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>> alisyn: thanks for joining us, enjoy your oscar party tonight, clayton will be, he's got his boa on. >> clayton: from party city. thanks so much. thanks so much. >> dave: see you next weekend. captioning by, closed captioning services, inc. >> jamie: we begin with a "fox news alert," a test for' future of democracy in iraq, thels polls are now closed and millions headed to the polls to elect candidates to iraq's parliament but the day began with violence across the country, dozens of explosions erupting, across baghdad, and other cities, as well. mortar shell attacks, killing more...

When republicans tried to scuttle that bill with a motion to recommit, democrat anthony weiner decided he had heard enough. >> you know, you got to love these republicans. i mean, you guys have chutzpah. the republican party is a wholly owned subsidiary of the insurance industry. that's the fact. they say that, well, this isn't going to do enough, but when we propose an alternative to provide competition, they're against it. they say that, well, we want to strengthen state insurance commissioners and they'll do the job. but when we did that in our national health care bill, they said, we're ag...

Yet on the floor of the house this afternoon, during a debate over a planned vote to revoke the insurance cartel's anti-trust exemption, when democrat anthony weiner of new york declared that the republican party is a wholly owned subsidiary of the insurance industry, an offended republican invoked a rule that mr. weiner may automatically chastise and officially chastise for his remarks. well, mr. weiner consented to withdraw his words and substitute other words. the same republican, dan lundgren of california, objected to that too, in effect, affecting his own effort to chaztize the gop. cong...

Weiner decided he had heard enough. >> you know, you got to love these republicans. i mean, you guys have chutzpah. the republican party is a wholly owned subsidiary of the insurance industry. that's the fact. they say that, well, this isn't going to do enough, but when we propose an alternative to provide competition, they're against it. they say that, well, we want to strengthen state insurance commissioners and they'll do the job. but when we did that in our national health care bill, they said, we're against it. they said they want to have competition, and when we proposed requiring compet...

I mean, you guys have chutzpah. the republican party is a wholly owned subsidiary of an insurance industry. that's the fact. they say that, well, this isn't going to do enough, but when we propose an alternative to provide competition, they're against it. they say that, well, we want to strengthen state insurance commissioners and they'll do the job. but when we did that in our national health care bill, they said, we're against it. they said they want to have competition, and when we proposed requiring competition, the republicans are against it. they are a wholly owned subsidiary of the insu...