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Everybody gets advantage of these things. >> that is the mission. >> this is a sad thing that there is this conflict. i think it is almost like beckett and history, this conflict between church and state and it ain't simple. >> i think we can fix this and i hope the president does. i think expanded contraceptive coverage can be offered and even to employees of objecting religious organizations but we should just not require the objecting religious organizations themselves to pay for and offer that. i think there are other ways to solve this problem. >> the irony though is that the very strongl...

Provisions. and when we show them what the priorities now that have been boiled down this is a much smaller bill than what was started with. what has been boiled down to, what it means to them as they sit 'round their kitchen table, rather than us sitting around a table at blair house, i think that we will have a very positive result. it will be great for the american people. >> you -- you know that because you have heard from some of these house members, i'm sure, who come to you and say i can't live with this or i'm getting nailed back in my district for this, it is going to be a bit of a ch...

Filibuster, you would only need 51. the reconciliation bill would be -- think of it has the fixes. in other words, the things that the house members don't like in the senate bill and they have been doing some negotiating on, the reconciliation, some people call it a side car would be the fixes to that. so it won't be the entire health care bill, but it would be many significant changes from what we have seen so far. even though everybody says simple majority, as you well know, candy, it ain't simple. >> and it's not simple in the house, either. i think -- i asked six ways from sunday, do you h...

Fairness of it. just because it has been used before for lesser issues doesn't mean it is appropriate for this issue. you had senator bird himself and the president pro tempore of the senate, former democratic majority leader saying within the last year, to use this device for something like health care would be an outrage which must be resisted. that's a democrat, candy. that's not republicans. there are a number of other democrats that don't think something of this magnitude ought to be jammed down the throats of a public that doesn't want it through this kind of device. >> you heard speaker...

Began way saying we are smarter than you are, americans, we are going to give this to you whether you want it or not. >> given -- you mentioned the polls a couple of times. you mo, the "newsweek" lives and breathes on polls. they are always important. one of the calculations here when people are looking at this, the critics of the republican party say that the reason they are doing this is they have looked at those polls and they don't want to give the president a break. they don't want to move forward for this country because they believe this is an issue that will win them seats in november....