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The door for mcconnell to put something on the floor they could not support. there seems to be a shift in the conversation around what mcconnell said on the floor this morning where he committed to a neutral process with open amendments and said that he would make no commitments on the base text of the bill. so that's essentially code for, okay, i will be open to adjusting that text in a way that will fulfill this promise that i am making instead of saying -- it was framed to me by one source as just forcing a bill from tom cotton, he's become something of a villain in democratic eyes througho...

Deal with the situation. the vote is scheduled today. we'll move forward on on it. i'm comfortable looking at the base text and now i have to make a common sense decision on behalf of the people we represent in western new york. >> so because we don't have a cbo score, and you guys, in all fairness, could wait. you could wait just like your speaker demanded that democrats wait until they had a cbo score in 2009 on obamacare. you could wait to vote. you're not going to do that. have you the momentum, you think you have votes, you're going to vote today. are you then comfortable with knowing the...

The actual base text, the actual legislation as i read it and look at it, and as we go through this process, i think the pre-existing condition, as president made clear, will be in these reforms as we get it signed into law. >> how do you know how many people with pre-existing conditions will be covered without a cbo score? >> you know, obviously, we have the base score that cbo is out there. when you get into scoring, especially at congressional budget office, making assumptions as to what state will apply for a waiver, which will not, that's all speculative, at best, in my opinion. >> but th...

>> what they're also saying is according to the cbos marking of the last bill, you know, more folks will remain insured under the current plan than under the last plan you guys put forward. however, do you see the urgency that the white house needs to seemingly get this done at least through the house by the 100-day mark. if you have been engaged activity will these conversations over the break and you don't know what the text is, why the rush? >> well, the rush isn't -- there is not necessarily a rush, but the bottom line is we ought to be able to come up with solutions that are going to work...