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Obama care. if you're scoring this at home, it's the 40th time the republican-led house voted to of repeal is, defund or cripple the law. it is government by tantrum meaningless. meaningless measures, meaningless roll calls, meaningless speeches as they say down in texas, it's all hat and no cattle. republicans are united against obama care when it comes to votes like this one, but a warring faction of tea party republicans led by ted cruz of texas are making it very real threat to shut down the u.s. government if the law is not killed. apparently the strategy is being lambasted as silly, dumb...

Woman, but, yeah, that's the other dynamic. we love all these guys while it's the hypothetical, but once they -- to what you were saying, once they become serious candidates, he is this and that and he is not that. >> we're in such a hyper-politicized environment more than ever, ever, ever before. i mean, it will be entertaining, that's for sure. >> we're still watching what's happening on the floor. i'm not sure if eric cantor has cast his vote. they're doing these roll calls in order. we're definitely going to pay attention to that. coming up, the new house and senate are in session. we are ...

You don't have to worry. they make money whether you laugh or not. >> we're back. that was president obama saturday night joking about something that appears to be all too true. the senate is moving full steam ahead on wall street reform and some democrats want to get tougher on biggest banks. ted kaufman is vice president biden's successor in the senate and he sits on the government affairs committee. thank you, senator kaufman. first time you've been on the show. i wonder whether you have a special advantage coming into this senate without the need to fund raise. the right word is sickening ...

>> we're back. that was president obama saturday night joking about something that appears to be all too true. the senate is moving full steam ahead on wall street reform and some democrats want to get tougher on biggest banks. ted kaufman is vice president biden's successor in the senate and he sits on the government affairs committee. thank you, senator kaufman. first time you've been on the show. i wonder whether you have a special advantage coming into this senate without the need to fund raise. the right word is sickening parts of your wonderful role in life is that you don't have to play...

Next 20 years. >> 200 votes already. they need 16 more. i think there's little doubt they'll get those 16 votes. 179 opposed. six minutes or so left for members to vote. normally, john, and i botch a lot of these roll calls, 201 now, who waits until the last minute? because they're all there, basically, on the floor? >> they have a bit of a cushion here, apparently, which will make this a little less dramatic than say the clinton budget, which passed by that one vote. and often in those cases, what you will see is you see down here in the well where the people are gathering, this is small talk...