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♪ uma: the countdown underway to zero hour on health insurance reform, house speaker nancy pelosi insisting that she will have the votes to pass a health care overhaul bill this week. but the debate that's supposed to be over is still raging in every corner of the nation's capital. >> here through elections, through town meetings, through consistent public opinion surveys, americans have said, don't pass this bill. >> one, we believe health care reform is going to pass, and once it passes, we're happy to have the 2010 elections be about the achievement of health care reform. that's a debate ...

Oklahoma. his former republican senator from oklahoma, tom coburn, and republican senator, johnny is c isaacson of georgia. we also have a late add. alaska senator mark begich just kaked our producers to say he supports filibuster reform, specifically, tom udall's filibuster reform effort. we have calls out to all senators to clarify their exact position on filibuster reform. we have a handful of responses. some people still deliberating their exact position. we'll keep you posted. in our ongoing "rename the filibuster" contest, today's featured entries include discombobulegistlation, obstruct...

Them. don't pass a law unless you intend to enforce it. kids who are raised here. they brought parents here. they have learned english. they are here. they have become americans if not officially. what do you do with them? >> well, chris, you laid out a narrative that if that were the case for everyone it would be a very different situation than what we have right now. so many who come here illegally are not interested in assimilation. you said enforcement is the key. >> that's what i believe. >> but when you fail to enforce the law you end up with a situation you have now. that is in stark co...

Thing? electing obama president was not taking the safe bet. that was taking the really stupid point spread. that was not like putting all of your money on red or putting all your money on don't pass or one of those things. it was really, you know, putting all of your money in an elvis slot machine on fremont street for one pull. i think somebody who won such an incredible gamble the way obama did should have a little respect for the stupid nuts dressing up like elvis and screwing anything that moves, smoking cigars and wasting everything they have. i mean, i think he should have a little resp...

He's not going to go out there and be the leader. he's going to work behind the scenes as he has to try to push members to pass it. if they don't pass, it i think the president has said what does that say about our ability to govern. >> you get all the downside and none the upside is the view. is the democratic majority in real jeopardy? >> absolutely. i felt for some time that the house majority is at great risk of going republican in november, and i think increasingly you're looking at significant gains in the senate. we just saw this week with senator coats declaring in indiana against evan...