that they re going to put back to work over several hundred thousand workers in defense. we voted yesterday in order to fund our federal employees, retroactively, i think we agree on that piece. so we don t know how this is going to end, i can tell you the lid is on the pressure cooker, the pressure gets turned up every day and there was an unanimous effort in the house yesterday to fund our federal employees. we will march down that line a piece at a time, opening up as many pieces of government as we can because all republicans have voted to fund every aspect of government, except obama care. so let s see where this gets to the point where we get down to the end, one piece at a time, one move at a time, on this gamut we talked about. and i don t understand where so the only reason we re not fully funding government right now, because the majority of the house no strings attached, is because of a fraction in the house of representatives.
now, democrats would say we do support those things. we just want to fund the government all at once. we want the house and republicans, the house of representatives to pass to bring to the floor of the house this spending bill that would reopen the doors of the government with no strings attached. listen to minority leader nancy pelosi and what she had to say after the vote today. right now enough republicans have publicly stated their support for a bill that could pass and be on the president s desk today. we re asking the speaker in our letter to bring up the vote to the floor for those republicans and more to show that there is a bipartisan what majority to end republican government shutdown. so there you heard her call this the republican government shutdown. that s part of the messaging battle that both sides are playing here. but i should mention that this is no change, no difference from what we ve been hearing for the
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congress make up their own minds and they can show the american people, are you for a shutdown or not. reporter: in an exclusive interview with cnn s dana bash, senate leader harry reid revealed he and boehner originally struck a deal that included spending cuts. you re saying he told you, that he would pass a clean bill with no strings attached, particularly on obama care? that s why we did it. that s why we agreed to that lower number. that s one of the largest compromises since i ve been in congress. that was a big deal, $70 billion just like that. and he couldn t deliver. reporter: if that account is the accurate, it just shows you that house speaker john boehner s initial intentions were thwarted by a conservative contingent, chris, in the republican party who i can pretty much guarantee you will not be happy to hear that their speaker may have been cutting this private deal. there s already some suspicion there, even just over his previous closed door discussions with the w
that said i carelessly misrepresents speaker boehner s work on behalf of the american people. the house republicans are trying to move forward on the bills continuing a strategy that will address situation this is critical statements. these 11 bills are coming up and covering everything from nuclear security and expected to pass the house and so far harry reid has been unable to take em up in the senate. they should agree to fund the entire government and not pick winners and losers. marcia blackburn, good morning. good morning, chuck. i want to start with the various speculation that is out there about what house republicans might agree to do today. there seems to be growing group of moderate republicans who say they would support a clean funding bill, no strings