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>> and so dana, house speaker nancy polices was one that kucinich mentioned. however, she still has in her back pocket this possible deem pass maneuver as opposed to allowing to count how many democrats were really onboard. >> reporter: thats right. this is something that we called the self-executing rule, but its really unclear and it doesnt really seem as though that is going to change many of the votes and really what were looking at now to move the ball forward even further to make some of t...

Put it in the rule and it gives you a little cover. but you have republicans saying, dont trick us, dont try to fool us. in the rule, we know its the senate bill and were going to hit democrats with passing the senate bill with a lot of unpopular stuff in it. but democrats are standing by it, saying look at the overall package we are passing, not the senate bill, were changing this bill. >> i remember years ago talking about the news business and i wonder if we ever thought wed be sitting here d...

Pare it down with the changes bill. so, what they are doing is taking something called a rule, sort of a procedural vote, normally it doesnt do a whole lot, members of congress vote on it and they say, hey, were going to debate for this long, but what theyre doing is theyre rolling the senate bill into the rule, and here im going to -- ill staple it together, so we can make it official. its stuck in there. and then they would vote on the rule which would deem that the senate bill is passed and t...

They are pledging to keep them near zero for an extended period in order to feed the economic recovery. but as the economy improves, the fed will need to start increasing interest rates to fend off inflation. you can still get a house for about 5% on a 30-year, fixed mortgage. a move to pass the health care bill through the house without a direct vote. lawmakers are expected to vote this week on the $875 billion overhaul approved by the senate, the problem is the democrats are struggling to fi...

Committee. they are planning to bring a rule that say if you vote for the rule, youve voted for the bill. thats never happened in the history of this country, and, again, it undermines the rule of law and the american people will not stand for it. >> now, its not entirely true, in fact, its not true at all that it hasnt happened in the history of the country. weve found a few examples of where its happened in 1993, in 1999, but clearly, the republicans are not interested in this. >> reporter: ye...

Allege abuse. he wanted to handle it in a transparent way. that revelation then sort of set fire to the situation. and now what we have is a national scandal engulfing germany that is in in ways very familiar with the pattern of earlier scandals in other places such as united states. obviously,the new element in the german story line, ali, is, of course, this question of the popes own rule as a diocese and bishop in the late 70s and early 80 sglz this is where the question comes in. maybe i didn...

Self-executing rule which will then deem the senate bill to have been passed. but not ever having had an up or down vote on it this is alice in wonderland stuff. this twilight zone. as i read article 1 section 7 of the constitution, it says a law shall have passed the house and the senate. not shall have been deemed to have passed. its because here the democrats are about to change the sixth of the american economy and demanding ostensibly up or down vote but are so unwilling to actually have it...

On it? >> reporter: well, they would do this through the rules committee, its a practice known as deeming or whats called a self-executing rule. congress has been doing stuff like this for hundreds of years, and back in the 70s and 80s it got kind of acute. in the rules committee of the house, completely controlled by the majority -- in this case the house democrats -- can essentially say that when they put together the language to deal with the reconciliation package, the package of fixes, they...

Arent sure that the senate will, in fact, keep its promise as part of the reconciliation to make the changes that they promised. so the ways doing that two step. house votes and once the house votes, then the senate gets to consider and make the possible amendment. under the slaughter deal, the house wouldnt have to make -- take that step. they could say no, we were just looking at the rule and they could hold it in awayance. >> juan, juan. if republicans were doing, this you would be doing a wa...

Security or medicare did something for the american people. >> bret: senator mitch mcconnell the minority leader in the senate says you will be history if you vote for this bill, charles. >> i was just smiling. i wasnt laughing outloud. i was being polite. the guy will have to be remembered because he wont be around. look, the reason that pelosi sounded relatively uncertain is because there are two problems. do you have enough votes in the house to pass the senate bill as is? and i think she may...