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Victory. >> just a final house vote away from landing on the president's desk for signature. >> we're making it so simple that you can almost nine out of ten taxpayers can do their taxes on a form like a postcard. >> if we can't sell this to the american people, we ought to go into another line of work. >> it's an all-out looting of america. the robbery of the middle clatss. >> it is not tax reform. it is a heist. >> can we have order, mr. president? >> the senate will be in order. >> this is serious stuff. we believe you're messing up america. you could pay attention for a couple of minutes. ...

From this bill in shame. >> mitch mcconnell disagrees saying this means america is ready to soar. >> after eight years of slow growth and underperformance america is ready to take off. stock market is up, optimism is high. america is ready to start performing as it should have a number of years. >> reporter: the senate made changes to fit their budget rules, therefore the house will have to vote again around noon on this modified version but it is a done deal because we will see. all eyes on whether a press conference happens and we may see the president unwrapping his promised christmas prese...

Around 11:00 p.m. it's a foregone conclusion in terms of the votes. but procedural issues have popped up because of the budget rules. republicans are using this to pass by a simple majority. there are provisions that will be stripped out because the house passed a different version, that means the senate will have to send the bill back to the house. the house will then pass the bill again tomorrow morning. at this point it's just adding a couple hours to where everybody knows this is going to end up. but for republicans who were planning on celebrating tonight, they have a couple more hours to...

Andrea. the house speaker joking, hey, we had so much fun yesterday, we thought we would do it again today, but the reality is a couple of the provisions in the bill didn't meet the rules set out by the senate. they, of course, wanted to pass it with just 51 votes here instead of 60, and that means they had to comply with very strict budget rules. they found a couple that didn't meet the criteria, so here we are, play it again, sam. we did this yesterday. we'll see another moment shortly, i think, from the house speaker paul ryan. and i think this really starts not only a period of grappling f...

Grow the economy, to give people more freedom. and nancy pelosi and folks like her come to washington to grow the government. that is fundamentally the difference. >> democrats are still smarting that the gop never tried to collaborate with them on the tax package. they're trying to shine the spotlight on parliamentary problems that slowed the majority down. the whole reason the house has to vote again today is because senators bernie sanders and ron wyden complained that certain education provisions broke budget rules and the name of the bill didn't comply, either. so once those things were s...