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Insufficient and far from comprehensive and treat religious liberty as a second class right. as you know its currently in the senate. do you agree with that assessment? >> i agree with them, yes. >> what do you make of their -- >> look, its unfortunate the democrats control the house, the senate and the presidency and were sitting here talking about this. maybe this is the reason why republicans took the majority in the house. they didnt do their job. they controlled all government and now were ...

Just goes to show you how fast moving and what a big priority this is for congressional leaders and notably kevin mccarthy said i think it will pass, though he did make sure to complain about the fact that, you know, the white house had celebrated earlier this year an agreement being reached and now congress is in a position where they have to act but nevertheless, very optimistic from both sides of the aisle this is going to get done and then on the important issue of funding the government, ch...

As opposed to a cr. all of us agreed the cr did harm on the military side and domestic side, or at least that was the consensus in the room. it was a good meeting and we made good progress. >> its exciting to have this marriage equality bill come up, so we passed it a while ago in the house and look forward to having a beautiful signing ceremony for that. okay, so the business at hand. first of all, i think its really important for people to know that we left -- if we dont have an option, we may...

If we cant get common sense and appropriation bills, yes, well support a cr and fix this come january. >> thank you. thank you. >> appreciate it. >> leader, what about members of the gop conference have ties to nick fuentes and representative marjory taylor green. >> she denounced him. yes. >> i had a question about -- sorry. i had a question about the border. i wanted to ask a little bit about border patrol officers you were saying theres not enough border patrol officers and its been really di...

People, not for their own political views. thats what we will get come january. >> the respect for marriage act. catholic bishops say protections are insufficient and far from comprehensive and treat religious liberty as a second class right. its in the senate. do you agree with that assessment by catholic bishops? >> i agree with them, yes. >> what do you make -- [ inaudible ] >> democrats control the house, senate and presidency. we are sitting here talking about this. maybe this is the reason...

>> its unfortunate that the democrats control the house, senate, and presidency. were sitting here talking about this, maybe this is the reason why republicans took the majority in the house. they didnt do their job. they controlled all government and now were sitting at the last moment in time debating whether to do a cr or not that we know causing pain to the american public. its because congress was not working, congress was not doing their job. but from saying all that, im not going to sit b...

Or at least that was the consensus in the room. so it is a good meeting. we made some progress. speaker. >> well let me congratulate you on the bill coming up today and on on your daughters marriage. a couple of years now. it is pretty exciting to have this marriage equality bill come up. so we passed it a while ago in the house. we look forward to having a beautiful signing ceremony for that. okay, so the business at hand. first of all, i think it is really important for people to know that we ...

Our military kicking men and women out. i remember the president calling that coast guard a hero and a week later he loses his job simply because his own belief of not taking a vaccine for covid. that has got to stop. we need common sense brought back and if we cant get common sense in appropriation bills yes, well support a cr and fix this come january. >> thank you. >> appreciate it. yes? >> what about members of the gop conference have ties to nick fuentes. >> she denounced him, yes. >> i had...

Of all, i think its really important for people to know that we left -- if we dont have an option, we may have to have a year-long cr. we dont prefer that. we dont think its a good idea, but nonetheless we have to have a bipartisan agreement as to what the top line is defense, domestic, discretionary, non-defense spending and thats what we have i think in good spirits have said well go to the next steps. >> all four of us trying to have a meeting of the mind we could get enough votes to pass in ...

We would try to get it done asasp. >> this is unfortunate. the president told us this was solved. now we find ourselves in the last moments, in the last hous asking us to rush a bill to the floor. >> reporter: of course, the president is hopeful. he said earlier that he was confident this could get resolved. the next couple of days are critical about whether that can happen. on a looming government funding deadline, speaker pelosi said this could turn into a year-long cr, which was not her prefe...