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The congressional correspondent is up on capitol hill. hearing that the republicans have the votes? >> senate majority leader mitch mcconnell walked on to the floor after a closed door meeting said plainly we have the votes. he rarely speaks to reporters and he rarely talks about the whip counts before he has them locked in. here's what happened over the course of the last 15 or 16 hours. when it came to the deficit issue that broiled everything and said senator bob corker off. they were willing to make a deal with susan colins and make a deal with ron johnson and make a deal with jeff flake. ...

Year. it's stagnant. if folks at home are wondering why donald trump won 2016, the simplest answer is because working men and women have been left behind by the economy. the only force powerful enough to pay down the debt is economic growth. if we get growth back to 3%, 4%, 5% historic levels, that's how you pay down the debt. we saw it with ronald reagan in the 1980s. i want to pay down the debt, which means we need to bring back jobs and get growth. and cutting taxes is the proven method to getting jobs and getting the growth. >> senator cruz, you talked earlier about the fact that its the d...

Republicans control both houses. so you were discussing the deficit issue earlier. what else is hard? you and then heidi. >> well, they're questions about the removal of the individual mandate which has been included in the bill. there are questions about whether the rate should go down for the most affluent americans. i think hardy parsed it exactly right. that they've got momentum. it is looking more likely that they want to get to yes on this. the democrats the ones who have the government shutdown. it will come to a head next week. the. >> i think most republicans see this as political sur...

Fin votes for final passage on the senate floor. you're going to be co-moderating with jake tapper tonight in cnn's town hall. where does the bill go from here? >> it's going to the senate floor, but you're exactly right, it did pass the budget committee today along party lines. the leadership in the senate, in the house and certainly the president, they're breathing a sigh of relief that that happened, but look at the screen right now, wolf. all of those republicans are undecided. it's unclear if you're going to get any of those republicans and you can only -- by you, the president and the re...

Wisconsin saying, well, i don't like what's going on with some of these escort provisions. and john mccain throwing that procedural question out there that they have never really seriously addressed. susan collins of maine saying, well, how come we're all of a sudden taking away people's individual mandate premiums? i think there's going to be a very good chance that those speed bumps will really come to the for he e. >> two things going to be true. it is significant the house passed this version overnight. sit true it's a whole new season in the senate. we have a list of the republican sena...