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Credit card and buckle down. >> the vote to disapprove was part of the debt deal last summer. democrats, the majority in the senate, the measure is not a threat to president obamas ability to borrow. still the republicans are pushing president obama to address the drivers of the debt. >> where is the president entitlement reform plan? where is his tax reform plan? where is his regulatory reform plan? where is his litigation reform plan? mr. speaker, i have seen his re-election plan. >> the house...

Ed henry live at the white house and bret baier live in our washington newsroom. but, first to mike emanuel tracking developments on capitol hill. mike, so what happens now? >> well, lawmakers, jon are expected to try to pass this, what is known as unanimous consent. speaker jon boehner also talked about a broader effort to strike a full one-year deal. >> the senate will join the house in immediately appointing conferees with instructions to reach an agreement in the weeks ahead on a full one-ye...

19% of them should be, all of them should be deported1 3% in favor of a guest worker program. governor of alabama says he is working to clarify and simplify the tough immigration law. opponents to the measure are welcoming the statement by republican robert bently. federal courts have allowed part of the law to go into effect. other parts are on hold spending the challenges. republicans who feared they may be pinned to the political map by president obama wrestling over a payroll tax cut, execut...

>> greta: you excluded the doctor fix. that has an impact on the deficit. >> of course it does. heres the point weve made and they have to agree. the fix has to be done whether you do the health care reform or not. the cost of the doc fix are unrelated to the health care reform bill. >> greta: congressman steve cohen from tennessee on the floor last night used words like nazi, blood libel, holocaust, today of course your first words, when you spoke you said, thank you mr. speaker, i hope the ten...

Heavily on them, part of whats underneath that is the formula the cbo is required to use. so, john boehner says, for example, when the health care reform law was added up last year, they didnt include the doc fix. one thing where they spend a lot more money to raise the rates pay to medicare doctors to cope them getting paid. lots of things that go into a cbo score. so, if you give the congressional budget office a list of factors, they will do the math. if you dont include all of them, the numb...

Goes the other way. if youre going to make rules that say money saving bills are okay, you cant say theyre okay except for bills you dont like. joining me to talk about, it cornell belcher, also dana loesch. dana, what about it? when the cbo says something republicans like they seem to sing its places but on this issue they say theres fuzzy math going on. are they being hypocritical? >> i dont think so in this instance because theres something kind of funny about all of this. first of all, the c...

Nancy pelosi initially had the doc fix in the health care legislation, but it was removed. so at one point it was removed before the cbo scored it. so at one point they thought these two pieces of legislation, this could be coupled together, that they were related, but those two things together do add to the deficit and thats the little known thing nobodys talking about. >> was the cbo gamed in all this? >> no. what you have is classic political gamesmanship, bait and switch politics at its fine...

The deficit. nancy pelosi initially had the doc fix in the health care legislation, but it was removed. so at one point it was removed before the cbo scored it. so at one point they thought these two pieces of legislation, this could be coupled together, that they were related, but those two things together do add to the deficit and thats the little known thing nobodys talking about. >> was the cbo gamed in all this? >> no. what you have is classic political gamemanship, bait and switch politics...

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