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That would provide for unemployment insurance. we should not go home. the amendment rejected yesterday should be a free standing amendment on the floor of the house tomorrow, saturday, sunday, monday, tuesday, wednesday and then go to the senate and we should make sure we get this done before we go out of here. so what my proposal is we do not go home, that we come back. it is also to ask the president to take leadership and to call the senate and indicate that this is, in essence, putting people out on the street. it is putting 2 million children out on the street. i want action, i don't want...

More than. that i hope we can accomplish some real savings in the mandatory spending programs, which are actually the droifrs of our long-term fiscal imbalance, but if we request get this resolved where we stick to the spending levels that are in existing law, that were passed in 2011 and signed by president obama, substituting various alternative savings for the sequester, if we can, while maintaining the savings. i'd suggest two other things i'd like to see, number one, let's end government by crisis. let's have a measure, a standing bill that says whenever the congress doesn't finish it's a...

The president saying he won't negotiate when it comes to a temporary standing bill and you have the house, the house republicans saying, we're not going to talk about a resolution unless you talk obama care. you could not have two sides more polar icesed than they are right now. the president will be going to a local construction company to talk about it. you can rest assured that the president will go after republicans the way he has been to put the pressure on them to do what he wants. his way or the highway. essentially the white house lossture at this point. >> all right. jim at the white ...

Things that are democratic, very popular amongst democratic circles, unemployment insurance, payroll tax cut, things of that nature. there's an idea amongst republicans if the president wants to extend those programs it has to be done in a larger deal. if he says, fine, let's go off the cliff, they're saying we're into the going to bring ununemployment insurance as a free standing bill, we're not going to bring up payroll tax cut as a free standing bill. those are things at risk if the white house takes a hard stand. >> richard, i'm a little bit terrified for everyone in this, specifically, i ...

And as many know, i've been trying to assure that the military pay wouldn't be delayed. and i had a free standing bill and i'm waiting till midnight to make sure we either have an agreement for short-term continuing resolutions so our military do not have to worry about paying their mortgages, or i'm going to ask for unanimous consent to get our bill up. we have 80 co-sponsors. i know it's going to pass and we're not going to let our military down. but hopefully we won't let anyone down. >> on the house side, there's a similar bill. but both sides this week have been using the troop pay issue ...