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Have opioid treatments, are they going to drop them which were somebody like senator portman who spent an enormous number of speeches on the opioid epidemic, it's not a right or left issue it's a practical issue. all this stuff going on at once. i probably would've been pretty close to what paul ryan did. bring a bill out, go to mark ups. allow amendments. then they go to to energy and commerce into ways and means to a markup in the budget committee of the combined bill. then you go to the rules g committee, the members of the freedom caucus can walk in and say we want to put these amendments ...

Of doing and know it will make a positive difference in people's lives and against the backdrop of a collapsing law doing real damage to families every day in america. [question indistinct] >> we know it will come before the bill gets to the floor. it's common you have mark-ups where you have a score. it's common practice. because we made changes this weekend to accommodate members' concerns, particularly conservatives it pushed the date back so i spe expect next week we'll get the score before we get to the floor. >> reporter: you said you have no doubt that you will get the 218 votes to pass...

That. we know it will come well before the bill gets to e floor. it's very common you have mark-ups in authorizing committee levels before you have a score. that's common practice. because we made some changes this weekend to accommodate members conserves, particularly conservatives, that pushed the date back. so i expect at the beginning of next week we'll get the score, well before we go to the floor. >> you say you have no doubt you'll get the 218 votes necessary to pass the bill. what gives you that certainty. what your seeing -- >> i have no doubt we'll pass this because we're going to ke...

It's as my colleague said, not that much to get through. it's pretty well understood. and it's keeping in practice with reconciliation legislation. as you know when the democrats did reconciliation, they didn't have a cbo score before it went up to the budget committee. that's pretty much how it operates. we'll proceed with our mark-ups. there will be a cbo score coming and we look forward to that before it comes to the house floor so all the members of our congress have an opportunity to see that. >> critics are already blasting this as obamacare lite. what's your message to senate colleagues...

Do republicans have a secret obamacare plan? or is the only secret that the republicans don't have a plan that they can all eventually agree on? >> well, they do have a plan, and it's not secret at all. in fact i'm holding a copy of the version that they discussed wednesday, when all the republican senators met behind closed doors. and i have a piece in the new york post today analyzing it in case your viewers would like to read that. so the latest iteration, just a day after that meeting, includes the mark-ups that are now being added by two house committees. the energy committee and the ways...