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Right now. the house opened a rare saturday session this morning to vote on giving furloughed federal workers back pay and restoring funding to more chunks of the government. house republicans earlier this week already voted to restore fund to allow the national institutes of health to continue clinical trial, to reopen national parks, and to allow the district of columbia to continue operations. democratically controlled senate has refused to take up the piecemeal funding bills. the democrats a...

The republicans have already won. were funding at sequester levels. youve got it. congratulations. >> listen, sequester levels was a concession back in 2011, and a negotiation for 2011. were now in 2013. different matter -- >> not at all. let me -- [inaudible conversations] martha: hold on. it is my show, so im going to step in -- hold on. >> president obama -- martha: jason, jason! whoa, hold on. i want to get this in here, and i want to get to it. no way to run a country. youve got thomas jeff...

Could be paying more for years, decades to come. >> congresswoman diane damageette on last word on msnbc last night. she made the point coming from the democratic perspective she would agree to a clean cr, a clean continuing resolution for a matter of six weeks. beyond that she is not willing to go along. they have already embedded the sequester levels. so the republicans have really won the battle of the budget, the battle over spending. the social programs democrats care about have been gutted...

So we can all produce energy more safely. our commitment has never been stronger. the government may be shutting down, but eventually members of congress will have to reach an agreement over how to fund it, an agreement thats likely to include billions of dollars in indiscriminate spending cuts known as the sequester, which by the way, republicans should see as a victory. when the sequestration cuts went into place in march, the idea was that they would be so objectionable congress would negot...

Victory in saying we are keeping government spending at the sequester levels which really are too low. the fact is from now on there is nothing left to compromise on. because, it is not a concession for a member of congress to agree to open the government. thats what politicians are supposed to do. its not a concession to say, oh, i guess well vote for the government to pay its bills. and thats why you are seeing no action. and i think, it would be a terrible mistake to make any concessions now ...

Republicans. the republicans could have come out of this claiming a big victory in saying we are keeping government spending at the sequester levels which really are too low. the fact is from now on there is nothing left to compromise on. because, it is not a concession for a member of congress to agree to open the government. thats what politicians are supposed to do. its not a concession to say, oh, i guess well vote for the government to pay its bills. and thats why you are seeing no action. ...

Me is while were having this conversation, were not even talking about -- a number of democrats had concerns because it doesnt address sequester cuts. that argument has been put while we focus on not shutting the government down over this obama care sillyness. >> its a huge win for the tea party. even if the tea party were to implode as a result of whatever they do, lets say they freeze the global economy by busting through the debt ceiling, even if they do that, they have accomplished a change ...

Negotiation for both sides to come out with something. the president is not laying that framework very well. yes, they have to get together. they have got to say continuing resolution, debt ceiling, and the reason were talking about a short-term continuing resolution is because there still is going to have to be negotiation. thats what congress and the president have done since the founding of our constitution. >> wrote the president, let the president suffer from obama care. after scoring some ...

Principles. civil rights wasnt the right thing to do for this country, it wasnt passing a poll bill, yet it was the right thing to do. republicans believe obama is horrible. its about one thing, obstruct obama. >> nancy pelosi or other republicans would have voted against pelosicare or kerrycare. its not personal to obama. >> one of the reasons the senate has not acted in any way to fund government is because right now there is no democratic vote for a clean cr. >> you cant keep saying cr. >> a ...

Leadership and republicans close to leadership in this fight over the continuing resolution with the government opened, was they want to keep the low levels of funding set out by sequestration the government won in the last debt ceiling fight in 2011 t. whole obama push has been interfering with that. when this goes to the senate and harry weed read strips out the obamacare revision. what will le he do, he gets the chance to jam republicans in the house, not with a bill that defunds obamacare bu...