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>> and so dana, house speaker nancy polices was one that kucinich mentioned. however, she still has in her back pocket this possible deem pass maneuver as opposed to allowing to count how many democrats were really onboard. >> reporter: that's right. this is something that we called the self-executing rule, but it's really unclear and it doesn't really seem as though that is going to change many of the votes and really what we're looking at now to move the ball forward even further to make some of those undecideds decide is something we really don't have that still. that's the language, freder...

Put it in the rule and it gives you a little cover. but you have republicans saying, don't trick us, don't try to fool us. in the rule, we know it's the senate bill and we're going to hit democrats with passing the senate bill with a lot of unpopular stuff in it. but democrats are standing by it, saying look at the overall package we are passing, not the senate bill, we're changing this bill. >> i remember years ago talking about the news business and i wonder if we ever thought we'd be sitting here discussing the arcane, procedural matters, but that's the news, and that's why we cover it. but...

Pare it down with the changes bill. so, what they are doing is taking something called a rule, sort of a procedural vote, normally it doesn't do a whole lot, members of congress vote on it and they say, hey, we're going to debate for this long, but what they're doing is they're rolling the senate bill into the rule, and here i'm going to -- i'll staple it together, so we can make it official. it's stuck in there. and then they would vote on the rule which would deem that the senate bill is passed and then they could emphasize this changes bill. republicans are screaming about this, ali, and th...

They are pledging to keep them near zero for an extended period in order to feed the economic recovery. but as the economy improves, the fed will need to start increasing interest rates to fend off inflation. you can still get a house for about 5% on a 30-year, fixed mortgage. a move to pass the health care bill through the house without a direct vote. lawmakers are expected to vote this week on the $875 billion overhaul approved by the senate, the problem is the democrats are struggling to find the 216 yes votes that they need, so speaker, nancy pelosi, says they may vote on a more popular ...

Committee. they are planning to bring a rule that say if you vote for the rule, you've voted for the bill. that's never happened in the history of this country, and, again, it undermines the rule of law and the american people will not stand for it. >> now, it's not entirely true, in fact, it's not true at all that it hasn't happened in the history of the country. we've found a few examples of where it's happened in 1993, in 1999, but clearly, the republicans are not interested in this. >> reporter: yeah, this has happened many times, if you're talking about the folding in, we call it a self-e...