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Right now. the house opened a rare saturday session this morning to vote on giving furloughed federal workers back pay and restoring funding to more chunks of the government. house republicans earlier this week already voted to restore fund to allow the national institutes of health to continue clinical trial, to reopen national parks, and to allow the district of columbia to continue operations. democratically controlled senate has refused to take up the piecemeal funding bills. the democrats are also attempting to use a bit of procedural trickery to force the house to vote on a clean bill th...

The republicans have already won. we're funding at sequester levels. you've got it. congratulations. >> listen, sequester levels was a concession back in 2011, and a negotiation for 2011. we're now in 2013. different matter -- >> not at all. let me -- [inaudible conversations] martha: hold on. it is my show, so i'm going to step in -- hold on. >> president obama -- martha: jason, jason! whoa, hold on. i want to get this in here, and i want to get to it. no way to run a country. you've got thomas jefferson looking at john boehner and president obama wrestling on top of mount rushmore. this is w...

Could be paying more for years, decades to come. >> congresswoman diane damageette on last word on msnbc last night. she made the point coming from the democratic perspective she would agree to a clean cr, a clean continuing resolution for a matter of six weeks. beyond that she is not willing to go along. they have already embedded the sequester levels. so the republicans have really won the battle of the budget, the battle over spending. the social programs democrats care about have been gutted by the sequester. >> i think the important point that's being made there is that is shows how unrea...

So we can all produce energy more safely. our commitment has never been stronger. the government may be shutting down, but eventually members of congress will have to reach an agreement over how to fund it, an agreement that's likely to include billions of dollars in indiscriminate spending cuts known as the sequester, which by the way, republicans should see as a victory. when the sequestration cuts went into place in march, the idea was that they would be so objectionable congress would negotiate a deal to replace them during the budget fight. even before republicans decided to hold the go...

Victory in saying we are keeping government spending at the sequester levels which really are too low. the fact is from now on there is nothing left to compromise on. because, it is not a concession for a member of congress to agree to open the government. that's what politicians are supposed to do. it's not a concession to say, oh, i guess we'll vote for the government to pay its bills. and that's why you are seeing no action. and i think, it would be a terrible mistake to make any concessions now on the basis of a shutdown or threat on the debt ceiling. i think this is the time to say no mor...