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Against china when it comes to solar energy. i don't buy that. i'm not going to surrender to other countries technological leads that could end up determining whether or not we're building a strong middle class in this country. we're going to have to keep on pushing hard to make sure that manufacturing is located here, new businesses are located here here.w technologies are >> the president referring to florida republican congressman cliff stearns chair of the house energy committee who said the government should no longer subsidize green energy programs due to their lack of competitiveness. s...

>> this ensures that fema will have the funds they need to provide food and shelter to the people who have been affected by the disaster. and they can restart the program that has been brought to a screeching halt in joplin, missouri, cairo, illinois, and north carolina, all over texas and, of course, in louisiana. >> in the end the democrats expressed releadership and were happy that green energy programs were not still on the chopping block. >>shepard: seems like we never get a budget just a track -- temporary budget bill. >> necessity week we expect the house take up the longer term deal to...

Were worried about excessive spending. democrats were worried about cutting money from green energy programs that they say would cost jobs. and so everybody seems to be able to save face at this point. seems to be happy with the deal. and the bottom line is it does not appear our government is going to shut down. trace. >> and, mike, you mentioned fema. this really is kind of all wrapped up in a debate over disaster relief money, right? >> that's right. we were looking at a plan that would have given fema $3.7 billion of emergency funding for the texas wildfires, for hurricane irene. this deal...

>> i want to vote to keep it open. time for theatics and the chest pounding by the democrats to stop. >> reporter: the battle is over whether part of the $3.7 billion in disaster relief money for fema to help victims of hurricane irene and texas wildfires should be offset by spending cuts elsewhere. republicans in the house voted to pay for $1.6 billion of the money to cut the green energy programs. democrats objected. when the house bill reached the senate, majority reader harry reid strip out the cuts. this afternoon, reid ripped the house republican leadership for leaving town. >> on the ev...

Reasonable. i would ask harry reid to take it, it funds disasters. >>reporter: what the senator is referring to is the idea of paying for some of the disaster relief money about $1.6 trillion of the $3.7 trillion of disaster relief money paying for it by taking money from green energy programs, democrats don't like that so that is the center of the dispute. >>trace: here we are, two hours away from a vote in the senate. what are the democrats saying? >>reporter: just moments ago senate majority leader harry reid took to the senate floor and he brought a couple of aides with him to highlight th...