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Election. in their defense, their comeback would have to be i voted for it before i voted against it. >> i don't think that the democrats are going to see it that way. i don't want to get into the specifics, but the senate bill is there on your voting on amendments to the senate bill and eventually, it's a aemended bill that goes to the president. i don't think my colleague's going to be thinking much about other than what goes to the president. those provisions would come out. the problem is that a lot of the things that are not money related such as discriminatory practices, those types of t...

Also, they felt their bill was good, but their bill had poison pills, including reforms on employment benefits that would go down to 59 weeks. that had a lot of opposition among senate democrats as well as the pay fors. surt surtax. democrats dropped that. republicans wanted to have a freeze on federal workers' benefits. there's a lot of issues that people felt could not be done leading up until january 1st, when the issue, 160 working million americans would see a tax increase. that's why you saw the two-month extension. they want to have this week to keep on dealing. >> do a little pregame s...

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Are mccain and the other republican senators prepared to block the authorization act over this? if the white house and the democrats were to back down and punt on the dream act, how damaging would that be? >> i think that we need to get to the department of defense bill first. then if they have an issue with any of these amendments, they should take that vote and make clear where they stand on it. for the latino electorate, we'll look at who's willing to vote for progress and who's saying no to everything? i think the question of ought to be called. they ought to demonstrate if they are going ...