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Pass. but a lot of folks are saying it would be important to pass it with strong bipartisan numbers in the senate. it may give some folks in the house a little bit of cover. as for why the senate goes first, i have had some people tell me that it is a senate agreement that was brokered between harry reid and mitch mcconnell so it is appropriate that the senate goes first. and one guy actually told me that perhaps the house is tired of passing bills that die in the senate so let the senate actually take action first, shep. shep shep they are not actually getting exactly all they wanted here. re...

Know, you blindsided us because you actually decided that you wanted to try to move some legislation through that body. you know, which i think struck most of us as, gosh, isn't that something that the house is supposed to do? why would you feel blind sided when the house is doing something they are supposed to be doing. i think that type of inflammatory rhetoric being used by the democrats right now makes it harder for boehner to get the votes in the house. >> what is it that you think senator harry reid would like to see put on the senate floor within reason? what do you think should pass? >...

Year. we would, however, not be breaking the budget cuts -- the budget caps, rather, that were included in the budget control act. >> the forced budget cuts known as sequestration. dana bash reported earlier and i will tell you what she reported in case you missed it, you can tell us if we're correct or not correct, close, not close. january 15th, the government would be funded, december 13th, the house senate budget conferees would come up hopefully with some sort of deal, and that the debt ceiling would be raised until february 15th. are those accurate? >> well, those numbers and dates are v...

>> i think so. i think they got jumpy. probably -- no probably about it. they overreached. thankfully there are people on the democratic side of the aisle that realized, look, what's good for the goose is good for the gander. you can't be trying to change the law especially when we're talking about debt ceiling and government for the next year. typically those are moments when you try to make deficits shrink. that's what they have been used for. for the white house and some democrats to think, wait a second, we're going to break budget caps in addition to everything else, that's not realistic....

Markets react. as we said, the senate is now at the center of budget talks. we're joined by two leaders there trying to find a way to reopen the government and avoid a default. democrat joe manchin of west virginia and republican bob corker of tennessee. senators, welcome back to fox news sunday. as we sit here on sunday, senator corker, where are we? is there a deal in the offing? where are we? >> there was some movement a couple days ago. i think things are not moving now. a couple nights ago it looked like there was a way to go forward. i think the senate democrats have pulled back at the r...