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Ended up finally leading the house to vote for last night? >> no, because last night was not a final deal. last night was a debate over how much of the tax increase obama was going to take off the table, and he took it, it's bad for the economy and unfortunate he got that. but now that's past us, what do we do now? we have a fight for four years on how to reign in obama's overspending. republicans have three pressure points, the president has none. what happened, all the republicans in the house were mad. you saw 157 voted against the deal. were they against cutting taxes for almost everybody?...

Good day, happy new year, i'm andrea mitchell live in washington. president obama arrived in washington today after a victory on the future of tax rates for all americans, but the fiscal cliff has set the stage for still future debt ceiling debacles to come. joining me now for our daily fix in the new year, chris cillizza and our correspondents on the hill, kelly o'donnell from the capitol and luke russert right here on the set. thank you all very much. first you, kelly, the late-night deal that averted the fiscal cliff left a lot of things still to come. what's the next fight? >> reporter: we...

The breakdown of the vote. in the house vote last night, only 85 republicans voted for this deal. the speaker, as you pointed out last night, showed some guts in actually voting for it. >> speakers ordinarily don't necessarily vote. sometimes they vote on big bills, but especially with this big vote where he knew cantor and mccarthy were going to vote against it. he made a decision he should be on the yes side of this, for whatever reason, for conversations i've had, look, he wanted to be out in front to tell his republican colleagues this is the best deal they could get in this situation and ...

With the debt limit, i think that there is some consensus that the era of allowing the nation to go into default is probably over. i think that republicans know that's not really something they are going to be able to toy with the way they were able to in the summer of 2011, and going forward, there's just going to have to be more consensus or else the american people are not going to stand for watching this happen every couple of months where congress brings it right to the brink and we just don't know what kind of progress is going to be made. >> moments last week in particular i was feeling...

Hour or so ago, let's play a little bit of that on this subject. >> republicans have no trouble when it comes to raising money. i would just say anyone from new york or new jersey who contributes one penny to congressional republicans after this should have their head examined. >> chris cillizza, kelly, and luke, chris, that was pretty interesting comment to luke. >> pete king is not the kind of guy who holds back. we know that about him, but i think he's genuinely sort of angry and upset. mike grim, a republican from staten island said similar things. kelly hit the nail on the head, i underst...