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Bicameral system, if you will. if you want to run for congress and you're from the commonwealth of virginia, you have to go through the machinations that the commonwealth of virginia has set out to actually qualify for office. >> i get that, but there's a bigger question here, which is, how are you going to finance elections, if this amendment passes? and who's going to decide that? >> let me be clear. this amendment does not touch how you finance federal elections going forward. all it does is say you can't contribute money to an election. what do i think happens? federally -- >> so the idea,...

Nobody should have that kind of power. he did it before. he'll do it again. that's not how things should work in any republic in any democracy. >> congressman paul started this conversation some time ago. how do you view the momentum? >> i think momentum is against us. i need to make a correction. our bill actually did pass in the senate. it's in the house version. mel watt tried to undermine it but we beat him in the committee with the help of alan. the big question comes up very soon possibly tomorrow when bernie sanders offers his amendment and my understanding it will be the same as our am...

They couldn't get... bill: we are watching this today and lawmakers wrestling with the reconciliation bill, what they argued about, fixes and changes in law and a package of changes that were passed late on sunday night and republicans consider it their last chance to derail the massive overhaul and cannot filibuster under senate rules but can introduce as many amendments as they want, if any one of those amendment passes, they could send the whole big health care law back to the floor, of the house for a new vote. we're watching that, right now, senator coburn and john mccain on the floor, ri...

For these important programs with democratic ideas. >> majority whip durbin responded that in addition to blaming democrats, everything senator bunning did tonight he was given the chance to do last week. if bunning's amendment passes, durbin says the bill could still be delayed for weeks. >> he knows and i know that if we don't pass this bill as it passed the house of representatives -- if we make a change in it, we're destined to send it over to the house, to at a minimum wait several days or even longer for a conference committee to resolve his amendment. >> time now to call in msnbc politi...

Information collected by accident. >> i think it's unconstitutiona unconstitutional, hugely problematic and we are here to defend the rights of the american people. >> the bill exposed hup rift. >> if this amendment passes, kills the program, we go dark. 702 goes down. we don't know what the terrorists are up to. >> 702 was written to go after terrorists but it's being used to go after americans. that's why this bill violates the fourth amendment. >> chairman of the hostile adjustment he set a compromise was reached which included measures to protect the intelligence program and americans' pri...