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Medicare expansion act moved up to 2020 as it is now, and in defiance of house speaker bill obrien who wants a vote on the bill from committee, they want to open up the entire amendment process. >> god bless the speaker, but thats not how the legislative program mark process is supposed to work. if you can get an amendment to the floor, lets have the debate, your best shot, see what happens. thats how its supposed to work, not supposed to be closed off. >> nick mulvaney working to get the pill t...

Big committees waging these, now theyve got to test the water. >> sean: and the amendment process where no one has any idea how its going to come out. am i so unrealistic -- im sorry. >> i was just going to say, as vice president pence has pointed out, now the process goes forward, we suspect -- we dont know, but i suspect -- there might be one or two amendments in order by the time i get to the floor. conservatives have a real shot at amending it. then paul ryan, with the help of the president ...

Medicare expansion act moved up to 2020 as it is now, and in defiance of house speaker bill obrien who wants a vote on the bill from committee, they want to open up the entire amendment process. >> god bless the speaker, but thats not how the legislative program mark process is supposed to work. if you can get an amendment to the floor, lets have the debate, your best shot, see what happens. thats how its supposed to work, not supposed to be closed off. >> nick mulvaney working to get the pill t...

And means, energy and now they have to test the water. >> sean: the amendment process, no one has any idea how its going to come out. am i so unrealistic -- >> i suspect. >> sean: go ahead. im sorry. >> i was going to say, the vice-president has pointed out you know now the process goes forward. we suspect -- i dont know but i suspect there might be one or two amendments in order by the time we get to the floor. now the conservatives have a real shot at amending it. then paul ryan with the help ...

Direction, voting today to start deba on a budget resolution to repeal substantial parts of the law. but repeal is the easy part, its the replacement thats the problem. >> for years theyve talked about repeal but for five years now they have had nothing to put in its place. now theyre responsible for the entire health care system and it will be on their backs and i believe a year from now they will regret that they came out so fast out of the box to repeal. >>ow, democrats cant stop republicans ...

System twice to become elected president. >> the constitution has the electoral college in it, and the constitution tells us, if you want to change it, you can do it, but you have to go through the amendment process. so what the president is saying is, frankly, strange and bizarre. >> the key question now is, is it really possible that there will be enough electors to flip their vote and make -- >> no. >> hillary clinton the 45th president? >> no way. weve had a couple of faithless electors in s...

Of 50. do you think theres any chance that the republicans get together from the state legislature base and have a constitutional convention, and if so, what could they change? >> well, the second question is a lot easier than the first. what could they change? they could change the whole constitution. i think there is a lot to worry about and be concerned about in this country. a constitutional convention is not one of them. >> even though theyre only two legislatures away? >> there are legal q...

Process where every member of congress has a crack that writing the amendment process where we get our work done on time. i dont like this process at all. i watched this process from the outside and never liked it there. i think we need to get through this and get on to doing it the right way next year. bill: on politics donald trump called you weak on immigration. a week ago you called him out on his ban against muslims. is trumps campaign good for the gop? >> i think this is a healthy primary ...

Decisions being made in the back room by a handful of leaders. >> would some of the rules changes youre talking about actually open up legislative opportunities to democrats, minority parties, amendments in the house of representatives? >> i think if to you open up that amendment process for members in general, that would include the minority party. and i think thats part of this. whether thats run of the rules that ultimately gets changed, thats yet to be seen, but i do think its a process that...

>> youre right. i think it happens too much. when it comes to civil rights, clearly were still debating these important issues. we did pass, we had a civil war. and we passed three constitutional amendments around these issues on civil rights. the problem with issues like abortion and now the questions around marriage, is that when the supreme court up ends all the state laws without going through that amendment process. so without going through democratic process, we will spent another generati...