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In a conference committee. unfortunately, now, it is still in the senate bill, so the house has to be absolutely convinced that the senate is going to gut that provision, under the obama guidelines which came out about a week ago, he recommends raising that threshold to a very, very high level so it wouldn't really affect very many people, but i -- this is, again, the problem that the senate bill has to be swallowed whole by the house, and they have to vote for example the cornhusker kickback, and the louisiana purchase, and this is not something that is going to be popular especially if it ca...

>> oh, god, what about ensign, what about vitter? let's bring up all the matter. >> full listen one minute, donna? >> i will listen but i will not let you demagogue just simply because you -- >> just listen for a minute, please. >> i won't let you demagogue. >> and got what we deserved. we had abramoff and we had mark foley and we had duke cunningham and we had our heads handed to us. that is where the focus of the corruption was. now looking at rangel, looking at paterson, looking at a government people distrust, looking that the tea party thing going on, the cornhusker kickback, louisiana pu...

You have a problem. it doesn't tell you what the solution should be. each time the president has put forward this -- a version of this solution or the democrats, the american people have said no. >> david, do you -- >> abortion is easy, bill, because no public funds will be used to pay for abortions. that's been the law for 33 years. that's -- that's the law. >> why won't bart stupak -- why won't part stupak support it? >> increase access to 31 million americans. >> okay. okay. >> we are paying -- >> your argument is with bart stupak. >> you and i are paying $1,000 more in health insurance cos...

Won't bart stupak support it? >> increase access to 31 million americans. >> okay. okay. >> we are -- >> your argument is with bart stupak. >> paying $1,000 more in health insurance costs each year because of uncompensated care. >> no chance to respond. okay. >> hopefully mr. stupak, bill, will agree with ms. pelosi and members of the senate that this bill will not allow public funds to be used for abortions. >> well, we'll see. i mean, we'll see. you know, if i had to bet, i would say probably he will be able to get this through, only with democrat votes. i think it's bad policy to do that. i...

Were a house member and counting on senate to pass a reconciliation bill that going to fix these problems like the cornhusker kickback, abortion language and other things it is going to be hard to keep those provisions in the senate reconciliation bill when the it gets here. >> greta: did the republican senate have strategy meetings? are you meeting with other=-f senators? >> i think we have to be prepared for all types of different scenarios. our goal is to stop a really bad bill from passing. we think is a disaster for the american people. the american people think that which is why they've ...