we ll be live when it hams. yesterday speaker boehner told the troops to get their asses in line . apparently not enough republicans have, and now his credibility is on the line. most of the opposition coming from tea party supporters, raw, open, direct rebellion. we want to make sure we never get here again. i want to support something that makes sure we never get here again. the deal that is on the table makes the hole deeper. and so don t you shouldn t expect people who believe that we should balance the budget to vote for a deal that makes the hole deeper. i can t support this plan. i would love to be able to support speaker boehner, leader cantor. i have to have something that transcends election cycles. i can t support it. well, over on the democratic-controlled senate side, they are waiting to get a house bill simply so they can vote no on it. then, experts say, the real bargaining could begin on some kind of compromise that both the house and senate might a
generation of republicans in line. and president obama warns, and i m quoting him now, we are almost out of time, urging all americans to keep the pressure on washington and bring this devastating crisis to an end. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. you re looking at a live picture right now of the house floor, where just a short time from now, we expect to see that critical vote on the gop debt plan. the vote was supposed to happen yesterday around this time, but was abruptly postponed when the house speaker john boehner failed to get the 216 votes it needs for passage. meanwhile, with only days left to solve this unprecedented crisis, wall street is already reeling. stocks posted their worst weekly performance in more than a year while the dow fell about 97 points today. this on the heels of a dismal new economic report out today, showing the country s economic growth has now slowed to a crawl. let s go straight to our congressional correspondent, kate ba
to send it to the senate where it can receive action. well, the vote was scheduled for yesterday, rescheduled for early this evening and then put on hold again so the leadership could wrangle votes. they re going that literally as we speak. still promising a vote sometime tonight. we ll be live when it hams. yesterday speaker boehner told the troops to get their asses in line . apparently not enough republicans have, and now his credibility is on the line. most of the opposition coming from tea party supporters, raw, open, direct rebellion. we want to make sure we never get here again. i want to support something that makes sure we never get here again. the deal that is on the table makes the hole deeper. and so don t you shouldn t expect people who believe that we should balance the budget to vote for a deal that makes the hole deeper. i can t support this plan. i would love to be able to support speaker boehner, leader cantor. i have to have something that transc
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