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Leave, immigration, that might actually wind up on the cutting room floor. >> this train is moving so fast in the house they've blown by hearings, blown by bipartisan mark-ups and they don't even have a score from the congressional budget office that is required in the senate. the product coming out of the house if it makes it over here is dead on arrival until we get a cbo score. >> no votes have been scheduled now. what you see live from the house floor is republicans trying to adjourn to get everybody to leave. totally normal. part of the process. no vote has been scheduled just yet. >> dan...

Right now, david, which is there's been zero transparency on this bill. it's been all behind closed doors, and i think it's because the democrats don't wan the american people -- don't want the american people to know what's actually in it. there's been no hearings, no mark-ups, and they certainly don't want the image of a socialist, that's bernie sanders who's the author of the bill, chairman of the budget committee, marking up his socialist bill. this country is not a socialist-oriented country. the democrats are right now, and i think that scares the heck out of 'em which is why it's all cl...

Can you briefly explain to our viewers tonight on msnbc why you voted that way? i'm sure you know you have come under a lot of criticism for the present vote including from your supporters. >> yeah. absolutely. this was an extremely difficult vote and i also think it is important that people are educated about the process of this vote. that democratic leadership decided to fast track this funding so when you want funding for preschool here in the united states, if you want funding for any sort of domestic priority it must go through what feels like 80 different committee hearings, mark ups, et...

The democrat party are laser focused on pushing through the economic agenda including spending $5 trillion on a green new economy. joining me right now to discuss how you will end up paying for this by your higher taxes the ranking member on the house budget committee congressman jason smith. congressman smith, good to see you, thank you for being here this morning. >> great to be here, thanks for having me, maria. maria: where are we at this point. we had 13 committees do their own mark-ups of nancy pelosi's reconciliation bill and what have we learned from the mark-ups an tell me where does ...

This briefing that all lawmakers are about to get on where things stand with the reconciliation process. what are your expectations on that, congressman? >> it's funny, we've all been in mark-ups in our various committees this week. i don't know what happened in the other committees. i want to hear and find out where they are in those committees but a long day and a lot of back-and-forth and anybody who knows anything about congress knows that and that's the process and it doesn't mean there's something wrong. i think it's a healthy part of any legislative body trying to figure out how they'll...