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Shift from lawmakers who might be playing politics to judge whether or not they need to cast a vote with their leadership, for the bill, or with their constituents if they come from a part of the country where a lot of voters don't like this and we know particularly in the case of these more conservative swing districts democrat there are a lot who are worried voters back home will resent it should they pass it. >> bret: and our understanding is that if it pass tonight it goes to the president, and do we think the president -- let's listen in real quick. hold on. >> 0 answering present the res...

>> reporter: i'm here. hi, wolf. >> explain to our viewers in easy to understand house rules for dumbies, if you will, what passage of this rule means. >> reporter: here's generally what it means. first of all, let's start with the senate. in the united states there's no such thing. it's a free-flowing thing when something is brought to the senate floor. it's not so in the house. every time you see a piece of legislation debated on the house floor, before that happens the legislation goes through the house rules committee. the house rules committee passes effectively what it is blueprint for d...

Back with legislative differences. these are democrats who carried the right to life ball in this whole debate through the last few months. we'll continue to do that. we'll work with our colleagues to get the job done. yes, sir? >> did the republicans offer motion to recommit, will you guys vote against it? >> well, what else is in there? >> there you have it. bart stupak, democratic congressman from michigan saying he's going to vote in favor of health care reform. you saw half a dozen of his colleagues, other democrats deeply worried about the senate language version on a funding for abortio...

Abortion-related issue on the floor and if that passed, which would be possible, that could really gum up the work. as one senior democrat had said to me just the other day, why not do this on our terms, not their terms? so that might be part of the calculous in making this deal with bart stupak even though they may not have had to. >> just walk us through that. it gets a little complicated. this motion to recommit. that would happen after the house passes the senate version, after the house passes the separate reconciliation bill as it's called. at that point they would do the motion to recom...

I was talking to the republican leader a while ago. they had a lot of different options they were debating. that was one of the concerns. >> it's clear they don't have the votes to pass that motion to recommit, right? they would just do it to try to embarrass the democrats? >> reporter: that's right. most of the issues, it is very unlikely that they would get enough votes to pass anything. abortion was the one issue, wolf, because it splits democrats, that the democratic leadership was concerned that republicans might actually win on. that's one of the reasons they wanted to craft a deal with ...