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Right when they come up for a vote again in 2014? >> i think they're going to say look what we did for your tax rates. look at what we did on the -- your -- the average voter in my district got a tax cut based on the january 1st baseline. congratulations for that. we kept our pledge. i mean, there is always an odd cinderella aspect to this where at midnight it became a tax cut. a lot of people scoffed at that. but republicans took that quite seriously. grover norquist has absolved them and said voting for this today is not voting for a tax increase of any time, even though you're restoring som...

Also in there nbc news correspondent luke russert has been at the capitol all night watching this. luke, you know, it started at 2:00 a.m. >> yes. >> there were some positive signs coming from the senate, and boy, that is a long time away from right now. what is the latest you're hearing in terms of timing? >> in terms of timing, i spoke to a few gop aides, and they think about 11:00 for final passage. and just i say that, richard, and just a few hours ago when we spoke we had no idea that this bill was even going to get to the floor. >> right. >> so it's just been an extraordinary turn of eve...

Have to rely on democrats to put them over the top. the question remains how many republicans are going to vote for this, and how many democrats are going to be required to get to 217. 217 being the majority with three vacancies in the house right now, richard. >> okay. we're watching that rule vote on the house floor right now. when that finishes, we expect within about an hour and 15 minutes or so for the vote to be complete on the senate bill that passed at 2:00 a.m. thank you so much, mike viqueira at the white house. joining us from the capitol is dave weigel. he is for the buzzfeed.com s...

Mcconnell and joe biden spent all night working on, it's moving forward and could become law in the next day or so. >> you know, one of the issues was eric cantor, the second ranking gop member there in the house. he had said he could not support the senate bill. might it be possible here, luke, that we will see the speaker vote for it, and we'll see eric cantor say no? >> certainly it's possible. usually the speaker of the house doesn't vote on legislation unless the party that they're a member of absolutely needs the votes. so occasionally you see it. nancy pelosi was there for the important...

Every tax cut. and i remember many of straight to capitol hill, the house floor, we seldom get to say that at 9:54 p.m. in the evening they are working. at the moment, a debate has started on the senate bill, and they will vote on the senate bill and we could have a piece of legislation by tomorrow if it is forwarded to the president as it makes its way through the house right now. they're going through the debate, we heard from michigan, darrell issa from california, a very prominent republican, let's take a listen. >> a new congress is going to do what we're not going to do here today is n...