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American people are saddled with this mess of it tax code. that's what's driving us, motivating us. it's delivering on the promise. we are losing jobs overseas. that's got to end. my belief is republicans believe we need a new tax code for a new era of prosperity in america, and we are acting on it. that's what makes this day such a historic day for the american people. >> bret: repealing the obamacare individual mandate, mr. chairman, would save $338 billion over ten years. some people say why not do that and use those savings to help reduce taxes on the middle class? >> at some point, as thi...

That time frame. our clock can't start ticking until we get the cbo score. but that increasings the prospect that we will be here. he will be here three more days. >> do you think it will be easier to get votes for health care by aattaching the student loan to the reconciliation? >> thank you for that question. right from the start, our budget instruction was about two bills that would o'clock reconciled, one -- that would be reconciled, one was health care and one was education. if i may step back for a moment, this goes back to our budget bill that we passed in the house, 100 days after the ...

Investments, first among equals, in health care. we have passed all three of those bills. two of them, the education bill and the health bill, were to be part of the reconciliation, so the budget bill we passed in the spring, the budget instruction, we received in the fall, was about the reconciliation would deal with those, reconciliation of education would bring us more savings and, of course, cost the taxpayers less and the students less for their student loans. so that has always been part of the plan. there was some question as to whether this would prevail in the senate until the senate ...