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John boehner when they were in their 20s, 30s that they would have said the same thing. >> youre not looking at the next john boehner or harry reid. let me stha, though. the deal that was struck between paul ryan and patty murray could never have been trodded out by john boehner or harry reid if first those two budget chairman had not agreed and the budget conferrees not agreed. what i mean fwha is had there not already been a coalition, a group of people already embra embracing that field, if j...

Mark. >> well find out the answers soon. meantime, another budget showdown is looming on capitol hill. budget. so congress has just until december 13th to pass a new budget. susan, as you well know, and while back room talks led by congress members bill manchin, susan collins, are reportedly under way, there is little hope on the hill that lawmakers can come to an agreement in time. so i ask you, can we expect a grand bargain, or a mini deal? >> i think were looking at a much smaller deal arthel...

Do we think will happen within the next ten minutes or so the? >> we expect the senate to formally convene and senate leaders, democratic leader harry reid, republican leader mitch mcconnell to, once all of the pomp and circumstance is done, the prayer and the pledge and things like that, that they will come and formally discuss what we have been reporting and what mitch mcconnell has been telling his republican rank and file behind closed doors about for the last hour, which is a deal that they...

January 15th. the debt ceilinging will be raised at least until february 7th. in the meantime, house and senate budget conferrees, representatives of the house of representatives and representatives of the senate will work on long-term budget-related issues to try to many could up with some long-term agreements to deal with these issues, both harry reid and mitch mccobbling their respective best faces forward on what they have reached agreement on. we also heard from senator ted cruz, the tea pa...

They also are going to say the president, that congress i should say, must appoint budget conferrees to work out a real budget and, as weve been report, the president does have to sit down and start talking about ways to deal with the budget, specifically the funding of the government and how to reopen the government. >> yeah. at least somethings moving. dana, thanks. >> wolf, i want you to join in the conversation, if you will, here. talk about the new deadline that dana mentioned november 22nd...

Arguing for is the negotiations in this completely bizarre concept of a conference committee in regular order at a time when you have shut down the government. it is a very strange message and it speaks to how far they have had to retreat. theyre not even arguing for anything anymore. >> yeah. when the regular order -- when i saw on twitter -- >> i made you crack. >> when i saw on twitter, everybody is watching it kraep toward the deadline. theyre going on ping back and forth. drum roll and the ...

John bainer to appoint conferrees so they can work the through the difference. the house representatives have said no for six months, the tea party caucus and the senate has said we have no interest in that because we do not trust the process. with one hour to go, the house of representatives has bded now after six months of saying no to a conference committee, with the government about to shut down, with checks not going to roll out and people being furloughed and staff members facing uncertain...

He said no. he refused to appoint anybody to negotiate on the budget. we had votes calling upon the house. calling upon the speaker to appoint budget negotiators. they voted no. they voted to deny the house an opportunity to appoint budget conferrees. what happened in the senate? i believe at least 15 times, 18 times. 18 times. the majority leader harry reid and the budget chairman patty murray asked to appoint conferrees to work out budget issues and 18 time, republicans led by people like sena...

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Budget, no path. well, it turns out they werent serious about getting a federal budget. we did get a house budget. we did get a senate budget. but no federal budget. so why dont we have a budget? because the law requires that by april 15th, you have negotiators between the house and the senate, meet and work out these differences. try to make compromises for the greater good. they refused to do that. i want to call your attention to a resolution that we introduced in the house, kratss, way back ...