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Back into this bill, the $15 billion, the deficit reduction, if you look at this, based on the amendment that paul ryan put in, it is a reduction now of an hundred and $50 billion over ten years. but the other numbers stay roughly the same. at least the cbo score as we have it tonight. that doesn't move any on the other side, does it? >> well, i remind all of my friends, and there are a lot of different views and our conference. it is a very lively conference. but this bill has got to be about people. it can't be about politics. it wasn't a deficit reduction bill. it was a health care reform b...

Senate did not pass the bill, not pat 60-40, but 70-30. 85-15, something like that. the way the next few weeks work out, if president obama can get a bigger majority behind ap gun violence reduction bill in the senate, that helps get to the house. the bloomberg ads might help giving bigger numbers of democrats and republicans to vote for a background checks bill that could get a bigger majority in the senate. >> and wayne lal pierre appeared on "meet the press" earlier. he ridiculed the mayor's plan. take a be listen. >> we have have people all over, millions of people, sending us $5, $10, $15...

Political cover and the republican national committee objecting to the president's and the democrats' use of reconciliation to bypass the senate's filibuster points to comments the president himself made about reconciliation five years ago when he said, quote, a vehicle designed for decifit reduction and fiscal responsibility has been hijacked to facilitate reckless deficits and unsustainable debt, that in the context of a decifit reduction bill that cut the growth of spending in medicare and medicaid and also made adjustments to the student loan program and temporary assistance to needy famil...