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Senator mccain. but clearly those people who are watching what is happening in washington recognize that the reason i would support senator mccain is not just because he is a national hero and someone who people around the country feel is a spokesman for our party, a leader of our party, but he is also a lion in the senate. he is one of those guy who is able to move bodies and make things happen. >> larry: doesnt want to cooperate the rest of the year. >> by the way, when the president executes ...

Senator mccain. but clearly those people who are watching what is happening in washington recognize that the reason i would support senator mccain is not just because he is a national hero and someone who people around the country feel is a spokesman for our party, a leader of our party, but he is also a lion in the senate. he is one of those guy who is able to move bodies. >> larry: doesnt want to cooperate the rest of the year. >> when the president executes the nuclear option and says were go...

The fixes without a specific vote on the original senate bill itself. if the overall measure passing the senate bill is deemed to have passed opening the door for the senate to take up fixes under reconciliation or majority rules. at a tea party rally on capitol hill hill today con vefsh sieve activists blasted pelosi,ccused treason. >> liberals in washington, d.c., are so desperate to pass this government takeover of health care, theyre willing to trample the historic role and rules of the sena...

The immigration battle thats heating up here in the united states. >> plus, no salt in restaurant food? thats what one city is pushing, but we are going to hear from a top chef who wants the government to stop telling him what not to eat. we are going to compare and contrast. >> fries? >> no salt. >> without salt theyre not as good. >> thats true, i pour a bunch of salt. >> the slowing on, majority rules, fair and balanced gets my vote, no reconciliation. >> where are the finger lakes. >> new yo...

It is now time for todays shuster showdown. president obama is dropping his plans for a trip to asia. house speaker nancy pelosi is putting democrats in her rearview mirror. reid is saying get ready for reconciliation, known as majority rules. now democrats are raising the stakes by tying student loans to the health care bill. in other words, anybody who votes against the bill will face the charges in november of also having opposed helping young americans go to college. as for the republica...

The next step is to bridge the differences between the two bills so the president can get something on his desk to sign. in order to do that two things will happen. first the house will pass the senate version of the bill and then there will be a small package of tweaks to that bill that will be passed by the democrats under majority rules. all appearances are its going to happen. there are things the republicans can do to yell and scream about it. there are ways they can try to slow it down. th...

Bills so the president can get something on his desk to sign. in order to do that two things will happen. first the house will pass the senate version of the bill and then there will be a small package of tweaks to that bill that will be passed by the democrats under majority rules. all appearances are its going to happen. there are things the republicans can do to yell and scream about it. there are ways they can try to slow it down. there are epithets they can scream at it and crowds to be whi...

Amendme amendment, but that is a distinct difference between whether we should pass things with 51 or 60 votes. t the minority party in congress is the 60 votes. >> and the concept, madisons concept that the senate was going to be used -- what did he say the saucer -- >> the saucer, right. >> that has a very important role, but were going from a 67-vote, majority needed to kill filibuster, to 60, and i suspect it may be majority rules sooner or later. and if it is, my prediction, mika, it will b...

>> larry: whats wrong with majority rules? >> well, because thats not how the senate works. the senate works with 60 votes. now what the president is promoting is nuclear option, which is 50 votes. so we should have an up or down vote. >> larry: but it used -- it used that majority rules on the bush tax cuts, was 51 votes. >> well, the house uses straight majority rule, the senate doesnt. what this would mean, larry, is the senate has to break their own rules in order to pass the bill. >> larry:...

And now what the president is promoting is a nuclear option, which is 50 votes. so we should have an up or down vote. >> larry: but it used -- it used that majority rules on the bush tax cuts, was 51 votes. >> well, the house uses straight majority rule, the senate doesnt. what this would mean, larry, is the senate has to break their own rules in order to pass the bill. >> larry: and thats wrong? >> oh, i think so, sure. >> larry: and congressman grayson, why do you think they should break this ...