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Pass the bill by christmas have brushed off those attacks, saying a future congress would never allow those increases to actually occur and focussing instead on what sources in both chambers say has been the driving force behind the whole process thus far. >> i have high confidence the senate is going to pass this bill. i know the house is going to pass this bill. im one of those people who believes failure is not an option. >> before the end of the yearier. >> yeah, before the end of the year. ...

Rate important for small businesses. those are important things and they think that will help them get this across the finish line. >> and phil, while everybody is talking about the senate, lets not forget that the house is actually voting on its tax reform bill tomorrow. they feel pretty good about it inside the house gop leadership. >> lets put this in perspective. the house is about to pass a tax overhaul, something you used to not be able to get committees to even have hearings on these prop...

Democrats have seized on this issue. trying to rally the grass roots like they did throughout the health care debate. the republican play is this, they know this is politically toxic. they know this is divisive, but their hope based on what theyve seen over the last couple weeks in the tax reform process is that the political imperative of doing something, of doing anything at this point will win out, when it comes to the debate over whether or not repealing the individual mandate is good politi...

Internal party political imperative to get something don done. >> on the one hand, yes, thats true. you dont see people clamoring for tax reform. on the other hand, one of the things people forget is how much the economy plays into political decisions. the sluggish economy in 2016 contributed to the victory of donald trump. there has been improvement in terms of consumer confidence and small businesses ding excited. republicans understand that its the growth of the economy that will seal their f...

Hopefully get it through. it is a calculated risk. no question about it. it is seared into their memory. and up to the point of now, they havent been able to get the votes for health care. they believe the political imperative, the speed with which theyre moving. they need to do something, anything on the legislative front will end up winning the day over the political kernels. over riling up the base. over co-mingling with tax reform. the big question is, will it pay off? they feel comfortable....

Included its taken so long for it to get to this point. they know how risky it is to commingle tax reform in a toxic health care debate. this is their play right now. the belief that the political imperative that you noted, that they have to get something done, anything done, will in the end outweigh the policy issues that arise from this. the big question now is health care has driven the grass roots on the democratic side so heartily over the course of the last nine months. the phone calls tow...

Republican voters who said, we sent you to washington, reexpect results. lets look at the political imperative on the other side. i looked at the cook political reports rates of all the house members. there are 37 house members in toss-up races or lean republican races and 17 of them are in california, new york and new jersey. places that would be hit by these state and local tax deduction changes. >> getting rid of allowing deductions if you have high local taxes. >> right. its hard to separate...

Acknowledged this is on the table. their meryes of health care is kind of seared into their brain. the calculation on their end became pretty simple. they needed the money. if they could get this through, this would be two significant policies. and theyre willing to take the political risk of riling democrats on the health care issue to try to push this forward. the calculation the political imperative will win out in the end, and on the policy they simply had to do it, wolf. >> dennis, what do ...

Not have power but then gold is not the only solution if you look at the indian energy policy in the last few years in just about ten to twelve years weve increased our mix of renewable energy doubled it and gone up to about thirteen times in fact and we have a vicious plan of having about hundred seventy five give you a lot of a noble energy of which close to one hundred gigawatt is going to come from solar energy so we are looking at cleaner energy we are looking at non-food fossil fuels and w...

A secretary in indias environment history is heading up indias delegation and bonn mr mishra first of all thank you for joining us on our program now as we heard india is already the worlds third largest carbon polluter and the country plans to double its coal output by twenty twenty dont you see that as a problem weve increased our mix of renewable energy doubled it and gone up to about thirteen times in fact and we have a vicious plan of hiving about hundred seventy five give you a lot of the ...