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In, there will be 246 house republicans. so far, there are only about a dozen who will oppose boehner for speaker. those in the republican leadership who i talked with say this is just the group they not so lovingly call the hell no caucus. there are usually no votes on just about everything. the house speaker is elected by the entire house. boehner has the get a majority 218, that means he can afford to lose 29 republicans and still be speaker. i talked to his allies yesterday. they say they are monitoring that issue. here is tom cole. a boehner ally. >> this is a last-minute side show. this ...

The latest on this. >> reporter: john and christine, the big question on the opening day is how big will the rebellion against john boehner be on the vote for house speaker? to put it in perspective, when the congress is sworn in there will be 246 house republicans. so far, there are only about a dozen who say they will oppose john boehner for speaker. those in the republican leadership who i talk to say this is the group they call the hell no caucus. there are usually no votes on just about everything. the house speaker is elected by the entire house. boehner has to get a majority of all hous...

The first, the president could veto any bills that could rollback obamacare or his action on immigration. the more immediate concern of some unrest inside the party in the house. some conservative house republicans are set to vote against reelecting john boehner as house speaker. our chief correspondent dana bash has the latest. >> reporter: john and christine, the big question on this opening day of the congress is how big will the rebellion against john boehner on the house speaker? when the new congress is sworn in there will be 246 house republicans. so far, there are only about a dozen wh...

In the middle of the road on the senate side. and i think there's an opportunity today to brick that to a conclusion and to begin moving something off the senate floor in a bipartisan way. >> let's bring in chief political analyst gloria borger. the key is to get something past the senate so it can go to the house. >> there's the question of what can get through the house. >> if it passes the senate with extensive bipartisan -- a lot of republicans are on board. that will put enormous pressure on baner to let it come up for a vote in the house into it will put pressure on him if he still has t...

Say the senate rejects it as we expect, it comes back, then republicans will divide, okay, and there will be some republicans who would be willing to join with democrats to keep the government open, and some maybe, you know, 30 or 40 or so of what i call the hell no caucus who won't. but he was sort of optimistic that they could work something out on the government shutdown. i think the bigger question is going to be raising the debt ceiling because as wolf points out, the president says there's no give in that. >> yeah. all the while, americans watch this and think i've been through this dog ...