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October 16, 2013
>> chad says there is one scenario where they hope to wrap this up by the afternoon or this evening. that has been said before. byron, thanks. >> sure, bill. bill: martha has more now. martha: congressman louie gohmert, an outspoken tea party republican gave his take why he refused to vote for the house bill. here he is on "the kelly file" last night. >> there is no statute of limitations on doing whats right. i dont think all is lost. if we have lead thats will stand up and do the right thing. ...
October 16, 2013
Calling boehner and saying, you foe what, you guy, asia is shaky right now. you guys have like about 12 hours to get your act there. then they put a clean cr on the bill. it gets a majority of the votes. >> kelly odonnell. >> and the crash is averted. >> they bet that responsible adults in the end will prevail. but let me give you the floor after telling this next story, bus it kind of crystallizes whether or not they are adults. house republicans who find themselves with their backs against the...
October 16, 2013
Passed a clean cr. boehner agreed to it. it was done. that is before ted cruz got in -- >> i dont remember. >> yes, it was agreed to. it was agreed to. >> we got to break, let me just tell you one thing. you have to remember we have a constitution. our constitution is our rule of law. we have separation of powers, part of those powers are that congress has the power of the purse. they all funding begins with them. and you know what? if they dont want to fund obama care, that is a power that our ...
October 16, 2013
Voting for an agreement, certainly enough to put it over the top. >> you. >> yes, i will. but therell be many more who support it but will be voting no. >> so a minority. it will pass with majority democratic support minority republican. you predict? >> that will be my guess. the question is how many republicans will it be closer to 20 or 75. i dont know. >> and just to be clear, they could be voting no because it would be politically dangerous for them to vote yes for something that many conser...
October 16, 2013
Theres a solution to this crisis that has the majority of votes in the senate and the majority of votes in the house. we have always known that a straight forward cr and likely a straight forward increase of the debt limit would get the majority votes in both places. we have always just been arguing over whether john bain sir willing to bring that to a vote in the house. this is about the psychology of one man and whether he is willing to put at risk his speakership by cobbling together a deal t...
October 16, 2013
Misery from cancer trials to people on wic, to people on food stamps, all of that so they could give their staff a pay cut. now there is no demand and all there is is what you cook up in the senate and then what? >> well, thats the question. i mean, listen, we have never been arguing over whether theres a solution to this crisis that has the majority of votes in the senate and the majority of votes in the house. we have always known that a straight forward cr and likely a straight forward increa...
October 16, 2013
Say all right, mr. president, you illegally told businesses we would waive the mandatory requirement for them. all were asking -- and i was e-mailing right before. i dont think all is lost if we have leaders that will stand up and do the right thing. all right, listen, raise the debt ceiling. extend the cr, except demand, force the senate to take this vote that we will suspend the individual mandate as the president illegally did for businesses. and force them to take a vote. megyn, how is it ri...
October 16, 2013
Administration being in obama care. members of congress will be in, so do a lot of americans, isnt it unfair that the president be so great he join us in obama care, isnt that fair? >> that was the issue for the caucus and the republican party. >> listen, this is a proposal that we made before the government shutdown. we said obama has to be in obama care and treat people like big businesses in regard to taxes. last night the deal john bohner was working out was a clean cr, a funding bill and a ...
October 16, 2013
Total cash. we already are seeing consequences in the market. and i think that this is now back on track. but unfortunately we lost a day because of this. >> what will happen tomorrow? assuming that a deal is basically kind of hammered out tonight, filed tomorrow, do you see this actually what going to the weekend? >> you know, i think its hard to know. i think some of this depends on whether the house and senate can play well together. and whether we can get kind of a little shortcut by having ...
October 16, 2013
We need to pass what we call a cr, which is a budget bill at a level that i detest really, its too low with the sequester level, but we need to pass that so we can get to a real budget committee and begin to talk about how we move forward. thats what we need to do. we have compromised quite a bit so we need to put the bill up. we need to ask the speak tore have some courage, i know that there are enough republicans to vote for that bill. we need to do that and move on. >> barbara lee, thank you ...