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You're looking at the floor of the u.s. house of representatives on this january 1st, 2013. it is 21 hours into the first day of the year, and we are awaiting a final vote to keep the u.s. economy from falling to the bottom of the so-called fiscal cliff. good evening. i'm richard lui. we will be with you throughout this hour as we await a vote in the house which we expect to happen soon. the senate did its part early this morning by passing a bill to extend the bush era tax cuts for 98% of american households. this afternoon, house republicans revolted against the senate bill. republican leade...

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They -- right now today they're expired. if we can force them into law for good, we'll mean we might never rise them again. we can take another bite at this. and another part of the long game is what mike was saying. in two months they're going to get a fight on what they think, what tom cole says, lindsey graham says is favorable ground to them on the debt limit. democrats are not convinced. democrats think republicans are going to lose that argument too. but there is a sense of exhaustion and a sense of kind of collecting their winnings and then going to the next table. >> again, this could ...

He didn't know what to do. there was a rebellion, and he didn't do enough to squash it. so there is two views out of it. but i will say, richard, it's fascinating. boehner's philosophy has been in all these fights, give this rebellious part of his conference a voice, and it's kind of a prodigal son routine. they get angry, they go out, he ends up welcoming them back with open arms, and then they move forward as a unified republican party, at least in their discussions. but we in the media then sort of dissect the interesting divisions that have occurred. and you saw them quite front and center...

Shrinking away, doesn't that argue that we are still a two-party system and it still is as powerful as ever? >> no. i think people are undecided, just because they're undecided doesn't mean they're happy with the choices they've got. i would argue that people aren't particularly happy with those choices. >> but that's happened before? >> sure it has. sure it has. but, you know, in this environment if we had a different option, if we had mike bloomberg or somebody else out there, i think that you would see a real split. >> andrea mitchell was saying yesterday, for some reason i found it to be -...