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Honest and increase competition which would be good for the consumer. a year later we are closer to what the republicans were suggesting at that time, an exchange, and not a public option. so this legislation has accommodated many of their views, even though we may not get their vote, but it accommodates many of their views. >> has it accommodated too much and i ask this on the abortion language in the senate which is mirrored by the president's proposal, and you signaled a couple times you can live with that but you know you have congressman stupak and others who cannot live with that which c...

Trying to strive for bipartisanship. there are hundreds of republican amendments in the bill, and the republicans placed their own bill here in the house, and so we have a different value system here. but they have had plenty of opportunity to make their voices heard. if they wanted to truly have -- bipartisanship is a two-way street. let me say the bill can be bipartisan even though the votes may not be bipartisan. because they made their imprint on this. as i say, we were all for public option and we are now going with a republican idea and exchange. that's a very big difference. >> a lot of...

This. now it's pretty much too late. they can amend, but -- why didn't you at the very beginning say come on in here, congressman boehner, and come on in here and let's sit down and where do we start on the bill, and not amend the package? >> that's not the way it happened. the president called us march 5th, and we left the room hopeful. we went into the legislative process. hundreds of hours of hearings and bill writing and all the rest where the republicans made their suggestions. we know one of the reasons we did not have a bill in the fall is because the president wanted to give the senate...

There is not going to be an immediate benefit to anybody in the process, even if a bill is passed tomorrow. so it's going to take that amount of time for these things that you say are, well, we don't really know exactly what it's going to look like to play themselves out. that could help the president if things look better by 2010. certainly members of congress on the line in november, that's not so easy. >> this is amy walter and ceci connally. we will be back with both of them right after this. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] the cadillac cts sport sedan. one of car & driver's 10 best for the thi...

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