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to send it to the senate where it can receive action. >> well, the vote was scheduled for yesterday, rescheduled for early this evening and then put on hold again so the leadership could wrangle votes. theyre going that literally as we speak. still promising a vote sometime tonight. well be live when it hams. yesterday speaker boehner told the troops to "get their asses in line". apparently not enough republicans have, and now his credibility is on the line. most of the opposition comi...

up support for today, and essentially it would raise the debt ceiling and also save some $917 billion in spending over the course of the next decade, so were keeping an eye on that as always, but first lets get to that developing story for you out of texas. an awol muslim-american soldier has been arrested near ft. hood with what the fbi is saying is a large amount of bomb-making materials. private first class naser abdo is now in custody after a sales clerk at a gun shop alerted polic...

kate bolduan has the story. also tonight, ari fleischer and james carville get in a heated exchange. john mccain today snacking down fellow republicans. hes providing a reality check and so are the financial markets. the dow industrials today dropping nearly 200 points, making it four losing days in a row. the nasdaq and s & p down even more sharply. now, anyone with a 401 k has got to be worried at this point and watching this closely or should be. but assume for a minute that washing...

youre looking at live pictures right now in the house floor, where just moments from now a vote is scheduled on republican house speaker john boehners plan to avoid unprecedented default. but the bill which needs 216 votes to pass is facing fierce new backlash inside the party. if it does pass, it immediately goes to the senate for a vote where harry reid essentially says its dead on arrival. meanwhile, ceos at the biggest banks have their own warnings. fix this now or there will be gr...

hour. the details just coming in. an awol muslim american soldier now in custody in texas found with what the fbi is now saying is a large amount of bomb-making material near ft. hood. barbara starr is all over the story and will join nus a few minutes. first, debt debate but no deal. it all comes down to numbers. i dont mean 13-digit numbers with dollar signs in front of them. i mean this number. take a look here. five days until the treasury says it will run out of borrowed money. fi...

boehners plan has now checked harry reeds. today those same bean counters are saying, yep, reeds numbers are wrong as well. but they also say that when its all said and done, reeds deficit cutting trumps boehners by, listen to this, more a trillion dollars. reeds plan, ten years, $2.2 trillion in net debt reduction. meantime boehners plan $850 billion. again, six days until default. so what about the white house here? no debt meetings, not today, at least not publicly on the presidents...

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