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Was the bipartisan vote. republicans and democrats opposed the bill. i think it will be a bipartisan vote to repeal the bill. it is interesting if one in four democrats vote to repeal the bill that is -- would allow us to override any veto the president might provide. >> greta: 34 democrats voted no last time around. we dont know how many are still in the house of representatives. theyve had a little shake-up. >> just a bit. >> greta: another thing happened today, the democratic leadership, sena...

Schumer and the chief opponent of this, tom coburn, from oklahoma. and one other republican, mike enzi this morning. this is where they agreed to this deal in principle. they said that the staff would go and actually write the legislative language and that would come back and make sure that all of the ts were crossed and is were dotted properly. we do expect this to be formalized and possibly be passed by the united states senate this afternoon, maybe even by unanimous approval by the united sta...

Its the money thrown out. well end the distraction of it had it bigoted policy. >> when the house passed its repeal yesterday, the white house put out a statement that applauded that. >> i will tell you i was a little disappointed. you know, i have to tell you, on the monday after the election, i spoke to the white house, the chief of the staff, to senators reid, durbin and schumer, weve got to get this done. there were a number of good things to do. you sometimes cant get them all done. the pre...

Foreign companies who get the benefit of a u.s. procurement contract and a fee on certain visas for foreign workers for companies that have more than 50% of foreign workers so the combination of those two fees gets us the money we need and we lowered the amount. mostly because we had a recent settlement where some costs are being defrayed through the settlement so we felt we could lower the amount so we lowered it from 7.2 billion to 6.2 billion and we think that mattered to bring that last bit ...

>> chris: will the bill pass? >> i think the bill will pass and i do believe that senators gil igrand and schumer are working night and day to make it happen. >> chris: he was blaming you for the filibusters, one of your objections is that harry reid put too many items on the agenda in the lame duck session. i want to play what you said and one of the first responders who now has cancer. >> it is impossible to all of the things that the majority leaders laid out without disrespecting the institu...

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Weve spent on illegal immigration. health services, thats education and jails. we just cant afford it anymore. thats it. were not being mean, were just saying it takes more than walk ago cross the border to become an american citizen. its whats in our souls. >> congressman hunter whose father once pointed to the glazed chicken as proof of the good treatment at gitmo is proposing overturning the part of the constitution that conservatives are so fond of citing as defense as liberal tyranny. the 1...

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Much and their souls are insufficiently unamerican. >> $10 billion and $20 billion weve spent on illegal immigration. health services, thats education and jails. we just cant afford it anymore. thats it. were not being mean, were just saying it takes more than walk ago cross the border to become an american citizen. its whats in our souls. >> congressman hunter whose father once pointed to the glazed chicken as proof of the good treatment at gitmo is proposing overturning the part of the constit...

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