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Year for america. the center for medicare and medicaid services say a record 2 million people visited the health care.gov website monday, december 23rd. and the obama administration is giving people who had difficulty enrolling on the federal exchange monday or tuesday another chance to get coverage starting january 1st. despite your best efforts. you might have run into delays caused by heavy traffic to health care.gov's maintenance periods or issues. with our systems that prevented you from finishing the process on time. if this happened to you -- don't worry. we still may be able to help ...

Sides are keeping score of last night's votes. for potential campaign fodder in 2014. joining me now, white house correspondent for the hill amie parnes and staff reporter for mother jones andy krul. good morning to both of you. andy, i'll begin with you. the senate working until gosh just like two hours ago. blistering through 70 amendments. so what was that about? and did anything significant happen? >> well, the significant thing that happened was the senate finally passed a budget of its own. it was led by senator patty murray. senate's first budget in four years. now, it is nonbinding, an...

All u.s. combat troops as i said were expected to be out of afghanistan by the end of 2014. joining us now by phone is nbc news chief pentagon correspondent jim miklaszewski. thanks so much for waking up early with us. >> absolutely, willie. >> how significant is this, number one? and number two, how surprising was it to you to hear leon panetta say it could be next year that the troops will be out of afghanistan? >> reporter: let's start with number two. nobody was surprised that the u.s. military was going to transition from full combat mode into a training assist mode once the afghan securi...