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Coverage, i saw mr. chaffetz and mr. hensarling echo some of my statements. i've heard some democrats around the building say they'll like it, other democrats echoing mr. harkin saying they didn't care for it. so i think we're all over the map, and i think the best thing to do is read the bill this afternoon and take it up later on today. heather: congressman mick mulvaney, we appreciate you taking the time with us, and we'll let you get back to your work. >> thanks again, heather. rick: in other news today, we're following some brand new developments concerning the health of secretary of stat...

Their senate colleagues have done. we got this take from a south carolina republican a short time ago. >> they i haven't finished reading it yet. if there are no spending cuts reading it will be a problem for me. the delay of the sequester is a problem. >> reporter: let me translate a little hill speak, congressional language. the sequester were the automatic cuts as part of the 2011 debt deal to defense spending and domestic spending. what he is saying there essentially by buying down two months, delaying the sequester, these cuts, that is not really doing anything. it is not cutting spending...

>> love to both of you. heather: it is a weird british tradition for guys who love crashing their cars over and over and over again. you like to do that, rick? rick: no, i try not to. heather: take a look at these pictures. this is from england. fearless or maybe crazy, one or the other, or maybe a little bit of both. drivers in wrecked cars, racing offramps at high speed, trying to jump over, ouch, a row of 10 other wrecked cars. rick: he didn't make it. heather: he didn't make it. but he got out though. the winner came as no surprise, that fellow right there. a car mechanic. rick: he knows h...

Just don't always be plugged in. heather: crystal haines from boston, thank you. rick: i'd like that mom to e-mail me those rules. my kids are a little too o young, but it's coming soon, and i think that a lot of those ideas make a lot of sense. heather: i think that's a great idea and a great mom, definitely. rick: absolutely. all right. breaking developments out of washington this new year's day. just a couple of hours from now the house will meet, they'll vote on the fiscal cliff deal perhaps that was passed in the senate in the predawn hours this morning. we'll have the very latest from wa...

But the bottom line is they were up against the wall. they were up against the fiscal cliff. and the senate has acted to avoid a massive tax increase for every american. now it is up to the house, heather? heather: thank you very much. mike emanuel reporting live for us. i have a feeling we'll check back in with you once or twice today. >> reporter: thank you. sure. rick: just hours before the deal to avote the fiscal cliff, another financial crisis emerged right? treasury secretary tim geithner telling congress that the u.s. just reached its $16.4 trillion borrowing limit. he says the governm...