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Congressman out of iowa, sir, good morning to you and you also chair the conservative opportunity society. what is the idea behind this? >> we have always wanted to repeal obamacare and had the vote in hr-2 to repeal it but the bill itself, we have to wait for the senate to act and it will be difficult and the bill itself not only authorizes but also aprop operates hundreds of -- appropriates hundreds of billions of dollars into 15 categories that spawn new appropriation and the only way to get at that is to shut off all funding that might be used to implement or enforce obamacare and have to ...
>> between that view of yours and where congressional republicans are at right now with some power in the house, hr-1 was the republicans' new rules. hr-2 was repeal health reform. hr-3 is no federal funding for abortion. they said they were going to come to washington and work on jobs, jobs, jobs. they've got a purely symbolic anti-abortion bill as the first thing they're doing after their symbolic repeal of health care bill. i mean, there isn't federal funding for abortion but they want to doubly, triply ban it. that says to me that the anti-abortion movement, or at least the social conserva...
There. jim angle is live in washington with a full report. jim? >> reporter: yeah, megyn. as you know, after the shootings in tucson there was a cry that political rhetoric was responsible for the shootings, a notion for which there was no evidence and even dismissed by president obama. nevertheless, everyone came together and called for a more civil discourse in politics. but in the health care debate, some democratic lawmakers have been unable or unwilling to embrace that call. listen. >> i will just say to you, this is about saving lives. jobs are very important. we've created jobs. but eve...
And therefore, they want to focus on anything else. >> mr. weiner, i'll give you the final word. >> let's focus on the issue because the -- >> on the name. >> seniors -- >> on the name. >> and preventative health care. so if you're killing by creating life and creating health, you're actually making the wrong name for a very positive bill. >> all right. we'll have to find out what does happen to hr-2. the dueling bobs, thanks so much for joining us. >> thank you. >> all right. we go to the control room and gretchen standing by. >> you won't believe this medical miracle. he went 3 1/2 hours wit...