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Representatives, bob knows ive been ridiwriting in the philadea daily news challenging our four suburban republicans and these type of congressman will tell the tale of the tape. ive been challenging them will you sign a discharge vote to get universal background checks and dont you think its fair to say, bob, they have been hiding? >> did they answer the daily news question? >> they didnt answer. they are for universal background checks maybe but didnt admit to signing a discharge petition. eac...

Are a lot of syrian refugees who are not seeing any of it the way the u.n. rules work. as long as the u.n. is recognizing the assad government that aid is not allowed to go into opposition territory which is where most of the refugees are so a whole calderon of issues. >> changing topics just a bit. some things only happen every four years, presidential elections and olympics and leap years. this weekend the senate did something it hadnt done in more than 1,400 days. they actually passed a budge...

Filled with sports people, hunters, gun owners, the vast majority of them responsible. where are you on what wayne lapierre said? >> well, we have a million hunters in the state. as ed knows, its a big part of our culture and pennsylvania. after newtown i spent a lot of time thinking what happened there and i made a pretty substantial shift in my position. i think we should have not only a vote but pass some of the measures we have been talking about, the assault weapons ban, the magazine clip l...

It, so much controversy that has gone into it, that deals with such issues that are so visceral for the core and the base of each of these parties to have a vote like that, a lot of people felt like it was going to be sort of a tidal wave coming from the senate side through the rotunda, and to sort of wash away the opposition within the house republican conference. but as they used to say on "get smart," not quite, zig freed. the house republicans met in the morning. it was very apparent there w...

With an overwhelming majority, which sort of tells you that these folks have had enough. and the skids are greased for this thing. and the estimate for a final vote was about 11:15. something tells me were going to see the gavel come down considerably earlier than that, richard. >> okay. you and i will be watching that. what about the white house? any response so far on the developments today after the 2:00, 2:00 a.m. bill was sent over from the senate? what has happened between then as the pres...

Right when they come up for a vote again in 2014? >> i think theyre going to say look what we did for your tax rates. look at what we did on the -- your -- the average voter in my district got a tax cut based on the january 1st baseline. congratulations for that. we kept our pledge. i mean, there is always an odd cinderella aspect to this where at midnight it became a tax cut. a lot of people scoffed at that. but republicans took that quite seriously. grover norquist has absolved them and said v...

Also in there nbc news correspondent luke russert has been at the capitol all night watching this. luke, you know, it started at 2:00 a.m. >> yes. >> there were some positive signs coming from the senate, and boy, that is a long time away from right now. what is the latest youre hearing in terms of timing? >> in terms of timing, i spoke to a few gop aides, and they think about 11:00 for final passage. and just i say that, richard, and just a few hours ago when we spoke we had no idea that this b...

Have to rely on democrats to put them over the top. the question remains how many republicans are going to vote for this, and how many democrats are going to be required to get to 217. 217 being the majority with three vacancies in the house right now, richard. >> okay. were watching that rule vote on the house floor right now. when that finishes, we expect within about an hour and 15 minutes or so for the vote to be complete on the senate bill that passed at 2:00 a.m. thank you so much, mike vi...

Mcconnell and joe biden spent all night working on, its moving forward and could become law in the next day or so. >> you know, one of the issues was eric cantor, the second ranking gop member there in the house. he had said he could not support the senate bill. might it be possible here, luke, that we will see the speaker vote for it, and well see eric cantor say no? >> certainly its possible. usually the speaker of the house doesnt vote on legislation unless the party that theyre a member of a...

Every tax cut. and i remember many of straight to capitol hill, the house floor, we seldom get to say that at 9:54 p.m. in the evening they are working. at the moment, a debate has started on the senate bill, and they will vote on the senate bill and we could have a piece of legislation by tomorrow if it is forwarded to the president as it makes its way through the house right now. theyre going through the debate, we heard from michigan, darrell issa from california, a very prominent republica...