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Can you see just as an example here $555 billion within this $1.75 trillion in social spending goes to tax credit for clean energy. $555 billion for essentially what you described accurately as a green new deal or a pregreen new deal when it comes to infrastructure. you are exactly right, rachel. this is a lesson not just about republicans but democrats as well. it's fascinating how little cohesion there is. kevin mccarthy couldn't wrangle 13 republicans you are right kinzinger gear and gonzalez are not running again and nancy pelosi couldn't wrangle six as it turns out most progressive member...

Voting. if their governors green light them, portman and company will do it. do maine governor and governor kasich if they can find out what they need and see if they can put that in the plan, then the senators will do what the governors want. they are hamstrung by their constituents and their governors feel they have their constituents in mind. the president can do that. steve: here is the problem with the latest version. it's not a very good bill. what it would do is allow insurers cheaper plans homage to tid cruz. he is he is willing to go ahead and to go ahead with the procedural vote next...

Delight and umbrage in attacking the back room deals -- most notely the one that came to be known as the cornhusker kick back which gave special treatment for medicaid payments to nebraska to get the vote of one democratic senator ben nellson. now republicans are outdoing democrats with a provision that will quite literally apply only to smaller upstate new york counties in order to get the votes of some upstate new york republican congressmen. those counties aren't happy the new york state funds medicate partially through property taxes. the new provision in the gop health care plan would exe...

Social issues, but viewed as the deciding vote with democrats in 2009 to pass president obama's healthcare law. that vote spurred by the cornhusker kickback, was according to one political that was politically devastating for him at home. >> there's no question that his vote for obamacare sent him from the heights of popularity to the depths of unpopularity in nebraska. he's never really recovered from that vote. and it probably would have been the critical factor in the 2012 senate race. >> right now republicans need to pick up four seats in 2012 as well as hold on to a couple of vulnerable s...

Get in i don't know. it makes it essentially a republic seat to lose at this point. this is good news for the republicans in that sense. it also demonstrates that barack obama and obama care have defeated more democrats than ronald reagan ever did. we saw the republicans take back the house in 2010 because of obama care. now we are seeing nelson who is supposed to be a secure, safe democrat basically bow out because he couldn't defend the cornhusker kick back. >> i don't think he is that safe. >> because of the cornhusker kick back. >> this is the death of the moderates. you just see these peo...