thank you for your time. we have just finished a wide- ranging conversation with the lead republican on foreign affairs, senator dick lugar. you mentioned this is a big week for foreign policy issues. i wonder if what you heard from the senator recapped the middle east peace proc

john bamir -- i like john -- john boehner, i like john. i like a lot of republicans. i really do. i strongly disagree with them. john boehner is a decent guy, the leader of the house republicans. he said our efforts to regulate the excess of wall street and the financial industry as we attempted to hold them accountable -- he said it was akin to using a nuclear weapon to kill an ant. guess what? that is a pretty big damn ant. it ate up about 8 million jobs. [applause] look, folks. mitch mcconnell -- i have worked with him for years. we both did eulogies for a mutual friend of ours -- ted stevens -- just two good days ago. i like mitch. called for the health care bill to be -- called for the health care bill to be repealed and replaced. he does not want to have a child be covered without exceptional -- additional cost. he wants to repeal the right of a parent to keep a 19-year-old or 20-year-old college kid on their insurance plan. he wants to repeal a 30% tax cut that will kick in for small businesses who have the decency to provide healthcare for their employees. he wants to repe

>> congressman john boehner has tried to make the case that this is nancy pelosi's biggest failure. after those scandals, she came in and said, we are going to drain the swamp. the question is whether this is playing out outside the beltway. republicans are not sure this has political resonance as deadly -- as does the economy. it is no help to democrats. the welcome back from august recess and deal with the rental and waters -- rangel and waters issues. it will distract from any momentum heading into the polls. the party will be divided. the news coverage will be focused. the one session where the house came back to pass that bill -- $26 billion -- what they say will save teachers' jobs. instead, charlie rangel went to the floor and defended himself against these charges. the party was responding to that as well. they do not want to have to deal with this destruction. >> that has been a real problem for democrats all year. going into the late spring, democrats have been imploring the white house to stay focused on jobs. that has to be the message. then there was the huge oil spill.

>> majority -- minority leader, john boehner is trying to make a big issue. nancy pelosi said we are going to drain the swamp. whether this is playing outside the beltway and republicans aren't so sure this has much as political ressonance as the economy and debt does. it is no help to democrats. they will come back and deal with the rangel issue and the waters' issue head on, potentially a trial in september. it will distract from everything they are trying to do to create any sort of momentum heading into the polls. the party will be divided. the news coverage will be focused on it. the one-day session that the house came back to pass a bill, $26 billion to what they said would save teachers' jobs, charlie rangel went to the floor and defended his -- himself against these charges and the party was forced to respond to that instead. and this is a distraction they don't want to deal with. >> that has been the real problem for democrats all year. late spring, democrats had been imploring the white house stay focused on jobs, jobs, jobs and then the huge oil sp

john boehner said nothing about that. so basically what he saids with a political message. you don't like what the obama folks are doing. we won't do that stuff. that was a political speech. i expected a little economic thought going into the speech, whether it is fiscal conservatism, somethingment you but i would say sub stand-- . >> woodruff: how did you read it. >> it was an elevation of vagueness and generality to high politics, any time a politician somebody like john boehner says things like we're going to have to make tough choices, that tells you what and never tells what you tough choices might be, ought to be that is the kind of speech it was. he came out strongly for tax cuts. and against regulation of business. buts there what no real hook upon which to hang any kind of lipp lepp. >> the republicans are doing so great right now, they figure why mess with the script and that was the speech. >> woodruff: we do have primarys to talk about. five states voted this week. it's interesting, david, in two states, you have the conservative, more conservative republican ca

it's apples and oranges, something that john boehner was talking about. here in washington, d.c. they talk about tax cuts the same they talk about spending increases as though the government owned all of the money. they say, are they paid for? i think deciding on a government spending increase is very different on whether or not we allow the american people to keep more of their hard-earned tax dollars. as john boehner just said the most important thing right now is to get this economy moving again, to create jobs, and to get federal spending under control. >> this is the only reason that democrats in my party have a fighting chance in the fall of holding majorities in the house and senate. mike and i are friends, but this argument is not credible. you can't have a, b, c and d and say you don't need them. you have to cut taxes and finding spending cuts. i think we ought to reform long-term entitlement spending in the country. you can't say you're for tax cuts and spending discipline and bringing down the debt. everyone needs an adult conversation here, and that's not happening. w

. >>> republican minority john boehner appeared saying more americans are listening to their message. >> i think it's clear that the american people are tired of job killing agenda in washington, d.c., they want the spending spree to stop. they want to make sure that taxes are not intermediate. >> he says republicans are having a good year but there is much more work that needs to be done before the election. >> a motorist working on his car sparked a fire the so-called crown fire. it's now 80% contained and crews hope to have it surrounded by tomorrow night. cooler temperatures helped fire crews help get the upper hand. it charred 22 square miles of brush and destroyed four homes. crews point out the damage could have been much worse if the homes in the neighborhood nearby were not equipped with fire resistant roofs. >> environmental activists are spending seven days backpacking across yosemite national park in an effort to restore hetch-hetchy valley. the group wants to restore yosemite's hetch-hetchy valley before the way it was in 1923. >> the restoration of hetch-hetchy would mea

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citizens. >> that was house minority leader john boehner on "meet the press" over the weekend talking about the idea of repealing or perhaps repealing the 14th amendment to the u.s. constitution. an idea supported by mitch mcconnell, john mccain from arizona has said we need to look at this. republicans are saying they are not out and out saying at this point we should repeal it, but they want to look at it. they're planning to schedule hearings on whether or not this should happen. tracie potts, nbc bay area news. >>> a day of remembrance in japan. the city of nagasaki held a moment of silence at 11:02 this morning to mark the 65th anniversary of the atomic bomb attack. a scheduling conflict prevented the u.s. ambassador from japto from attending the ceremony. >>> a new study challenges prior research suggesting full-time working mothers are harping their child's development. researchers at columbia university found infants raised by mothers with full-time jobs did score slightly lower on cognitive tests, but these children had other advantages. working mothers had higher income and

minority leader john boehner said there enough safety practices in place to lift the ban. >> there clearly was live -- mistake made with regard to this well but wee risking 100,000 jobs in the gulf because of the motorium. >> and the vital tourism history has taken hit. president obama plans to do his rt, taking his family to florida next week for a vacation. abc news, the white house. >> carolyn: a new fid poll reveals marijuana is already deeply woven into society in california. th news as voters plan to decide in november whether to galize the drug for recreational use. e poll showed 42% of adults say they use marijuana to relieve pain or treat a medical condition. 39% were recreatial users. 60% said the drug helps them to sleep or relax. 24 says it stimulatescraft different. and 47% of voters said they used marijua at least once. >> alan: basketball, anyone? how the president spent his sunday. >> carolyn: small plane lands upside down. the couple inside walks away unhurt. >> leigh: it has be another kind of fall-like day across the bay area, with low clouds and fog, mist and drizzle. a

think about what would happen in this country if john boehner was making the decisions. the decisions about what was covered. or mitch mcconnell. that is how it would shake out. we have had these problems over the years where high-profile exhibits cannot -- cannot -- came up with any number of barriers between the funding and the practitioners. you will have greater government control over content. the issue that i wanted to address, sandy, you talked about being connected to the diversity. ron, you talked about the current toxic atmosphere. you'll mentioned -- several of you have mentioned that quality journalism is happening in this country. there is no question about that. the global post and in international areas, there is quality journalism. the question to me is not whether there can be quality journalism, but how as the news media becomes increasingly atomized around the country, how can anyone get a comprehensive view of the world? it used to be that we could pick up the chronicle and hope to find at least as close to a comprehensive review as possible. no longe

bachmann and palin and you have a dull group of leaders, mitch mcconnell and john boehner. people wouldn't recognize them on the subway. [laughter] chris: does that hurt the republican party to have dull leaders? >> there is a front stage-badge stage scenario where they don't necessarily have the strongest voices for television and for easy communication, kind of the b team is moving up who really communicate well. if you look at mitch mcconnell, his strength is organizing the party and the message. that has its value and not as easy. chris: how does that square with the tea party crowd who were excited? maybe it works together? >> there is energy and pragmatism and when they get people excited and have a strategy. chris: then comes the tricky problemyimarr those two. how do you take people with the high numbers like palin and say, we are going to run one of esthe dullsville candidates next time? >> it won't be dullsville if the republicans are lucky. mitch mcconnell is invisible because his job is a demolition expert. the guy blowing up the bridge doesn't want to be on tv.

john boehner is a decent guy. he said that our efforts to regulate the excesses' of wall street and the financial industry was holding wall street accountable. he said this was akin to using a nuclear weapon to kill an ant. just what, that is a pretty big dam and, if a up about 8 million jobs. -- guess what, that is a pretty big damn ant, it ate up about 8 million jobs. mitch mcconnell, we have worked together for years. we just eulogized ted stevens a few days ago. i like him. he calls for the health care bill to be "repealed and replaced." he wants to repeal the protections for parents of diabetes. he wants to repeal the right of a parent who keep their children on their insurance plan wall their children are in college. he would like to repeal a tax cut that would kick in soon for small businesses who will put an end to provide health care for their employees. he would like to repeal the preventive care for seniors to keep them from being more sick. he wants to replace this with the tyranny of the insurance com

. >> congressman john boehner says we are broken we do not have money to bail out states. is there a new normal? the former head of omb under bill clinton says there is, and it means recoveries are much slower. >> if you go back to the early 1980's during the recession of president reagan -- the recession that president reagan was dealing with, there was a long lag before jobs came back. with each recession, the same thing happened. economists believe that the(+ distances are becoming more efficient. they don't hire back as quickly as they did before. there is also a normal because we have to remember the way we worked before the recession. we brought in a bubble, a state economy. in somewhat -- we were in a bubble, a fake economy. in some ways we cannot go back to that because we would be added trouble ahead. >> maybe for the first time i will disagree with something that jean cummings said. -- jeanne cummings said. we went through 25 years of uninterrupted low inflation and low unemployment. it was unprecedented. if the new normal of law or tyson's budget -- new normal l

so after all this build-up and hype, all we know is what john boehner and his republican colleagues are against. i know what they're against. what i don't know, other than the tax cut where the top 2% of the tax payers in america, i don't know what they're for. >> sreenivasan: in other political news, voters went to the polls in five states for primaries and runoffs. in arizona and alaska, incumbent republican senators john mccain and lisa murkowski were expected to win their party's nomination against opponents who are backed by the tea party. and in florida, congressman kendrick meek battled real estate mogul jeff greene for the democratic senate nomination. a former employee of the u.s. department of agriculture said she will not return to work there. shirley sherrod resigned last month after video surfaced of her saying she initially declined to help a white farmer. agriculture secretary tom vilsack had asked for her resignation before learning her comments were taken out of context. today in washington, sherrod said she may do some consulting work on racial issues for the departmen

house minority leader john boehner called on the president to get busy fixing the economy, starting at the white house: >> president obama should ask for-- and accept-- the resignations of the remaining members of his economic team, starting with secretary geithner and larry summers, the head of the national economic council. >> susie: boehner also wants the president to veto future tax hikes, keep the bush tax cuts in place, and an immediate 25% cut in domestic discretionary spending. vice president joe biden quickly fired back, saying the congressman is nostalgic for bush-era political rhetoric. and, worries about the stalling u.s. economy pushed down oil prices. in new york trading, october futures fell 2% to $71.63 a barrel. >> tom: still ahead, tonight's "word on the street" is "security." james rogers of thestreet.com joins us for a look at some under-the-radar computer security stocks. >> susie: russia's economy is picking up and recovering from the global financial crisis. as we continue our series on investing in the so-called brics-- brazil, russia, india and china-- tonight

. >>> house minority leader john boehner is asking presint obama he to ask for the resignation of his economic team. he said the president's policies and his people have failed to turn the economy around. the house's top republican wants the president to support an extension of the bush tax cuts which he believes can help get businesses hiring again. >> right now america's employers were brave to invest in an economthat's slowed by stimulus spending and ham strung by uncertainty and the prospect of highe taxes, strict rules, more regulions has employers sitting on their hands. >> the administration fired back at boehner claiming he wants to return to the policies that created the wst economic downturnince the great depression. >> there are millio upon millions of americs who saw their savings, that i paychecks shrink, lost their jobs, their homes. mr. boehner is nostalgic for those good ole days, but the american people are not. >> and another bleak economic report today. the national association of realtors says sales of previously owned homes in ju fell more than 27% to the lowes le

john boehner is the house republican leader. and he gave a big speech on what he would do if he were speaker of the house, should republicans get control of the house in november. and here's what he had to say about the president's economic team. >> president obama should ask for and accept the resignations of the remaining members of his economic team starting with secretary geithner and larry somers, the head of the national economic council. >> reporter: well, vice president biden served as the surrogate for the obama administration, and here's what he said in response to boehner's call. >> they took a $237 billion operating surplus, inherited from the clinton administration, and left us with a $1.3 trillion deficit. and in the process, quadrupling the national debt, all before we literally turned on the lights in the west wing. >> now, it doesn't take a polling expert to tell you the economy is the number one issue for pretty much every american out there. i had one observer tell me, if 2008 was the hope election, 2010 may b

before the president's comments, house minority leader john boehner again called for the president to fire his economic team. boehner also said keeping the bush tax cuts would help the nation's small businesses create jobs. >> susie: still ahead, it's been five years since hurricane katrina devastated new orleans. we talk economic revival with tulane university's peter ricchiuti. >> tom: hewlett-packard wants to own more of its stock. h.p.'s board today boosted its share buyback program by $10 billion. the move comes on the heels of a 17% slide in h.p.'s share price since the company's c.e.o. resigned abruptly three weeks ago. h.p.'s interim c.e.o. says about a third of that buyback will come during the company's fiscal fourth quarter, which ends october 31. investors appeared to like the plan. h.p. shares rose 56 cents, or 1.5%, to $38.56. its threat to ban blackberry >> susie: india is postponing its threat to ban blackberry services for at least 60 days. that's because research in motion, maker of the popular smartphones, agreed to give india access to encrypted data. the country w

and today house republican leader john boehner said it's time to think about moving the retirement age to 70. republican leaders are also making an election year push for immigration reform, calling for changes to the constitution's 14th amendment. as chief legal correspondent jan crawford explains, it could alter who is allowed to call themselves a u.s. citizen. >> reporter: for most, the path to citizenship is long and hard, with years of waiting and work to say their country is america. but there is another route to citizenship for the next generation of immigrants. they can enter the country illegally, or fly in on a tourist visa to have a baby. >> if someone is here illegally and they have a child, that child is automatically granted u.s. citizenship. >> reporter: senator lindsay graham and other republican leaders want to challenge that by changing the 14th amendment of the constitution so babies born to foreigners in the united states are not automatically granted citizenship. >> there are schemes along the border. pay $2,500 to $5,000. they will sneak you across the border. the

minority leader john boehner said sunday it has to be an option as congress considers how to overhaul the social security program. more americans filed for social security last year than ever before, and the program is facing its first ever shortfall this year. >>> and "the other guys" were the top draw at the movies. the buddy cop parody starring will ferrell and mark wahlberg took in more than $35 million to win the weekend box office. that pushed leonardo dicaprio's "inception" to second place. after three weeks on top. the dream thriller has racked up some $230 million in ticket sales so far. emily, i would like to see either one of those movies. however, all the movies i get to see lately are animated, g-rated, whatever my 5-year-old wants to see, but those are fun, too. >> i know. jack is so cute. all right, ashley morrison here in new york, thank you. >>> just ahead on the morning news -- remembering oscar winning actress, patricia neal. >>> caught on tape. a house in minnesota proves no match for a tornado which tears it to shreds. tears it to shreds. ♪ gonna meet me at the

host: john boehner, minority leader in the house, was asked about ethics and what is happening on capitol here -- have -- capitol hill and this is what he had to say. >> talk about draining the swamp -- you heard me say this that i expect in the american people expect the highest ethical standards from their members of congress. nancy pelosi said four years ago that it was time to drain the swamp. and i cannot believe it has taken some two years to investigate the charlie rangel case. but the fact is, she has not kept her promise. the swamp is alive and well. host: jamie on the democratic line in a lexington, kentucky, what issue will impact your vote? caller: integrity. host: ok. why? caller: i rather be -- runner for congress be honest regardless of how painful it might be. i think that is what the american people lack today. that is why i support barack obama. he did say it would take a long time to change how washington does business. he has gone against the lobbyists. the businessmen are kind of angry at him. and i think because people need to wake up and see what our president is tr

all this came amid-an extraordinaryy finger pointing exchange between house republican leader john boehner and vice president joe biden. >> the prospect of higher taxes, stricter rules, more regulations has employers sitting on their hands. and after the pummeling they've taken from washington over the last 18 months, who can blame them? >> for eight years before we arrived in the west wing, mr. boehner's party ran the economy in the middle class literally into the ground. they took a $237 billion operating surplus inherited from the clinton administration and left us with a $1.3 trillion deficit. in the process quad droolled the national debt, all before we literally turned on the lights in the west wing. gwen: now it was a wedged over a distance by two men who clearly were prepared, reading off a teleprompter their attack lines. why are they having this fight now? >> this is a battle for the soul of the stimulus going into the elections. both boehner and biden want to present a narrative about whether the stimulus worked or not. of course, biden is claiming and has been out all week with

. >>> on tuesday john boehner said the president should keep the tax cuts and get rid of timothy geithner and other top economic officials in order to target what he called ongoing economic uncertainty. >> we do not have the luxury of waiting months for the president to pick scapegoats for his failing stimulus policies. we tried 19 months of government as community organizer and it hasn't worked. our fresh start needs to begin now. >> a short time later vice president joe biden said boehner and the republicans want to give help to taxpayers who don't need it. >> what mr. boehner wants to do is extend the tax cut to the remaining 2%. that means going out to have to borrow another $70 billion over the next ten years to give $100,000 tabs tax cuts to someone making $1 million. >> the vice president also said republican leaders have not offered any constructive ideas to help the economy. >>> well, the latest sign of trouble, the biggest drop in existing home sales ever recorded. existing homes, in other words, not new homes, are selling at the lowest rate in 15 years after a 27% decline last