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to spend less and we achieved that goal. was it everything i wanted? no. but sitting with one house, a democratic senate and a democratic president who didnt want to meet with us, i think we did pretty dang good for the american public. our correspondent, nomia iqbal, has the latest from capitol hill. there was a sigh of relief in the chamber when it was finally announced the bill has passed the house of representatives. remember, the magic number was 218. in the end, 314 voted yes, so...

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Table a lot of uncertainty economically. that is also important going into an election year where both democrats and republicans want to have budget certainty and predictability as they are out on the campaign trail. >> a rare moment of cooperation in washington, d.c. to say the least. kelly odonnell live at the white house. thank you, kelly. shock waves across the pond this morning. the controversial man now set to be britains next prime minister. how he plans to repair growing strains betwee...

Points. one on the immediate affect of what a shutdown would have on military gathering of intelligence, what it would do in terms of training. but his broader point of what the short-term spending bills do to readiness, at a certain point, you remember president trump wants another short spending bill but he said the short-term bills on continuing resolutions do more harm to readiness along with the budget balanced act than any of the u.s. enemies over the last ten years. and then his final poi...

Operations will still be done. it is not going to be affected in real practical terms by a shutdown. that said, it continues to be harmed and i think in a very significant severe way by these continuing resolutions. what that means, and, again, barbara touched on this, they have to use funding from last year. they cant buy new equipment. some of the modernization and maintenance efforts will be damaged, there may be training curtailment. there is a real damage by the continuing resolution. that ...

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Be continued for the next couple of -- at least for the next year. >> i think theres not a tremendous argument on that. certainly not from here. but i will say, senator, what is going to change in the next two weeks or so to get something done on this? i mean, what does this tell you about congress prospects for getting things done overall in 2014? the tenor that does not allow unemployment to be dealt with some three days, you know, after christmas, people are going to run out of money. whats g...

Budget certainty and relief from sequester will carry the day. >> dick durbin described getting these votes as a struggle. do you think that thats a fair description of how its going to be to make it through? >> it is, but i think in the end we should have the votes because if you vote against it, what are you voting -- what are you voting for in a sense? youre voting for shorter term budget measure that say make no sense and youre voting for more uncertainty, more acrimony. and we need a lot le...

Especially if it has a defense department established stamp on it. but i digress. now to that big deal in washington and the big move closer for one paul ryan to be the next speaker of the house. mike with the latest on both. hey, michael. >> neil, busy afternoon here on capitol hill. supporters of that bipartisan budget package received some good news from the nonpartisan congressional budget office saying that the $80 billion increase split between defense and domestic spending is fully paid f...