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Where they have officialdom that is all democratic, youre watching a great big money wheel turn. and thats precisely what quinn is asking for here. its what rahm emanuel is expecting. its the american federation of teachers, the national education association, its, it is one huge money waste. megyn: the problem is we talked about in the intro, if you have one state we help, where does it stop? the governor of illinois came out and said, oh, first of all, that was just a precautionary plan and se...

Workers, you would be open to that? >> neil, if -- youre not saying you would want workers who have coverage through a exchange right now, federal workers, to be denied coverage because of a drafting error by senator coburn when he drafted the amendment. >> neil: this is -- all right, fine. then looking after your own. >> we said -- lets make it clear. >> neil: if others find similar things that hurt them -- >> we make sure to say, if you have insurance and you like it, you keep it. a lot of fed...

I just wasnt aware of this. >> i havent heard from my employees about it and certainly, you know, it would seem unfair to ask someone to drop out until theres access to an exchange. >> and its not just the members who have to deal with this but some of their staff members maybe somehow exempted. do the staff members get a better deal? >> some of them. turns out the way this law is written some congressional aides who work for committees in the house and senate side and some congressional aides w...

Student loans. and ultimately the parliamentarian agreed with the republicans that it was out of order. the vice president, joe biden, was in the chair and had the option to overrule the parliamentarian, chose not to. democrats accepted the fact in the senate that there was a mistake and they sent it back to the house. it amounted to a drafting error of some sort. the number has changed now. what is it, jake? >> 31. >> 31 democrats have voted against the democratic bill and total of 210. we are ...

Vote and nothing can change and once there is a change it has to go back and neither one of those things they squabbled over have to deal with any aspect of medical insurance, so-called fix bill, makes it -- a handful of changes to the massively overhaul of health care, and we are keeping an eye on that and carl cameron is keeping an eye on that, too, carl, so the bill goes back over to the other side? >> reporter: ping-pong! yep! the house pinged it to the senate and, probably by the end of day...

Achbted by the law, but a drafting error left some doubt, but it was tweaked to fix it, so palins false charge about death panels were evaporated and the old standby -- >> the overwhelming number of people in minnesotas 6th congressional district want nothing to do with the government takeover of health care. >> reporter: government takeover of health care and the legislation actually builds on the current system which is why the presidents senior adviser david axelrod told me it is a recycled f...

Their own purchase? actually, the bill stipulates that most military care is not achbted by the law, but a drafting error left some doubt, but it was tweaked to fix it, so palins false charge about death panels were evaporated and the old standby -- >> the overwhelming number of people in minnesotas 6th congressional district want nothing to do with the government takeover of health care. >> reporter: government takeover of health care and the legislation actually builds on the current system wh...

The bill would give the president $25 billion in border security money and a path to citizenship for recipients of daca. thats a bill to focus on and the key issue for the president is that he has to depend on some of those conservatives, people who backed him early on in his race for the presidency to vote with him on immigration today. its not clear that thats going to happen. mark meadows, the chairman of the house freedom caucus, an ally of the president went up to house speaker paul ryan on...

Floor gesturing wildly, certainly what meadows described as a passionate discussion over whats in the bill, what are the certain elements of the bill and another big oops moment, last night there had to be and emergency meeting of the house rules meeting. it would have lead to 1125 millions instead of over 5 youves. certainly no small drafting error there. well be most interested to hear what speaker paul ryan says when he speaks to reporters up leer in the next hour. the big question is if they...

There was some big weakness in the law that this case had ferreted out, it was that the court had showed a really aggressive tack, just in its decision to take this case. this wasnt a case they had to take. it was basically an entire legal strategy against obamacare, an entire lawsuit against obamacare, based on a typo. it wasnt exactly a typo, but this wasnt a substantiative complaint about the obamacare law. this was basically, this whole case was basically about some descriptive language in t...