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House over the weekend . Stephanie i dont know. I wouldnt want to bring you in to harms way my bff. I love this boner not so much about the compromising. [ laughter ] stephanie im sure jacki will give us all of the latest from behind the bulletproof plexiglas. The white house is asking congress for 64 billion for emergency aide to help states rebuild in the aftermath of hurricane sandy. They will take a vote on it today, but republicans are pursuing a much slower give the money as it is needed approach. The states will spend about 9 billion in 2013 and the rest will be divided fairly evenly over the last two years. Last nights 1212 benefit concert raised money for poverty in the area. And while congress is waiting on the president and House Speaker john boehner to come to some sort of deal to avert the fiscal cliff it is keeping busy with other business. It is passing the no fly act to allow them to determine which luggage will be ....
right now there are 40 clinics operating in texas this bill would cut that to five clinics serving a population of 13 million women spread out over 72,000 square miles. that would mean women in he el paso would have to drive over 500 miles to get to the nearest clinic. nearly 200 people signed up to testify, but before they got a chance to speak state legislation got into a debate among themselves. a texas sized whoop she argued that her bill would not force clinics to close and even if it did, that would be good for women. sylvester turn turner challenged her on that. any challenge to that would be foolish. she then faced questions from jessica ferrar. did you look at the potential for clinic closings. you asked what my intention was? it is for the health. that wasn t my question. did you look at capacity? can you answer that? yes or no. it s for the health and safety. you re not going to answer. michael: it s amazing when they don t answer those questions. ....