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Unforeseen consequences in the current bill. >> do you believe republicans could propose something that wasn't complex to fix health care? >> we believe that we can take this step by step in a way that people can understand it with insurance reform to bring down the costs for families and small businesses. >> representative, what is the committee process about it that's not step by step? i watched a lot of the committee work going on on c-span and i got to tell you, that seemed step by step to me. i saw a lot of republican ideas put on the table. i saw republican ideas that in some cases were ...

The deficit, put power in the hands of consumers, make sure everybody gets health insurance, there are all kinds of options being examined, of course there are, but there is the talk of a plan b is absolutely, you know, much, much overstated. many different kinds of options have been looked at at different points over the last year. what the president is committed to the is what he's talking about now. that's what he wants to happen. there is no ambiguity here. what he wants is health insurance reform that will lower costs, protect consumers, lower the deficit, make sure people can buy afforda...

Democrats take back control we don't make the kind of naked power grab you are doing. megyn: is the president prepared to sign a bill that comes to him after having been muscled through the senate on a 51 vote? >> well, first of all, just to explain to your viewers what reconciliation is, this process you're talking about is, it's an up or down majority vote, it's a vote of a simple majority up or down, but right now there is the discussion of legislative tactics is not what we should be talking about today. what we should be talking about today is the goals of health insurance reform for the ...

And we started the markup on it, then we got the other half later. since we had not had any input to the drafting. 17 of the 150 amendments were native americans and tribal inserted in 17 different places. so the ideas that we had -- when senator kennedy and i were working bills, we set down some principles and put some detail in then drafted the bills together. i hope that that's something we go to on future bills. in a three-year period i got 38 bills signed by the president in the last year i have gotten two from this president. the way we have done that is through that kind of process. unl...

They would have spent on a blue cross plan or other plan into a savings account, three years they have covered a huge deductible and they can continue to do that tax-free. it's a process that would be really objected to if it's excluded or changed. i like the ex-changes. and the reason i like the exchanges. it's a form of bidding. people can see what they are buying that would be a big help. when we were in the shoe business after 10 years my wife decided to bid out our insurance. we didn't know there was that much flexibility in insurance. she saved a bunch. she didn't take the low bid and go...