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What needs to be in a tax bill, i never heard anything back from them. there were 17 democrats that stood about three weeks ago in a press conference that said, we want to work with republicans to get a bill, a bill that takes into consideration public input and a bill that we can negotiate and vote on together. when reagan's tax bill was passed, it was passed initially 97-3. this bill is going to be passed on a strict partisan line. tax reform is too important, far too important, because it impacts everybody in the country, just to do it on a partisan line. we should have gotten public input....

About how he was a gettable vote at the beginning of this process and wasn't at the end. >> i was an easy pickup, very easy pickup. i had a couple, two or three other democrats would have been very easy pickups if they made an effort. our republican friends wanting to use the gimmick of the budget reconciliation, they got to make some choices. it shows you where their values are, their choices were that the corporations get the greatest cuts. >> were you a gettable vote on, in theory, a tax bill at some point? >> chris, absolutely. i mean, i sent letters to the administration said, look, i'd l...