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House republicans are trying to come up with a plan to keep the government fufbded after the next three days. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel tells us where we are right now. >> reporter: with the government due to run out of funding late night thursday, lawmakers are starting to get anxious because an extension hasn't been signed yet. >> the easy vote is always no, but i want to pass our budget, i want to keep our government functioning, but i want to know what's in it. >> the package would allow almost the entire government to operate through the rest of the fiscal year throug...

Came more bureaucratic red tape. >> these people say law endless rules strangle them. >> our government adds thousands of new pages of law every year. >> that is on top of the 175,000 pages they passed in prior years. >> this is just what you see here just the federal part, state local government adds more. if you wanted to get state county and city laws you need to render bigger bills. >> lawyer jeff rose helps little guys deal with this red tape. >> this is an agenda for control of its own space. that's why regulators do what they do. >> come on. control for its own sake. they are not makava...

Came more bureaucratic red tape. >> they say laws, endless rules strangle them. >> our government adds thousands of pages are new law every year, on top of 175,000 pages they passed in prior years. this is just what you see here, just the federal part, states, local governments add much more. if you want state, county, city laws, you need to rent a bigger building. >> lawyer jeff rose helps little guys deal with the red tape. >> this is an agenda of control for its own sake. that's why regulators do what they do. >> come on. control for its own sake, they're not freaks? >> they like rules and ...

Really crazy language coming from top lyde leaders in the american government. and he is saying, government is not going to work if we take these extreme positions. he tried to get a grand bargain, and the republicans pretend he never reached out to them and then they do these crazy stunts. i understand when he says, if you love america's government and there's stuff you want to fix, that's fine. but don't become this party you're so antigovernment, you're antiamerica' government functioning, and that's wrong. >> people were polled. there was a pew poll. the question was, essentially the resul...

List. since the shutdown, i get a urgent message, send money. this is what is happening. this is what boehner is doing. this is what the polls are showing. they are looking, they are looking to, to gain the maximum political hay. it wouldn't surprise me in the least if behind the scenes harry reid and barack obama are saying this is not about tomorrow or today and ending the shutdown. this is about 2014 and letting us have complete, uncontrolled, no opposition control for the last two years like we did the first two years. martha: this would be very problematic for republicans. >> well, sure. ...