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Keeping track. >> that's right. here to help answer the questions, our very good friend andrew ruben, vp of clinical affairs for nyu landon medical center and host of sirius xm dr. radio. all of these are questions you have asked us that you want to know specifically, now that the debate has -- we left the debate phase and now going into how this will be implemented, what it will mean for you. floyd m., this is what he wants to know, will it bring costs down for people who currently have health insurance? >> so i'm looking at this two ways. i think that you need to think between now and 2014 w...

Court, short of the usual 60-vote threshold. democrats now have surpassed the 41 votes they need to filibuster gorsuch's confirmation in debate phase of the process this week preventing gorsuch from moving on to an up or down vote. republicans won't have the votes to stop that. so it leaves them with one real option, to go nuclear and change the rules of the filibuster all together, ending it and that means passing neil gorsuch's nomination with 51 votes. that makes the tactic dramatically weaker and means it won't be a tool democrats or republicans can use to block future nominations. today w...