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Check, a medicare check. >> what the republicans want to do is move the cr, the debt ceiling and sequestration, all having an expire or start about the same time, which would be january. so thats probably what we see here is very small incremental stuff in order to lump it into one fight. >> thats assuming they can get anything through the house. >> and thats a big problem. democrats are telling boehner, you go find your 218 on your own. >> thats why we saw him pull it because he didnt have the ...

Washington can win this fight. only you can win this fight. >> politico reports, some republican house staff members are trying to force the senate to make the first move on the budget so sensor ted cruz will be forced to take a stand before action in the house. republican leadership wants to see him and others stand up and filibuster. the cr in short, the house is sick of getting blamed for being weak on obama care. democra democra democrats welcome the opportunity to exploit the conflict in th...

>> it many just a short measure anyway. martha: congress cant seem to do their job and get a budget together. we just go from cr to cr to cr which is basically a band-aid. gregg: she is accused of pushing her husband off a cliff, killing him in a national park. they had only been married 8 days. its the judges ruling in the case that is sparking outrange. martha: remember when lois lerner took the fifth and how outraged some people are. now the executives e-mails. you might be surprised by what ...

>> they could have marked them up and they didnt do that. >> but i thought he just said budget. matt, you just said budget. the reason theres no budget is because the right wing in the senate is what the reason is. and you know that. >> heres what were asking for. we would like to skip the trickery. we would like to know where all house members, all senate members stand on this bill that the president himself says is not ready for prime time. thats what were asking for. >> i believe -- >> they w...

I thought i would have to face, and that would be america going to war. so for me, this is a relief because i know what the problems are. the difficulty is how you resolve it. people talk about the republicans want to do this and the republicans want to do that. that is not so. theres a handful of republicans that made up their mind that they dont mind hurting the republican party, the congress and if were talking about the debt ceiling, they dont mind hurting the united states of america. >> th...

Chairman of the appropriations committees advice and pass the cr without the sequester and let us move on and he said immediately after the election that he believed that this was just after the november 12th election. that i want to switch gears. >> hypocrisy. nobody in the world has been more involved in undermining the ability of the united nations to involve itself in a positive way in resolving conflicts and carrying out the resolutions of the united nations than russia. therefore when puti...

The problem, some of our colleagues on the senate side cant do that they are trying to use the house to accomplish their own ends. i dont think thats particularly productive. >> thats just sort of how it works. thats sort of the passage of legislation. seems like some members in the house dont understand theres no way defunding obama care is going to get through the senate. do you have conversations trying to explain that to them? >> certainly theres always a pretty vigorous exchange of views in...

>> you look at the approval ratings for congress. i havent sewn the recent number. 12 percent is a estimate is where the approval numbers are. chris, people look at this and they are so over all of you. and if you cant go in a room and say we need a budget. we are not doing another cr and do what the constitution commands we do and develop a budget and give you a little bit and you what you want and get out of here with a budget. is that going to happen? >> not during this administration. the pr...

You say why was there no budget? because ted cruz led the effort to kill it. you cant kill something and then say too bad somebody killed it. >> chris, in all fairness, actually, it was harry reids scheduling. he did not schedule the appropriation bills. refused -- >> were talking about the budget. >> they could have marked them up and they didnt do that. >> but i thought he just said budget. matt, you just said budget. the reason theres no budget is because the right wing in the senate is what ...

Lets fully fund every part of the government except this one piece thats not ready for prime time. theres nothing about a government shutdown in that strategy. everybodys freaking out so much ive got to believe were on to something here. >> why would the united states senate, which is governed by the democrats, and the president of the united states, who is a democrat and the one who put this bill into action, who got it through the congress, why would he sign legislation which would kill his pr...