i totally accept that. you just saw a majority of the house five times in the past two weeks, a joert of the house of representatives passed bills that either defunded, delayed obama care, stopped the medical device tax five different times. members of congress. there s enormous majority support in congress plus all the senators who vote for it, republican senators, majority of the house. then why are you afraid of a vote on the house floor up or down about the no strings attached? why are you afraid? there s no fear. the point is there s no leverage left. you don t believe here s the thing. you say you re a majority movement but don t believe in majority rule in the house of representatives. why is that? why can t you have a clean vote, let everybody if you re a democrat, republican. pass a bipartisan support and the government would open up. why would they give up their leverage? because they believe it democracy maybe, i don t know. because they believe it democracy
as difficult as this is, two weeks from today, if the country doesn t raise that debt ceiling, who knows what the impact will be on the value of the dollar, the u.s. economic recovery, whether the country goes back into recession. we re hearing all sorts of doom and gloom scenarios out there if the debt ceiling isn t raised two weeks from today. the country runs out of money presumably and so there are a lot of issues at stake. but it seems that more and more, more moderate republicans are saying look, we can t be controlled by the conservative base of our party anymore, we re willing to vote on a continuing resolution with no strings attached. is that true? because we hear different numbers of republicans. we hear some people say john boehner has enough republican votes in the house right now for such a thing to pass. then we hear from others that no, no, doesn t. from your perspective, what s true? what s true is that if the speaker, a huge if, decided to put that to a vote on th
what s happening here. the republicans passed a temporary budget for two months at a funding level that we as democrats think it s way too low because we re not providing help for more small businesses doing more for early childhood education and doing more to rebuild the infrastructure and while we re still figuring out this budget, we re prepared to go ahead and take the republican budget levels that they proposed. so the senate passed that with no strings attached and not because it had anything the democrats wanted and it had very little of what the democrats wanted, and we said let s go ahead and make sure other people aren t hurt while negotiations are still taking place. and we know there are enough republicans and democrats to vote in the house of
what do we know more about? reporter: i think what you saw is what it was, which was not very productive at all. it s the big difference between tonight and what we ve seen over the past few weeks is the only difference is they were actually talking to each other eyeball to eyeball as opposed through us in the media. it did not go well in terms of any kind of movement at all. maybe the only benefit is that they did actually express themselves to one another and maybe that could crack the stalemate in the future, but so far, it didn t work. there are now several moderate house republicans who changed their mind, right, saying they are willing to pass a clean bill with no strings attached. would they actually have the numbers to do that at this point if john boehner allowed it? reporter: with all conversations i had with moderate republicans, they have the numbers but to be honest, they don t have the will and that s a different thing. what i mean by that is a lot of people say the
you gave an exemption for obama care to big businesses, why don t you give it to the rest of americans as well? while you re at it, mr. president, there shouldn t be a gold plated health care system just for the house, the senate, for you and your appo t appoint appointees. we should live under the same system we put on all merge americans. tim huelskamp, thank you for coming. president obama says the government shutdown will end as soon as the house speaker john boehner allows the house to vote on a clean bill to keep the government funded with no strings attached. will the speaker do that? a better question, can he do that? what s going on? life with crohn s disease or ulcerative colitis