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Welcome back. we're watching what's happening on the floor of the house of representatives. only a little bit more than an hour or so away from the actual roll call on the senate health care bill. we expect it will pass. they need 216 votes. they got 224 on a passage of a rule allowing this debate to go forward. so given that vote, it looks like the democrats will win tonight, send the senate bill to the president. they still have a reconciliation bill they have to deal with as well. we're watching all of this unfold. gloria, if they vote in an hour, they take 15, 20 minutes or so to vote elec...

>> appreciate that, caroline. >> you look at this thing, beginning around one o'clock this afternoon. make sense this have, what's next. >> first the start off, a lot of little votes nicknamed bed check votes. everyone has to come to the floor and can't hide out in the offices and leadership can make sure where everyone stands and are you with us, a few hours later where the important stuff happens, they'll vote on the senate bill and then reconciliation probably wrapping up early evening and that could slide though. the rules committee tossed out the deem and pass plan last night at nearly mi...

Who are opposed to abortion? >> reporter: i apologize. i didn't hear every word. it's a bit loud. i think you were asking about a motion to recommit. the republicans feel this is an opportunity to highlight where the differences are. and to hopefully pull off an extra vote or two. what we have seen is that the democrats going down the wire, they're certainly predicting they want a victory. they've said that or we've heard there's a report that nancy pelosi said we can't have 216. we need 217 or 218. we can't have a single democrat be the deciding vote on health care. if this bill is as great, ...

When republicans tried to scuttle that bill with a motion to recommit, democrat anthony weiner decided he had heard enough. >> you know, you got to love these republicans. i mean, you guys have chutzpah. the republican party is a wholly owned subsidiary of the insurance industry. that's the fact. they say that, well, this isn't going to do enough, but when we propose an alternative to provide competition, they're against it. they say that, well, we want to strengthen state insurance commissioners and they'll do the job. but when we did that in our national health care bill, they said, we're ag...

Explanation from wellpoint about its plans to institute huge rate hikes, not merely in california, proposed 39% rate increase there, but also in at least ten other states where it has subsidiaries. chairman waxman of the house energy and commerce committee revealing that his investigators had found internal wellpoint documents which proved the company was raising premiums merely to pad its profits to a target of 7%. yesterday at a hearing in california a company executive having testified that the company had no interest in anything other than slimmer profits of 2% to 5%. you know, nothing at ...