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One could make rugt now. otherwise this budget deal is not a harbinger of a new tidal wave of problem solving. >> on our to do list, what's the most likely thing you think happens and the least likely thing? tax reform you think is the least likely. most likely is what? >> the farm bill has to get done. >> they have to do that. >> the dock fix has to get done. the debt ceiling has to be increased. except for, that i don't see much. >> unemployment insurance? it looks -- it should be a gimme, but it's not. >> minimum wage? >> i think it's very unlikely you'll see minimum wage make it through th...

What it is we want to get out of the debt limit. we don't want anything out of the debt limit. we will decide what it is we can accomplish by one of the problems or concerns i have is we don't know when it is going to hit. the treasury secretary has ultimate discretion on when this could occur. the timing is very much in doubt. we are going to meet in our retreats after the holidays and discuss exactly what it is we are going to try and get with this. >> in the bill that the house passed, the republicans extend the so-called dock fix. you avoid a major cut in reimbursement to doctors who treat...

Deficit. >> we will meet and discuss what it is we want to get out of the debt limit. we don't want anything out of the debt limit. we will decide what it is we can accomplish by one of the problems or concerns i have is we don't know when it is going to hit. the treasury secretary has ultimate discretion on when this could occur. the timing is very much in doubt. we are going to meet in our retreats after the holidays and discuss exactly what it is we are going to try and get with this. >> in the bill that the house passed, the republicans extend the so-called dock fix. you avoid a major cut ...

The discussions that have been held around things like sequester. where poor people, minorities have been hit especially hard because sometimes we're not at the table. if you look at the pay force for the dock fix, which disproportionately affected high-important t high-poverty areas, because we weren't at the table. if you think about some of the policies coming out of washington if we're not at the table and no one is speaking out for our interests, we get left out of the process. >> but the man sitting at the head of the table is the first african-american president. >> that is correct. and...

Year that congress had to do that. this would make it permanent. the plan also expands the child tax credit earned income tax credit and up to $2,500 tax credit for college tuition. unemployment benefits would be extended for one year and the same for the medicare dock fix. the social security payroll tax cut reverts to a 6.2%. on the estate tax, the estate tax will have a 10-million-dollar exemption per couple with additional inheritance taxed at 40 pierce. these are details just coming out. they are influx. they could change. but we thought we would give you what we could. some of it is in t...