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Contrary is not a fact. secondly, we will not diminish or increase the opportunity for abortion, and this bill does not do that. third, we are going to pass a health care bill, so the compromise language in the senate bill i dont think makes everybody happy, but the fact is it honors those principles of no federal funding of abortion and no expansion of abortion rights and it moves us toward passing a bill. >> you will lose some of the democrats if the language stays the way it is. >> we will se...

The results were out a couple days ago, the american people do not want us to use that kind of parliamentary device to jam this down their throats. >> i want to go back to one question, and that is is there something within reconciliation, which does appear will happen despite the objections of the majority and some democrats that it will happen, but is there something within that process that you can do? >> it wont surprise you to know i would not want to layout in advance the approaches that c...

And not knowledgeable about it and dont have alternatives. we laid out a number of different things that we think would make more sense to go step by step to fix the cost problem, and also its important to remember, the american people do not want this bill. they paid a lot of attention to the issue. they focused on it like a laser for months. >> if you took something like malpractice reform, which you all have really wanted to put in there in a real form rather than pilot programs here and ther...

Taking over the show. >> thank you very much. let me start with your ending possession after the summit, and that is start over again. short of that, is there any way the president can reconfigure this bill that would get your support? >> i dont think so, candy. this is a massive overhaul of one-sixth of the economy. republicans dont believe half a trillion dollars in medicare cuts and half a trillion dollars in new tax and possibly higher insurance premiums for all in the insurance market is re...

Because they by and large approve of each of the provisions. and when we showed them what the priorities that have been boiled down to and what it means to them as they sit around their kitchen table rather than us sitting around a table at blare house, i think that will have a very positive result. it will be great for the american people. >> but you know because you have heard from some of these house members, i am sure, who come to you and say i cannot live with this or i am getting nailed ba...

Honest and increase competition which would be good for the consumer. a year later we are closer to what the republicans were suggesting at that time, an exchange, and not a public option. so this legislation has accommodated many of their views, even though we may not get their vote, but it accommodates many of their views. >> has it accommodated too much and i ask this on the abortion language in the senate which is mirrored by the presidents proposal, and you signaled a couple times you can l...

Trying to strive for bipartisanship. there are hundreds of republican amendments in the bill, and the republicans placed their own bill here in the house, and so we have a different value system here. but they have had plenty of opportunity to make their voices heard. if they wanted to truly have -- bipartisanship is a two-way street. let me say the bill can be bipartisan even though the votes may not be bipartisan. because they made their imprint on this. as i say, we were all for public option...

This. now its pretty much too late. they can amend, but -- why didnt you at the very beginning say come on in here, congressman boehner, and come on in here and lets sit down and where do we start on the bill, and not amend the package? >> thats not the way it happened. the president called us march 5th, and we left the room hopeful. we went into the legislative process. hundreds of hours of hearings and bill writing and all the rest where the republicans made their suggestions. we know one of t...

There is not going to be an immediate benefit to anybody in the process, even if a bill is passed tomorrow. so its going to take that amount of time for these things that you say are, well, we dont really know exactly what its going to look like to play themselves out. that could help the president if things look better by 2010. certainly members of congress on the line in november, thats not so easy. >> this is amy walter and ceci connally. we will be back with both of them right after this. �...

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