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Clear possibility that the house clears this next week. that clears the way for the ways and means committee both to release the tax form bill and the timetable for the mark-up. so the first action in 31 years since president reagans reforms in 1986, that begins very quickly. >> bill: could it be, then, that americans see whats in it for them in a week? what are the brackets, whats in it for them, why should they support it? when will that be public? >> it all pivots off the budget when that is ...

Of them dont actually care what it is theyre doing. >> when you defeat a bill by one vote in the senate it -- every vote is a decisive vote and most cast last time by john mccain and this is what he told politico today. nothing has changed. if mcconnell wants to put it on the floor, thats up to mcconnell. i am the same as before. i want the regular order. asked if that means he is a no vote mccain said i want the regular vote and i want the regular order. and near -- what does that mean? >> well...

Mccain was asked where he stood on this bill. what did he say? >> process. process process process. they can focus as much as they want but if they dont get senator mccain along this bill fails as well. hes made clear from that july speech on the floor one he came back to now. he believes this bill should move through committee, mark up, then the floor, house and conference. his concern haves not been addressed at all. im told senator mccounsel made a request to the chair next year, hold a meeti...

Asked if that means he is a no vote mccain said i want the regular vote and i want the regular order. and near -- what does that mean? >> well, if this is not regular order. let me just say again, there is not going to be a cbo score. thes not going to be an official referee. we have data points, like billions of dollars that will be lost by arizona and alaska and other states. but theres no regular order for this. theres no mark-up. this is just jammed through as julie said. let me say three pe...

Side. four or five of us huddled around him, and he had a question about the third rule. that is, we were contesting or potentially contesting the last section of the eight-page bill saying it didnt seem to fit the rules. we told him we would set that aside. he asked some questions about whether we would be willing to proceed to the defense authorization act and facilitate that so that we didnt have a long drawn out mark-up of that act on the floor. we said we were happy to do that. that felt pr...

Like he have one else was. >> yes. and in the middle of it, john mccain came to the democratic side. four or five of us huddled around him. he had a question about the bird rule. we were contesting potentially the last section of the eight-page bill saying it didnt seem to fit the rules. we said we would set that aside. he asked questions about whether we would be willing to proceed to the defense he authorization sxakt facilitate that so we dont have a long drawn out mark-up of it. we said we w...

Like he have one else was. >> yes. and in the middle of it, john mccain came to the democratic side. four or five of us huddled around him. he had a question about the bird rule. we were contesting potentially the last section of the eight-page bill saying it didnt seem to fit the rules. we said we would set that aside. he asked questions about whether we would be willing to proceed to the defense he authorization act and facilitate that so we dont have a long drawn out mark-up of it. we said we...

Dont have a long drawn out mark-up of it. we said we were happy to do that. that felt pretty positive. it sounded like he was about to go with us. we still werent 100% sure. >> how did you and the democratic colleagues feel when this was all over? >> tremendous relief. we have been engaged with grassroots america saying we have to work with you. you have the ability to say what is really going on on the ground to your republican senators. that in fact expansion of medicaid is working really well...

Takes at least a few months. then the committee has what they call a mark-up of the bill in which all of the members of the committee both parties are allowed to offer amendments and get votes on those amendments to the bill. and then that bill, final version of it, is voted out of the committee and then brought to the senate floor and then the majority leader calls for debate on the senate floor of the bill that came out of the committee and oont he n the senate floor, everyone gives their unan...

Were getting nothing done. >> regular order means a bill is introduced in the senate, parliamentarian refers that bill to the committee with jurisdiction over it, which in this case of health care would be the senate finance committee. that committee holds hearings on the legislation which usually takes at least a few months. then the committee has what they call a mark-up of the bill in which all of the members of the committee both parties are allowed to offer amendments and get votes on those...