republican congressman tim holtz camp who was with ted cruz for enchilada night. said anybody who would vote for that would garantee landestine meeting in the basement of for tiera coast, met to see what house speaker john boehner had planned. we know the morning meeting began with funeral parlor owner turned congressman steve sutherland of florida led his fellow republicans in singing amazing grace. the vitter amendment which amounts to a salary cut for lawmakers and their much less
came out and said that it doesn t do anything to obama care and it put a lot of heat on the republicans in the house; is that right? that may be true in part. a lot of people i talked to were supportive. quite frankly our amendment causes people not to support it members are going to have to pay more. there are members on our sidenned at democratic side who don t like that. i think it s helpful in terms of the fight against obama care. if you have a statute that imposes burdens on society and then politically connected can get delays, waivers, or what have you, then, it makes it more difficult to address the problems with the law. if the bill would come over from the house, would the vitter amendment, the so-called vitter amendment and had gone over to the senate, would have you expected senator harry reid would have put the vitter amendment, would have put the bill up with the vitter amendment for vote? no. he certainly would have tried to resist it or tried to get it out. in fa
me. looks politically bad. makes it very clear how determined they are to protect the political elite in washington. well, they say, what happens if they have a brain drain or something if that is if the vitter amendment is part of it. do you know what the people s reaction these are the brains that gave us obama care. these are the brains that are screwing up policy over and over and over again. so i guess we don t have to worry about that anyway, tomorrow we will see what happens in the house and the senate. thank you both. thank you. thank you for being with us tonight. stay with fox news channel on the latest from breaking news from capitol hill. he we will see you tomorrow night right here at our new time 7:00 p.m. eastern. don t forget to go to gretawire.com. we have put up a new poll you will want answered. a lot of open threads. talk about the debt ceiling and whether or not the vitter amendment is a good idea, a bad idea. whether or not you think congress is going
me. looks politically bad. makes it very clear how determined they are to protect the political elite in washington. well, they say, what happens if they have a brain drain or something if that is if the vitter amendment is part of it. do you know what the people s reaction these are the brains that gave us obama care. these are the brains that are screwing up policy over and over and over again. so i guess we don t have to worry about that anyway, tomorrow we will see what happens in the house and the senate. thank you both. thank you. thank you for being with us tonight. stay with fox news channel on the latest from breaking news from capitol hill. he we will see you tomorrow night right here at our new time 7:00 p.m. eastern. don t forget to go to gretawire.com. we have put up a new poll you will want answered. a lot of open threads. talk about the debt ceiling and whether or not the vitter amendment is a good idea, a bad idea. whether or not you think congress is going
effort. there s only one problem. senate democrats have made it clear, it has no chance of survival on the other side of the capital. i m joined now by democratic senator, john tester of monday. good afternoon, sir. even as you join us, your colleague, senator david vitter, was just is now debating the vitter amendment, which, of course, the house speaker plans to table as part of the condition for reopening the government, and for raising the debt ceiling. what s your reaction to the news today? pretty darn irresponsible, i ll tell you that. i mean, we re playing with fire. we ve talked about this for three weeks now, coming up on this debt limit. and for speaker boehner to come in with another one of his gimmickses that puts the whole faith and confidence of our government at risk, our economy in a tailspin in a day or two i think is about as irresponsible as you can get.