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Again going to put forth in just a few minutes, actually? they're going to say why not fund things like clinical trials at nih and take care of the kids? why not go ahead and pass that sort of resolution and fund that program? >> look, that's tempting but we will pick winners and losers and again, we set a precedent that we can piecemeal solutions in the situation where we just ought to open the government. it's very easy, the senate sent a bill over to the house on a number of occasions. let the house vote. we all know if the house voted, if it was a fair vote, it would pass by a significant ...

The legitimate democratic citizenship of the united states? that's absurd. and you're getting to the point where you're -- you have to look these gang of eight senators in the eye and say, do you believe we're a nation of immigrants or not? do you believe immigration enriches our economy and pat ramone or not? are you trying to get in "time" magazine, like chuck schumer, this week is the master deal-maker. do you sell out the public policy interest to the country? >> the real practical question, we have been talking about immigration reform now for so long. we have seen it die in congress befo...

Probably likely that we won't get a deal before january 1st. but on january 3rd, the senate sends a bill over. where now we're voting on a bill to lower taxes. the norquist pledge becomes irrelevant. in fact, they comply with the norquist pledge by voting for a bill that would provide tax relief for 98% of americans. so i just think this is a very difficult political situation on the republican side. you know, the speaker clearly knows that revenues have to go up. and he doesn't have the leverage now. and we're back into brinksmanship politics. but bottom line, the cliff is really much more a ...

Fund, to pay for current retiree benefits, which means they will be spending $5.5 billion less on retiree health care right now. that is a significant step forward and will help the postal service. furthermore, because the postal service was overpaying into overpaid into the retirement system, we brought them back another $11 billion, which will also help them. so we made some progress in those areas. >> all right. congressman darrell issa, who is the lead sponsor on the post office bill over in the house, he called the senate bill wholly unacceptable and it's going to be dead on arrival in th...

Service paying $5.5 billion every single year, which is really quite crazy. no other entity in america comes anywhere close to having that kind of burden. what we did is two things. we reduced the $5.5 to $3.5, but we also said the postal service can take $3.5 billion -- $3 billion, i'm sorry, out of the fund, the employee retirement fund, to pay for current retiree benefits, which means they will be spending $5.5 billion less on retiree health care right now. that is a significant step forward and will help the postal service. furthermore, because the postal service was overpaying into overpa...