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Opinion. the white house megaphone is so much more powerful. there's some sense that there's a pr benefit to doing the plan b vote. i think it's going to make them weaker, even if it passes. and i think if there's a chance if they do bring it to a vote today, it won't pass. i think speaker boehner has to figure out a plan here that involves on the public relations front, not having an upper hand based on the events of the next 24 hours. and they're in danger of being the ones painted as the obstructionists to keep this from happening. >> can somebody just answer an ideological question for me?...

>> republicans are adding it, and it has -- >> yeah, john boehner has been floating that. what is your response? >> well, it's difficult to bring in an issue that is completely unrelated to cause trouble. that proposal that house republicans put forth that has the pipeline issue in it, it won't pass. so it's really an exercise which is kind of what they did in the senate, when they proposed the exact same legislation, they got 20 votes. we are going to be back at this, i think, several more times. >> you think keystone is a nonstarter? >> how do you feel keystone as a separate issue -- >> it's...

Guys, thanks very much for coming in. did i get that right, congressman? >> yes. >> okay. we want to get those names right. and scott brown got with the democrats yesterday to get a procedural vote passed for the jobs bill. is this something new or one-shot deal? >> tax cuts. it is about tax cut and reauthorization of transportation and you look for the members in charge of it and not everybody is a alabama republican. they have to go back to their own states and massachusetts is high in unemployment. it won't pass at the end of the day. >> you don't think they can reconcile it? >> well, it wi...