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Washington for us this morning. with this vote looming on health care potentially this weekend there's an awful lot of whipping going on in washington right now. >> reporter: it's such a violent visual term. we call it whipping. we call it arm twisting. this process of wrangling the votes, rounding up the votes here on capitol hill. this is such a significant process both democrats and republicans have a leadership position, top position called the whip. they're supported by a whip team, other members of congress and a lot of aides whose job is to secure a yes or no vote on a bill. ♪ if some...
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