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Shift from lawmakers who might be playing politics to judge whether or not they need to cast a vote with their leadership, for the bill, or with their constituents if they come from a part of the country where a lot of voters dont like this and we know particularly in the case of these more conservative swing districts democrat there are a lot who are worried voters back home will resent it should they pass it. >> bret: and our understanding is that if it pass tonight it goes to the president, a...

>> reporter: im here. hi, wolf. >> explain to our viewers in easy to understand house rules for dumbies, if you will, what passage of this rule means. >> reporter: heres generally what it means. first of all, lets start with the senate. in the united states theres no such thing. its a free-flowing thing when something is brought to the senate floor. its not so in the house. every time you see a piece of legislation debated on the house floor, before that happens the legislation goes through the ...

Back with legislative differences. these are democrats who carried the right to life ball in this whole debate through the last few months. well continue to do that. well work with our colleagues to get the job done. yes, sir? >> did the republicans offer motion to recommit, will you guys vote against it? >> well, what else is in there? >> there you have it. bart stupak, democratic congressman from michigan saying hes going to vote in favor of health care reform. you saw half a dozen of his coll...

Abortion-related issue on the floor and if that passed, which would be possible, that could really gum up the work. as one senior democrat had said to me just the other day, why not do this on our terms, not their terms? so that might be part of the calculous in making this deal with bart stupak even though they may not have had to. >> just walk us through that. it gets a little complicated. this motion to recommit. that would happen after the house passes the senate version, after the house pas...

I was talking to the republican leader a while ago. they had a lot of different options they were debating. that was one of the concerns. >> its clear they dont have the votes to pass that motion to recommit, right? they would just do it to try to embarrass the democrats? >> reporter: thats right. most of the issues, it is very unlikely that they would get enough votes to pass anything. abortion was the one issue, wolf, because it splits democrats, that the democratic leadership was concerned th...

Welcome back. were watching whats happening on the floor of the house of representatives. only a little bit more than an hour or so away from the actual roll call on the senate health care bill. we expect it will pass. they need 216 votes. they got 224 on a passage of a rule allowing this debate to go forward. so given that vote, it looks like the democrats will win tonight, send the senate bill to the president. they still have a reconciliation bill they have to deal with as well. were watching...

>> appreciate that, caroline. >> you look at this thing, beginning around one oclock this afternoon. make sense this have, whats next. >> first the start off, a lot of little votes nicknamed bed check votes. everyone has to come to the floor and cant hide out in the offices and leadership can make sure where everyone stands and are you with us, a few hours later where the important stuff happens, theyll vote on the senate bill and then reconciliation probably wrapping up early evening and that c...

Who are opposed to abortion? >> reporter: i apologize. i didnt hear every word. its a bit loud. i think you were asking about a motion to recommit. the republicans feel this is an opportunity to highlight where the differences are. and to hopefully pull off an extra vote or two. what we have seen is that the democrats going down the wire, theyre certainly predicting they want a victory. theyve said that or weve heard theres a report that nancy pelosi said we cant have 216. we need 217 or 218. we...

When republicans tried to scuttle that bill with a motion to recommit, democrat anthony weiner decided he had heard enough. >> you know, you got to love these republicans. i mean, you guys have chutzpah. the republican party is a wholly owned subsidiary of the insurance industry. thats the fact. they say that, well, this isnt going to do enough, but when we propose an alternative to provide competition, theyre against it. they say that, well, we want to strengthen state insurance commissioners a...

Explanation from wellpoint about its plans to institute huge rate hikes, not merely in california, proposed 39% rate increase there, but also in at least ten other states where it has subsidiaries. chairman waxman of the house energy and commerce committee revealing that his investigators had found internal wellpoint documents which proved the company was raising premiums merely to pad its profits to a target of 7%. yesterday at a hearing in california a company executive having testified that t...