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To prevent a shut down. the leadership of the house is so weak they cant fight against the minority of the house that controls things. >> its funny. we talk about the hastert rule which is a majority of the majority. it is not clear that is necessarily what is at odds here. it is possibility it is a minority of the majority that would have voted against a clean cr. when i was going back and forth with robert costa, that knows it well, he is talking about a clean cr to avoid a shut down. >> he co...

Discuss this so that we can resolve this with the american people. questions? >> reporter: so the stakes have really been raised in this now, and you have members on both parties who want to vote on a clean cr. will you permit a vote on a clean cr? >> we are hoping that the senate will take our offer to go to conference and resolve our differences. >> reporter: the workers will receive notices they are no longer needed on the job. do you have a plan to restore back pay to them. ? >> the house ha...

Congressman mulvaney, however, i do think that overall, this collective strategy related to the legislation thats now before us is a political gimmick, and its not going to work. harry reid has clearly indicated that its dead on arrival if it gets to the senate. the president wont sign it into law, and its a further delay tactic that has us spilg dorali down the road to a government shutdown. i think a clean cr is best for the american people and i hope at the end of the day, reasonableness will...

Now, it appears the house is not going to do anything to keep the government from shutting down. theyve got some jerrywood thing about going to conferences if madam president its embarrassing that these people who are elected to rep ep sent the country are representing the tea party, the anarchists in the country. majority of the republicans in the house are following every step of the way. this is an unnecessarily blow to america. to the economy and everyone. the house should pass a cr weve sen...

Continuing resolution. up to this point, house republicans refused to go to conference on a the federal budget which is how we wound up with the resolution. duct tape that keeps them open while the long term plan is worked out. reid said a conference committee is a nonstarter. >> we passed the budget. we passed the budget because it is the right thing to do and republicans said we should pass a budget and we did. senator murray has for more than six months, requested conference on the budget 18 ...

Government, a day of celebration for the republican dominated house led by the tea party over there. we hear the next camp at the house is to request a conference on the cr. we like to resolve issues. in the senate chamber tonight is chair woman patty murray. she worked so awfully hard to pass a budget in this body. we worked until 5:00 in the morning to get it passed. we voted in over 100 amendments. we passed a budget because its the right thing to do and the republicans said we should pass a ...

Discussions when they make the promises, cut the spending then instead of saying you should have cut it. >> the president of the united states wants to spend more money. every time we talk about negotiations he wants to raise taxes and increase spending. the president doesnt want to cut spending. the senate, you saw reid tell his head of the finance committee if you want to do tax reform the only tax reform would raise at least a trillion dollars so it could all be spent. the democrats want to s...

Outrageous. can you give us the latest youve been hearing? i know the house has been voting in the last few minutes. >> reporter: theyve been voting on the issue of conferees. but as harry reid said he will table it. what is interesting, i spoke to republican members and they were caught off guard by speaker boehners motion not expecting him for the conferencees on the cr. they are going to have a press conference around 1:00. they want to continue this message. they want to see the government o...

Not worry. well explain it all. at this hour, heres where we stand. the senate has rejected the latest stunt from the house. that included a one-year delay in the individual mandate of affordable care act and also, a bizarre provision that would essentially take health care funding away from congressional staff members. very, very weird little twist. that would end up just messing up the lives of hundreds of staff members that work on capitol hill. the senate said no way. we want a clean c.r. th...

And here we are. and now speaker boehner, who is not been strong enough, frankly, to stand up to the tea party, realizes he is in a real dilemma. he wants to shut the government down and the american people cone want that. cnn came out with a poll today. what should we do? end obamacare or keep the government going? 60%, keep the government going. only 34, i believe, end obamacare. the closer we get to this faithful hour. were only an hour away from a government shutdown. the more people will un...