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Opening this bill up to an amendment process, and nobody knows what's going to happen after that. i think this is not the way mitch mcconnell would have preferred to do business. he would have liked to have had a bill that people could vote on after this motion to proceed, but that's not the way it is, because republicans can't agree. and they haven't been able to dpr agree for years and years, so now they're going to have to figure out whether they can, and it's going to be -- it's going to be quite a process, but at least now the president will be able to get a vote at some point on some ver...

Process and let the voting take us where it will. so, that's what's before us. colleagues. will we begin the debate on one of the most important issues confronting america today? it's my hope the answer will be yes. mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that following the vote, senator mccain be recognized to speak for debate only for up to 15 minutes and that the time not count on hr 1628. >> is there objection? no objection heard. >> mr. president. i move to proceed to calendar number 120, hr 1628. >> clerical report. >> motion to proceed to calendar number 120, hr-1628 and an act

From over and we are about to have a really long couple of days here in the senate. >> i am glad you pointed it out in the context because i feel like we need to pump the brakes on just perspective of this whole thing. m.j., thank you so much. and phil mattingly is also up on capitol hill. and phil, just to you, i know you're in the thick of this scrum, maybe where some of these senators are coming out, or obviously voting now and we have the two "no" votes but in terms of pumping the brakes, yes, this is a super significant vote, this opens the floor for debate on this whole thing, but then o...

Told our m.j. lee off camera, he described this as something malpractice, and it's an expletive we can't use on television. essentially saying that this is a mysterious process that the republicans have engaged in and this is something that, you know, the american people should be upset and ashamed with, that this has all been done behind closed doors and that's true for the most part, all this negotiation has been done outside the eyes of reporters, outside the eyes of journalists, and been done behind closed doors. now, theoretically, that process should become a lot more open here over the ...

Senator heller vote has become a yes. >> reporter: yeah, this is really significant, brooke because dean heller was one of the first -- the first of this group of moderate senators that broke away from the pack when this initial run of the senate health care bill came before them and decided that he wasn't going to vote for it and when he initially backed away, that's when the first attempted passing something really fell apart so the fact that he has revealed in just the last half hour that he is indeed a yes on the motion to proceed, that he agrees that republicans need to get this bill to t...