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president blinked. >> you know, it's only monday. >> it could be a long night here on capitol hill. >> here's how the deal got done. >> for now it looks like crisis averted. >> friday the house passed boehner's bill, then the senate killed it. the house has passed the budget control act. saturday, harry reid tried to round up votes for his bill. >> the spectacle going on in the senate. >> republicans voted down the reid bill in the house before he could get a vote in the senate. >> bipartisan opposition to senator reid's proposal. >> then michele bachmann used the house of representa...

>> you know, it's only monday. >> it could be a long night here on capitol hill. >> here's how the deal got done. >> for now it looks like crisis averted. >> friday the house passed boehner's bill, then the senate killed it. the house has passed the budget control act. saturday, harry reid tried to round up votes for his bill. >> the spectacle going on in the senate. >> so we'll all have to take a look. >> hello? >> hours and hours waiting. >> but on sunday night. >> parties have come together. >> there's now a framework. >> the president interrupted sunday night tv. >> the leaders o...

and let's see if that type of bill were to pass, where you have a two-stage process, let's go ahead and get the work out of the way. but toipght back to the bigger -- but i want to go back to the bigger picture for just a moment and will conclude momentarily. we have an opportunity right now -- we've never been focused in the way that we are right now in the four and a half years that i've been here on something that is important as this, as it relates to us getting our house in order. we have never been this focused. and what i'm afraid of, in the name of political efficacy, people ...

speaker boehner and majority leader, the democratic majority leader of the united states senate, harry reid, came together and fashioned by and large the measure that is before us today. i'm the first to say that harry reid no longer supports this measure. harry reid has indicated that he does not support it. we have this letter from the 53 senators, we have word that they're going to table this measure when it passes the house of representatives. but it's important, mr. speaker, for everyone to recognize that what is before us today is by and large a measure that is not what speaker...

it will need to be raised in the coming year. this, by the way, is a challenge for boehner and the house. >> the president here really did get into a bidding war with the republicans over more tax cuts. >> good evening again from new york. an agreement has been reached and the government shutdown has been averted. >> house and senate negotiators kick up high stakes budget negotiations led by vice president biden. >> there will be no increase in the debt limit. >> john boehner the other night in a room full of billionaires categorically refused to raise taxes. >> let's talk about the ...