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Government properly, and we have c.r. after c.r., thats detrimental to the american people. when were at a situation where we cant even talk to each other and facing the debt ceiling, that is detrimental to the american people. the president today said, we need to get back to a sense of normalcy. well, normalcy means passing appropriations bills. thats how we form -- and by the way, if we did that, we wouldnt be here tonight with a shut down government because thered be no c.r. if we pass approp...

Ceiling. and actually deals with, with cutting the spending. getting spending under control. martha: senator chris van hollen, who we wanted to speak to today, who we hope will be here tomorrow, congressman van hollen, i should say, theyre saying they will talk after you guys agree to pass a clean cr and a clean debt ceiling. then they want an extension over that period of time as part of the agreement. then they say they will sit down and talk about negotiations. what do you think? whats your r...

Asking john boehner to schedule a vote. we know. they would sign their names. 195 votes to start with, just from democrats for a clean budget. need 217. start at 195. so, were going to count this up for the speaker in case it is helpful. start with 195. we have 195 democratic votes. a bunch of republicans in the past few days would vote with the democrats to end the shutdown and pass a clean budget. starting with 195. lets add representative pat meehan. he put out a statement saying it was time ...

It will pass. it was, it was interesting to see the white house get so overt and have the president himself say that directly today. any reaction to that on the hill you can discern? >> so the reaction from republican leadership is why are you trying to put us in this corner? boehner could put a clean cr on the floor and ask everybody to vote against it and a lot of them would. and then he could go back to the white house and say, look you asked me to put it on the floor. they voted against it. ...

Appointed by the united states supreme court. people have moved forward as of october 1 to enroll and sign up. we have a lot of interest in it. they need to get over it. if they want to repeal obama care, they have to go through the legislative process to do that. there is a process. this is not how you do it. and the president is absolutely correct. he is not going to negotiate with a gun at his head. at a time when we should be dealing with the budget. and not trying to overdo political care a...

Use of words like ransom, extortion, dead beat in the course of his conversations. he did float a couple of ideas where the potential out may be, simply acknowledging that he pledged to sign a short-term clean cr, something like six to eight weeks that would remove that issue and allow for negotiations, also floated the idea of increasing the debt limit for whatever the length of time is that negotiations take. he said he would negotiate on things like the health care law as well as the long-ter...

Talking point? >> the republicans say why not allow the senate to vote on the issue by issue clean cr? the republicans have said are you concerned about national parks? the president is putting up fences around parks in d.c. and around the country. they passed a clean cr for national parks. lets make sure the national institutes are health are kept open. >> is that a financially responsible way to operate the government? >> it says to the government and the politics they cant turn around and use...

And do the real legislative work. instead they have gone for this impossible let me tie this segment together with the one you just did. >> please do. >> we saw the "new york times" story that you cited in this segment, what we did a couple of weeks ago is that there was not a republican plan. there was a right wing plan. a conservative plan from the very get go to get this all gymed up. there were a couple of tea party members of the house. before ted cruise is a household name to a cr that was...

But increasingly, the noise its getting louder. they dont like what theyre -- what theyre seeing happening. and so im just hopeful that they will be able to convince the speaker that hes got to back away from being led by the most conservative element in the republican caucus. and i hope that they will keep telling him that he has got to bring a clean cr, because theyre prepared to vote for it. if he put it on the floor tomorrow, then it would pass? >> what, what is your response to, to the, the...

Time for a clean cr. thats 197. new jersey, john runyan supports that as well. congressman, mike fitzpatrick. said i was sent to washington to solve problems. not shut it down. up to 199. remember these are all republicans in the house who would vote with democrats to pass a clean budget. lou barletta of pennsylvania told his local paper he would support a clean bill. 200 already. peter king told national review he would not vote for anything but a clean budget bill. 201. congressman charlie den...