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Health insurance exchanges are set to open this coming tuesday, and then millions of americans are supposed to be able to sign up for health care coverage without the help of federal subsidies, but now lawmakers want the same rules to apply to them, to congress and the administration. chief national correspondent jim angle is in washington with more. >> many have been asking questions about obamacare. why aren't any officials in it? >> if it's something that the white house and the administration is saying this is great for the american people, then they need to come be a part of it. >> if the...

For everybody else. jim angle is on fox top story at the bottom of the hour for us live from d.c. jim, it's an aspect of the healthcare law that really hasn't gotten much attention. >> no, that's right, harris, many lawmakers have been asking a a pointed question about obama care, why aren't administration officials part of it? listen. >> if it is something that the white house and the administration is saying this is great for the american people, then they need to come be a part of it. >> the president thinks it's such a great idea that it should apply to him and his political appointees as ...

Authority to offer them, listen. >> why is this president carving out an exception that doesn't exist in the law and only make members of congress and their staff the beneficiaries of it. >> as far as i'm concerned, that's just made up out of thin air. a lot of conservatives rightly get upset when the obama administration does that by administrative fiat. >> now some worry about congressional staffers who might be hurt. but lawmakers are more determined that they have to participate if he they are going to demand that administration officials do the same. harris? >> jim, good to see you, thank...

Is that there will be subsidies for members about congress and some of their staffers. as they go on to these exchanges as government employees. question to you and the people working for you, will you take the subsidies as a member of congress? >> well, they had subsidies prior but what they did, they wrote out the health care law was writing out 70% of the bill, taxpayers were paying for all federal employees. we don't intend to take the subsidies. what we want to do is grant everybody a waiver by making them all honorary members of the committee, subcommittees or committees. so this bill, a...

Unable to understand this. then all of a sudden it is revealed. tells you that the law itself is not only archaic, but tens of thousands of pages are equally arcane. pelosi said you won't know what's in the law until you pass it. no, until three years later when it has been studied, and you still don't know what's in the law. and the reason people are upset is because it allows the administration to manipulate it at will in a way that's completely lawless. >> a lot of folks are upset about the deal congress worked out with federal agencies before they left town, that their staffers would get a...