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At the moment about this piece of budget legislation with the obamacare part included. dana bash is in washington right now awaiting the speakers remarks. tell us more, dana rnc. >> reporter: well, hes just finishing a meeting with his entire republican caucus happening just in the room next to is. we are awaiting his arrival and the rest of the republican leadership. this is something thats fair to say john boehner and most of his leaders wanted to avoid. when i say "this," its effectively givi...

>> we all join with the comments that the leader made on the loss that we saw this monday. i tell you we just walked out of conference and i noticed all of you -- >> lets break away. you heard the house speaker john boehner and the majority leader eric cantor talking about this short-term spending bill theyre going to introduce in the house of representatives. it would keept government running, but it would also dwund obamacare. and the reason thats important is that makes it much more likely th...

Senate. it wont be different this time. so they know that this is something that they are doing to make a point, to be on the record once again because for five weeks, carol, groups like the heritage action network, heritage foundation, and others have been out there pounding conservatives saying youve got to support tying funding the government to defunding obamacare. they came back and said to their leadership, we need to take a vote on this in order to not get pounded again by the right in th...

Like they will, and the democrat-led senate which will obviously say no way they wont do this. as a matter of fact, the senate majority leader harry reid said yesterday this is the definition of insanity, thinking if you do something over and over again youll get a different result. the bottom line is they understand in the republican leadership is th is probably the only way they can pass any measure to keep the government running. theyre hoping at least maybe theyre going to get this out of th...