Bucco,I'll present one example of what I mean. The student loan interest bill. Simply put it would keep the current interest rate instead of raise it. No add-ons,nothing else attached to it.It would be payed for by closing one loop hole that the rich use to pay less taxes. Yet the repubs refuse to support it and vote against it. Why? Politics. Do not let the President have any success,none. So the kids suffer and the rich get richer.