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Forward is what stands in its way is not votes, it's procedure. and more than procedure, it's norms. there is this idea in the house called the hastert rule named for denny hastert, the former speaker, now disgraced former speaker. and the rule was you could not bring a bill to the floor unless the majority of your own party supported it. under boehner and ryan that almost became, although not when they needed votes to pass something that needed to be past. you couldn't bring a bill to the floor unless it could pass with only republican votes. again on must do pieces of business. so this is cl...

Called the hastert rule named for denny hastert, the former speaker, now disgraced former speaker. and the rule was you could not bring a bill to the floor unless the majority of your own party supported it. under boehner and ryan that almost became, although not when they needed votes to pass something that needed to be past. you couldn't bring a bill to the floor unless it could pass with only republican votes. again on must do pieces of business. so this is clearly a bill if you brought to it the floor, it could get some coalition of democrats and republicans in both the house and the senat...

Under boehner's leadership. paul ryan says his nomination begins quote a new day in the house. the full house passed a budget deal as ryan takes the speaker's gavel. it aims to avoid any government shutdown through the near 2017. conservative opponents call the bill a fiscal monstrosity. it goes to the senate where approval is expected before the borrowing deadline runs out on tuesday. bernie sanders is calling for an end to federal prohibition on marijuana. he spoke to students at george mason university wednesday. he wants each state to regulate marijuana in the same way states govern sa...

Rights, it -- that often groups would put up the most corporate looking, the most conservative looking, the most mainstream looking spokes people and i said my god, this is going to have a huge impact over time. >> let me give you a great example of how the reaction to do the most negative angry thing doesn't always work. the supreme court refused to make a decision in the prop 8 case in california, the effect was to let it go. they did make a decision and wrote what i very happy, wonderful opinion affirming that we should not be discriminated against easily in the doma case. now in both cases...

Senator reid talked about his plan earlier on "today" so take a listen. >> it's what the republicans have demanded, wrapped up in a bow, but now the demands aren't enough. republican plan they know will not pass the senate of the united states. >> reporter: speaker boehner also talked about his own plan, cuts of about 1.2 trillion right off the top. the debt ceiling would be increased by about six months. the president has come out and says he doesn't want to support a short-term plan and then under boehner's plan, congress would have to come back to the table after that six months and do it a...