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Where they have officialdom that is all democratic, you're watching a great big money wheel turn. and that's precisely what quinn is asking for here. it's what rahm emanuel is expecting. it's the american federation of teachers, the national education association, it's, it is one huge money waste. megyn: the problem is we talked about in the intro, if you have one state we help, where does it stop? the governor of illinois came out and said, oh, first of all, that was just a precautionary plan and second of all, that was just a drafting error. >> yeah. megyn: because there was such pushback. a...

Workers, you would be open to that? >> neil, if -- you're not saying you would want workers who have coverage through a exchange right now, federal workers, to be denied coverage because of a drafting error by senator coburn when he drafted the amendment. >> neil: this is -- all right, fine. then looking after your own. >> we said -- let's make it clear. >> neil: if others find similar things that hurt them -- >> we make sure to say, if you have insurance and you like it, you keep it. a lot of federal employees probably like the insurance they have. >> neil: what about people across the countr...

I just wasn't aware of this. >> i haven't heard from my employees about it and certainly, you know, it would seem unfair to ask someone to drop out until there's access to an exchange. >> and it's not just the members who have to deal with this but some of their staff members maybe somehow exempted. do the staff members get a better deal? >> some of them. turns out the way this law is written some congressional aides who work for committees in the house and senate side and some congressional aides who work for the most senior members of congress, leadership aides, they were exempted from havin...

Student loans. and ultimately the parliamentarian agreed with the republicans that it was out of order. the vice president, joe biden, was in the chair and had the option to overrule the parliamentarian, chose not to. democrats accepted the fact in the senate that there was a mistake and they sent it back to the house. it amounted to a drafting error of some sort. the number has changed now. what is it, jake? >> 31. >> 31 democrats have voted against the democratic bill and total of 210. we are closing in on 216. the point being, bret, what ultimately ended up happening was those two points of...

Vote and nothing can change and once there is a change it has to go back and neither one of those things they squabbled over have to deal with any aspect of medical insurance, so-called fix bill, makes it -- a handful of changes to the massively overhaul of health care, and we are keeping an eye on that and carl cameron is keeping an eye on that, too, carl, so the bill goes back over to the other side? >> reporter: ping-pong! yep! the house pinged it to the senate and, probably by the end of day the senate will pong it back to the house. technical corrections, and it is actually, some budgetar...