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Covered. will support that bill. billionaires will only get a $40,000 tax break instead of the 57,000. that is not the compromise we are talking about. they really need some structural revision. second suggestion for our republican colleagues to work with us. abandon the closed-door, seeker process. go to regular order. have committee hearings. allow amendments. go back to the idea that you need 60 votes, bipartisan majority to pass a bill, we can start over again and work together, and try to get some improvements in our health care system. if our republican colleagues stick to this base bill...

Is the funding fcr, the on the base bill as another point of leverage, the other is a debt ceiling. we do not get much done without leverage, there are too many people who do not want to make dramatic changes. >> and some conservatives are expected to vote no, democratic votes will be needed. some of them are complaining to be asked to help out. >> the only time they come to democrats is when their own caucus is so fractured that they cannot govern and they come and thank us for support. we are starting to see that chatter on the debt ceiling. i mean, they control everything. and yet they seem...

Base bill as another point of leverage, the other is a debt ceiling. we do not get much done without leverage, there are too many people who do not want to make dramatic changes. >> and some conservatives are expected to vote no, democratic votes will be needed. some of them are complaining to be asked to help out. >> the only time they come to democrats is when their own caucus is so fractured that they cannot govern and they come and thank us for support. we are starting to see that chatter on the debt ceiling. i mean, they control everything. and yet they seem fundamentally unable to govern...

Care, i think, is important. there do need to be mavth signals to which people can respond. when you look, really, at the substance of the bill, remember, too, that a governor would have to ask for a waiver for those figures that you were talking about earlier, a governor would have to ask for a waiver out of the essential health benefits and the community rating aspects of our base bill. are any governors going to do that? i have not heard from any who will. they have the option and some members felt very strongly that there didn't need to be more flexibility for the governors. they will now ...

>> yeah. the base bill was read in committee a month ago when it was marked up in that 28-hour markup. the amendments, of course, have been -- two of the three have been available for several weeks and the last amendment that was available last night was two pages. so, yes, those -- i have read all of those. >> and what do you think of it? >> how are you feeling about them? >> look, i am a member of the authorizing committee that went through the 28-hour markup a few weeks ago and i thought we had a good product that the committee produced. remember, too, that this bill was actually passed in ...