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Still, though, not clear if there is enough support in the gop to give it a green light. garret haake is there watching all the action live. this is the so-called mark up. a lot of folks might not be familiar with that process. but, bottom line, what are you looking for? what are you expecting to happen today? >> yeah, sure. so, today is the final day of this markup process which makes it the most interesting day and some point today we'll get the manag manager's amendment. take all the input and all the amendments and everything discussed in this committee process over the last few days and h...

We visited about tax reform. how the mark-up is going as well. >> bill: do you want to pass this before it gets back to the white house? >> it is our goal to pass it next week out of the house. >> bill: the reason for that would be what? >> to get it to the president's desk by the end of the year. >> bill: i guess just to put a fine point on this. do you want to pass this bill before the president comes home so that there are no more changes to the bill that you see now? >> no. our goal is to get it to the president's desk by the end of year as he has asked. yesterday in our conversations, i'm...

Working hard every day. rob: first of all, it's an aggressive desire by the president to have this done by the holidays. i want to ask you if that's feasible and also for the purposes of budget reconciliation, did you guys have to give up much. i know you had to stay within constraints there. >> that was the big key, $1.5 trillion on a static basis, that's important to know that static basis means it doesn't take consideration for growth. we had to get down to that number. work a number of things to get there. the house will go to conference next week or i say conference, the committee will do...

Us, and words are not enough. we want to see action. this is why senator toomey, a republican from pennsylvania, and i have introduced legislation modelled after the iran sanctions legislation that doesn't just impose sanctions on north korea. we've already done that. but in order to enforce those, we need other countries to comply, especially a china. so our bill would impose secondary sanctions on banks and firms and china, wherever they are in the world, that are doing business with north korea. saying to these banks, you can do business with folks who are engaged with north korea, or you c...

War powers in the congress are reserved to congress in article i. we don't have to play mother may i and ask permission to the administration to fulfill our constitutional duty. senator flake and i have a bipartisan proposal that says after 16 years of open-ended war all across the globe, and americans were surprised when they read the news about four green berets in niger, about news recently that a green beret was killed, potentially strangled by other colleagues in mali. the footprint in africa is much bigger than the american public understands. i introduced documents at the hearing yester...