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Congress, members and their staff, nobody gets federal subsidies to help to pay for their health care. so that is going on -- what happens now, wolf, is it goes back over to the senate. our understanding is that theyre going to take this up. and we expect them to reject it within the hour, so well watch for that to happen. but it looks like they have the votes in the house right now. >> if you look at that roll call right now, it is interesting, dana, there were 12 republicans voting with the de...

Because we dont have time to put it in a graphic. its quite lengthy. at the top it said today republicans and the house of representatives moved to shut down the government. congress has two jobs to do pass the budget and pay bills it has racked up. republicans in congress had the opportunity to pass a routine, simple continuing resolution that keeps the government running for a few more weeks but instead republicans decided they would rather make an ideological point by demanding the sabotage o...

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Andrea? >> chris, youve been doing your own web count. i think so far the last i checked with you, you had 14 house republicans willing to vote for a so-called clean continuing resolution. they only needed 17 to reach the magic number. where do you stand? >> there are three leaning that way, andrea. you know, im skeptical, i would say, about the white house meeting at least moving any numbers. kelly points it out. i would just point you to what they said, both the white house, john boehners offi...