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Difficulty of the main goal. >> i think the primary goal first is to give people freedom over their own health care choices and right now it is amazing to think in the center of obamacare is a requirement that every american by health insurance whether they wanted or needed or not. >> reporter: that is the centerpiece of the best shot republicans have of passing anything, the skinny repeal gets rid of the individual mandate and most of the obamacare taxes but getting to 50 vote seems elusive. de...

Afraid to use it. thank the remarks in an interview with npr days before the g.o.p. takes control of both houses of congress. president obama: there will be some areas where we disagree and i havent used the veto pen very often since i have been office partly because legislation that i objected to was typically blocked in the senate even after the house took over. republicans took over the house. now i suspect there will be sometimes i have to pull the pan out. >> republicans would need two-thir...

Serious, smart guy. well, it only worked in it the abstract. now that theyre having to put numbers to this budget, it does not work in the real world. even republicans are saying, we cannot do this. brian butler at tpm wrote a great piece underscoring this point that i recommend to people. essentially, the rubber is meeting the road for the republicans. they cant themselves make these cuts. >> what you hear a lot is this story line about how congress is failing. oh, my god, theyre not getting th...

Pass immigration reform, but they did do something that looked like that if you squint. they voted on a part of immigration reform thats seen as key to locking up republican votes for it. and the thing passed by a lot. it passed with 67 votes. and it could have been even more than that, had some known supporters not been stuck outside d.c. with flight delays and stuff. just a huge vote today that could have been even huger. and that bodes well for immigration reform passing the senate overall by...

And the thing passed by a lot. it passed with 67 votes. and it could have been even more than that, had some known supporters not been stuck outside d.c. with flight delays and stuff. just a huge vote today that could have been even huger. and that bodes well for immigration reform passing the senate overall by a really large margin. the beltway thinking here is if the margin by which this thing passes the senate is huge enough then even the republican-controlled house will feel like they have t...

Constraints of our constitutional republic. i almost had them on that crazy talk! now, some people who havent signed this, which is almost 500 of them, said, well, im still reading it. how much time do you need? you are a slow reader, youre going to have a hard time in congress because the bills are -- then they said, i havent had a chance to look it over. all right. ill give you more time. i havent had time to look it over. that actually is really good news, because i mean you wouldnt want cong...

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