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Caughtify daca. she has urged her colleagues on the democratic side to support this. she gave them permissions not to support it. the only way a bipartisan deal works is if both parties come together to support it. there's things in this deal that democrats can rally around, raising spending caps, for example. the disaster relief funding. that's why you would see potentially, politically, the blame go to the democrats because democrats and nancy pelosi have expressed they are dissatisfied with the assurances they have received on immigrati immigration. that's why they wouldn't be supporting th...

Afghanistan, improving the financial rescue package, and te assistance to help deal with the stimulus package that democrats approved by the federal deficit was going up and republicans, then in control of the house of representatives, said we want to curb federal spending. one of the things that they put in where these sequestration caps. that was part of the exchange, the deal. if we are going to raise the debt limit, we have to have an exchange here and that was imposing these sequestration caps. fast forward seven years ago. you don't hear much about the tea party anymore. what is the exch...

Vote that requires a 60 yeas to cut off debate. remember that senators wanted to execute this at 1:35 eastern time in the afternoon, pass the bill. here's the problem. you need unanimous consent and assented to do most things. what that means is if you get everybody to agree, you can expedite the process. rand paul, the republican senator from kentucky said no. you had 99 other senators saying yes, let's vote on thursday afternoon and get this under the wire, move it through the senate and the house before midnight. rand paul said no. he wanted to have a longer debate. he wanted to have amendm...

We have always expected that the house and the senate would address the issue of daca and the dreamers. most of our members believe that this budget agreement is a reasonable compromise to address america's military strength and critical domestic priorities. >> finally how we got here just a reminder, viewers who may just be waking up wondering what happened shortly about 2:00 a.m. the senate passed their bill that came to the house. it passed 71-28. got sidetracked last minute hours long speech that rand paul gave protesting the raising of spending caps. here is some of what he had to say. >>...

Just fund the government through march 23rd and then we have to do this all over again. >> reporter: this is a complicated bill. it lists spending caps for defense and on defense for two years. you are available, the funding is available, funds the government through march 23rd, but facing a third shutdown over border wall funding or something, that could be an issue in coming months. the other issue suspending the debt ceiling through march 19th. keep in mind what this debate was about. in 2011 they had a fight over the debt ceiling. in order to raise the debt ceiling the trade-off is we have...