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Millions of them -- who have been out of work for months in this country. what is going to happen now to those unemployment benefits? >> now, the democrats in congress will try to get this passed separately, or in a package that also would extend some payroll tax cuts that were approved last year, and that folks want to extend. so there will be an effort to try to pass this. here is where it gets tricky. it costs more than $40 billion to do this. republicans are on this quest to reduce the deficit. they are saying if we're going to spend extra money, even on unemployment insurance it needs to ...

to send it to the senate where it can receive action. >> well, the vote was scheduled for yesterday, rescheduled for early this evening and then put on hold again so the leadership could wrangle votes. they're going that literally as we speak. still promising a vote sometime tonight. we'll be live when it hams. yesterday speaker boehner told the troops to "get their asses in line". apparently not enough republicans have, and now his credibility is on the line. most of the opposition coming from tea party supporters, raw, open, direct rebellion. >> we want to make sure we never get he...

That bemawe make cuts. i think we should make surgical precision and make cuts in a responsible manner and not make cuts that are really to me more about ideology than about the economy. >> so we have our terms straight. >> sure. >> $40 billion that -- for a budget that never passed that democrats were willing to cut $40 billion from that. let's just take it from where we are right now. the continuing resolution. republicans cut $61 billion. >> right. >> democrats offered to cut $6.5 billion. you are that far apart. >> right. but the reason why i talked about last year was because last year wa...

Funders of cancer research. that's in the bill, and there is actually a democratic congressman, ed markey, who is proposing to reinstate that funding, so we could be seeing a vote really here just in the next little while, brooke, but i think what you're really seeing in this specific example is what's going on on the house floor. you have some people saying, oh, my goodness. look at these cuts. there are serious consequences for the kind of cuts that the house republicans are talking about making, but house republicans are saying, yes, but we're facing a mountain of debt, and if we don't deal...

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