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First, carl cameron from capitol hill. you were going through the process and it doesnt seen unusual but its fraught with trouble. >> big time. its a fairly common practice and what the house democrats want to do is take the reconciliation package of fixes to the senate bill and work on it instead of working on the senate bill. now, a couple of problems. first theres no reconciliation language. they havent authored it and made it public. its behind closed doors. because of that theres no cost an...

Support this? republicans are being critical of democrats for ramming this through or attempting to ram this through, but president obama today was saying republicans have used that move in the past to ram through their legislation. >> i think it is disanalogous in at least one important way and parliamentarians will have to deal with some of the reconciliation language. yes, reconciliation has been used, not for something that is both this big and this much opposed by the american people. that ...

Politically and procedurally this so-called simple up or down vote is really very complicated. as one democratic source put it to me earthquake the presidents new pressure helps, but it doesnt guarantee health care will happen. dana bash, cnn, capitol hill. no guarantee at all lets talk strategy again with david gergen, bill bent and donna brazile. can can he get enough democrats to support this? republicans are being critical of democrats for ramming this through or attempting to ram this throu...

In the past to ram through their legislation. >> i think it is disanalogous in one important way and parliamentarians will have to deal with some of the reconciliation language. yes, reconciliation has been used, not for something that is both this big and this much opposed by the american people. that really -- >> oh, i disagree. >> politically, theres real j question as to whether they are better served by having this fail or pass. i think if it passes it is probably worse for them politically...

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