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Beneath the president of the united states. let's talk about the facts, not talk about personal attacks. >> i agree completely. let's stop calling people not members of our country, when they are, that's a fact. >> mr. cummings? >> they blocked granting medicaid. they're cutting over $771 billion for medicaid, giving it to some governors who will already cash strapped. and a lot of people will - when the need is the greatest, will not get the assistanassistance. we can do better. >> thank you. >> fellow americans -- >> didn't ask for that. >> my fellow americans. elijah cummings of maryland. n...

For the "discovery." as for the remaining shuttles 21 other museums have put their names in for it. it marks the 30th anniversary of the first launch in 1981. president obama and speaker boehner closed the budget deal to avert a government shutdown but the votes still need to be counted on capitol hill. a vote is scheduled on the house floor wednesday and that's when we're going to find out who is really behind the bipartisan agreement to keep the cuts and to keep the government running. nbc's luke russert covers capitol hill and joins me now. this will need votes from both sides. could be...

>> well i think it absolutely does. as you know i am a part of the freshman class and 87 of my colleagues are republicans and more than half of them are members of the tea party and you know they've come under tremendous pressure. you've certainly covered it and so the question is will the republican leadership act in a responsible manner and fund the government until the end of the year? that is the appropriate thing to do. we have many pressing issues to deal with. we should stop this silliness frankly. >> what do you make of the 33 billion? boehner is saying out there today that 33 billion ...

$71 billion. it's ridiculous because it's a number that's not based on anything and the top economic experts including john mccain's adviser says that if we actually did what the republicans were calling for, we-dsht economy is recovering. we would slide completely back and it might even amount to 700,000 jobs that are lost so it's a crazy thing to do right now. >> what does this signal to the american people when canter comes out and says there won't be any more stop-gap spending yet you tell us tonight that the military spending is going to go to the end of the year. >> right. >> and they're...

Senators have been very clear on another $20 billion. that gets us around $71 billion. i always say, chuck, that if the distance between me and the other person are five steps, i don't mind taking three of them. i think if you look at this, we've taken more than three steps. we're trying to meet them more than halfway and they seem not to be willing to do a deal. >> okay. we'll get to the other side on that in a second. congressman clyburn, thanks very much. let's now go to republican congressman paul brown of georgia. congressman, i want to ask you this issue of this idea that maybe house rep...