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Passed the civil rights so you have gridlock, divided legislation if he had lacked a government. couple vote in the senate. all the factors we talked about of course, not, he would have gone and gotten that vote. that have taken power away from we might not have liked the way our leaders which i actually it looked at the time but that's think is a bad thing. what leadership was all about. leaders should have some power. in this case, it was hands off. >> you guys like to ski, huh. get the house to affirm what the >> we did a lot of skiing. i skied a reasonable amount in senate did after and th...

Wasser-schultz, the dnc chair, said they shouldn't consider obama care to be sacred and the unions are coming down on them, plus, "usa today" reported on a family glitch. if you're a family and realize you all of a sudden only applies the employee, not to the family, your children could be without insurance. >> a complete drafting error. never supposed to be that way. they weren't going to deny these kids this health care, bob. we shall overcome. but the legislative council made a drafting error. there aren't any hearings and the white house strategy on this, they know there's a lot of draftin...

Hundred pages of fixes. drafting errors or some descrep sis after all it is the federal government at work here. two things that didn't qualify under the budget reconciliation act. they were related to pell grants and student loans. i want to show you the language of the actual changes now. it's very technical. seems almost insignificant. in effect what they are saying is you are going to take two lines out of the legislation just out. they were extracted by the senate. now that they will be extracted by the house. the house will vote on it without those two provisions, just a couple of gramma...

Offered. >> bret: this is a democrat, max baucus. >> republican amendments obviously. >> one of the republican amendments is to say to report back to congress with a commitment that people who make less than $250,000 a year won't be taxed. there is another amendment by judd greg that says you are not allowed to raid medicare to pay for this entitlement, which, of course, the bill does. so you can one by one by one get democrats on the record voting against these amendments and use it in november. >> bret: charles? >> i think one of the problems with the bill is not just the drafting errors, as...

Obviously. >> one of the republican amendments is to say to report back to congress with a commitment that people who make less than $250,000 a year won't be taxed. there is another amendment by judd greg that says you are not allowed to raid medicare to pay for this entitlement, which, of course, the bill does. so you can one by one by one get democrats on the record voting against these amendments and use it in november. >> bret: charles? >> i think one of the problems with the bill is not just the drafting errors, as we saw in this particular case with the childrens' preexisting condition o...