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[ female announcer ] something unexpected to the world of multigrain... taste. delicious pringles multigrain. multigrain pops with pringles. >> martha: is congress about to pile more debt on all of our backs and our children's backs or are they going to do something about it that may need to be done? you report -- we report you decide. securing votes needed for a final vote to extend unemployment benefits again to millions of americans who are out of work in this country. if the senate and house pass that measure president obama has clearly indicated he will sign it. many republicans have argu...

Done to get it to happen. >> the democrats were dealt a blow yesterday. they were trying to pull the maneuver called reconciliation. it was a trick to get it done. they took one away one of the democrats because they were going to deem the senate bill passed. they'll have to voted for the cornhusker kickback and the louisiana purchase and all the other bad things in the bill. >> yeah, and the problem because there are all those bad things in the bill as you characterize them, the senate parliamentarian was responding to a question by the g.o.p. and the g.o.p. said hey, can they actually do tha...

You. by now, you heard the talk about democrats using reconciliation to get healthcare reform passed. that means senate would vote by 51 members instead of the normal 60 to pass the bill. that process requires the house first to approve the current senate bill. and the house members don't want to approve that bill. they don't like the bill. but the promise is, payments and the senate will pass a separate bill that will fix all the things the house members don't like. but can the house members trust the senate on that? new speculation on that question today. steve hayes is senior writer for the...

Bottom of the hour. let's look at what's driving the day. in baghdad, suicide bomber killed at least 20 people in attacks at two separate polling stations. early voting began in iraq today ahead of sunday's parliamentary elections. the obama administration is pushing ahead with its plans to end financial firms' proprietary trading sending congress a draft version of the language for that rule even though it's been met with stiff opposition on the hill. a health care deadline. just moments ago on "the daily rundown," press secretary robert gibbs said the white house' goal is to have the h...

That's to have the house pass the senate bill, the one that passed on christmas eve, as it is and as near simultaneously as they can, have the senate pass so-called fixes, narrow set of adjustments that would appease the house through reconciliation. that's that budget process by which only a simple majority vote is needed. there have been talk, and frankly there's still some talk at white house about could we get some kind of scaled-down bill with ten reforms you could get broad agreement on? folks on the hill do not look at that as a particularly easy thing to do. if you ask them, they will ...