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Vice president cheney. maybe it wasn't the best way to deal with these people. >> gregg: can championshiply hurtt, thank you very much. >> julie: most folks have to live by a budget and uncle sam has to do the same. president obama in his weekly address praising lawmakers for passing a measure that aims to bring federal spending under control. the new rule require that congress has to pay for what it spends now. critics say it ignores the biggest issue, cutting away, waysful spending. so why is the president doing pay as you go budget rules. they both favor pay-go. they signed pay-go into la...

Sunlen, let's start with you. where do we start at this point? final steps in the house? >> final steps today, erica, in the house after they're doing essentially a revote. they passed this through on the house side yesterday, but they are having to do it again, unanticipatu unanticipatedly, because of a last-minute procedural glitch. there were some changes made senate side, some provisions had to be tweaked and stripped out of because of the senate budget rules. that happened. so the house has to pass a mirror image of the bill. that is why they are voting again today in the house and it cer...

>> democrat slamming it. >> the republican tax bill is like pouring gasoline on a raging fire and though the republican propagandists college passage a political victory, a year from now republicans will be running away from this bill in shame for voting yes. >> mitch mcconnell couldn't disagree more with this legislation. >> after eight years of slow growth and underperformance america is ready to take off, stock market is up, optimism is high, coupled with his tax reform, america is ready to start performing as it should have for a number of years. >> the senate had to make minor changes to ...

Following this moment during the senate debate. >> this tax cut causes a huge budget deficit to give money to the wealthiest people in the country, and creates a huge hole in the budget. who is going to fill the hole? not the lobbyist walking in and out of mcconnell's office 100 feet down the hall. >> republicans remain convinced that once the legislation is enacted, public perception will improve. >> if we can't sell this to the american people we ought to go into another line of work. >> and then 12 republicans voting no. >> the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. >> after the vote ...

Bill in its current form." keep in mind, for every senators demand, there has to be some trade-off to comply with budget routes, which forbid the tax packages from adding any more than $1.5 trillion to the deficit of the next ten years. despite all that, senate finance committee chairman orrin hatch remains confident. >> yes, i think it will get worked out one way or another but it's going to take good faith on both sides to be able to do it. you know, it's like anything else, we've got to get results and on to get the bill passed. >> here is a likely scenario now. after the conference report ...