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Online voter registration, which the majority of states have, but we can't even get a hearing on in the state of texas. so this baseline bill would provide for more access. the problem in texas is that they reduce the access and then after they reduce the access, they do other things to make it even more difficult to vote as far as things such as what they talked about earlier this week when they talked about if you don't recall which form of i.d. you use when you registered, whether it was the last four of your social security or your drive's license if you registered 20, 30 years ago and you...

Happening. polly hooper, josh lederman know a lot about this. molly, because you cover capitol hill. you've been talking to people about this. garrett talked about this time line. >> yes. >> optimistic is like a nice way of putting it. this is coming up really quick. >> it is coming up really quick. and again figuring out what baseline bill will be is key. if they start off with the bill that president trump wants, mcconnell says okay from there we can offer amendments to that. ostensibly there can be an offer to take out the family migration piece or x, y, z piece. but it depends on what the ...

>> >> shepard: did he not anticipate that more moderate senators may think this is not enough for people, the medicaid cuts were too much or more conservative members want more or less government. is he trying to say, let's not do anything, and blade the democrats. >> you're at the polls here. your moderates on one side, who don't like it, get more conservatives on the other side i don't like it. the republican whip said every time you get one bullfrog in the wheel barrel, another one drops out. that's a process. yet moderates like susan collins on the fence, and then you have conservatives on...

Markets are always poised for perfection here and that this thing has to go off without a hitch. so the gorsuch hearing go off with out a hitch and the tax cuts go off without a hitch. if this stumbles, then all of that stumbles too. do you agree? >> a little bit. i think they're both right. i think there's an opportunity for secrecy to get the committees to do their job, to get a baseline bill out there. eventually include all the various members of this house and senate. i think rand is right as well. i think the approach that he should have hopefully we'll start to make is he should be work...

>> we should cut off every penny of taxpayer funds. >> reporter: senator rand paul introduced an amendment today that would halt federal funds going to planned parent hoot. the white house doesn't want to do that. >> you've heard me take a pretty dim view in the past of ideological writers that are unrelated to the -- to the baseline bill. >> reporter: other democrats are now pushing to portray planned parenthood officials who didn't know they were being recorded as victims with several house democrats asking the attorney general to quote investigate whether any laws were broken by individuals...