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Rather small problems when you think about the practical implications here. so the white house has started to ratchet up the pressure on congress. last week they had janet yellen call senator mcconnell, talk to him about what the consequences could be and what yellen has said is that the fed has been taking extraordinary measures in the treasury to keep the funds flowing. that can only go until october. so mid october, they are going to run out of tools and levers that they can pull. press secretary jen psaki said they support the bill in the house. a reporter asked there is an issue about isr...

Hour, chad pergram, following the details, all things related to capitol hill, particularly the senate and house. what can you tell us about this historic moment for the senate in g.o.p.? >> this is in fact a big win for president trump. they stumbled badly in the summer and spring to repeal and replace obamacare. they could never quite get there but don't forget there is a major provision in this bill that gets rid of the individual mandate, the requirement that you have to purchase health insurance under obamacare. that is a major provision of this bill. it was included in the senate package...

>> sean duffy from the great state of wisconsin on the house financial services and budget committee. he joins us. thanks for expwroing us, sir. >> thanks for having me on. >> pete sessions no rules committee tonight. there is no vote tonight. that is very grim news. do you have anything to add to that? >> i think you mentioned that we have pizzas coming into the capitol. we haven't given up on the house. we are going to still do work trying to get a house package out to the senate. i think what's most important here is that the house is talking about a clean funding bill to december 15th. a c...

But to say we are all in favor of extending the payroll tax cuts and let's do something else to create jobs is not a crazy position. and for obama to make it -- >> i work on capitol hill. obama is engaging here. the problem for boehner right now is corralling all of his caucus today and pa passing the payroll tax cut. they want to make a broader argument about full-scale tax reform. but that's too big of an argument for a lot of republicans to make on a national scale. obama is in a good bargaining position and boehner is working with him trying to pass it. >> what was so telling to me when yo...

Aids package and house package. nancy pelosi is back from recess to prepare a bill to prevent thousands of teachers from being laid off. luke russert is in washington. luke, bring them back, get it done. >> bring them back, get it done indeed, tamron. last week speaker pelosi announcing from a tweet the house would be? a special session, the first since the summer of 2005, to pass this $26 billion jobs bill that was just passed in the senate last week. within the bill there are $10 billion specifically allocated to help states pay the salaries of teachers as well as $16 billion to help their b...