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There are many. they have real estate holdings and that's going to shut them out of discussion of the financial services deregulation proposals because the real estate industry is very dependent on large banks for financing. when you deregulate the banks, the real estate people get money, cheap money and a bubble and that soon bursts. we've been through all that before. so they'll have to recuse from dodd/frank and all that. recuse from tax reform because there are so many goodies in there for real estate people. and also the clothing import business that ivanka has, bringing clothes in from c...

Economy, you would bring in some witnesses and hear from witnesses about what's going to happen if this legislation becomes law. we had none of that. we went straight to mark-up. no amendments could be offered in the ways & means committee, budget committee. they took a manager's amendment at the last hour to try to get people to vote for it. >> anybody threaten you guys? in the good old days gingrich's people would always threaten us and we would laugh at them. did anybody threaten you? >> no. that didn't happen. >> just so we can have a big laugh. because threats, as obviously some people in...

Ambitious agenda, there are still some important positions that have not been filled. in large part to senate democrats, obstruction. i want to give you a quick update on outstanding confirmation. secretary of labor alex acosta. had a very successful hearing yesterday. we expect mark-up next week. secretary of agriculture desing iny, sonny perdue. we expect governor perdue to continue to show why he's the best choice to lead the usda and his mark up to be scheduled in the coming days. we also announced that prime minister rasmussen of denmark will be visiting the white house on march 30th. we'...

Holding a mark-up of the health care bill. that means they're trying to figure out what it's going to cost. that panel includes several members of the freedom caucus. they've been less than thrilled what they've seen so far and paul ryan encouraging them to speak their minds. >> we're getting feedback from various members how to improve the bill. now that we have the score we know what we're dealing with and we can incorporate feedback to improve and refine the bill and those conversations are happening between the house and members and before the score we weren't sure and now that we have the...

There's also a critical mark-up in the budget committee where nick was saying they're potentially going to have amendments on the house side. you may see some changes to the bill tomorrow. and there are some members of that committee that could potentially be noisy in opposing this. soe'll see how that plays out in particular. but, it's still, i think hard to square what we've been talking about all along. ted cruz says it's dead on arrival. so does senator tom cotton, they're saying that for two totally different reasons. it's unclear to me how they square all of this. and look, there's still...