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Find the law to be anathema is willing to acknowledge this. the big question now is what happens next. you see a lot of moves the administration has made, a lot of moves republicans have been calling for, undercut the premise or purpose of what obamacare does, and as long as they don't have a replacement plan in the works any time in the near future legislatively, what is the end game here? i think that's an open question. the bipartisan deal right now answers some of the questions at least in the short term, but the question becomes can the bipartisan deal actually become law. we're hearing f...

>> it was used for non-budgetary items until the mid-80s, when senator robert byrd felt that it was really being abused and sponsored a rule that is now known as the byrd rule. >> okay. >> since that period, anything that is not purely budgetary has been available for getting rid of those provisions and that has been followed since then. >> we're not asking you to prejudge. i know you don't want to backseat drive this situation, but it does seem as if democrats are not trying to put the entire health care bill through this process. they only want to do the quote/unquote fixes. just looking at ...

Reporter for t"the washington post" and karen finney is the democratic strategist and msnbc contributor. cici, as i understand it, the senate was simply say, okay, here are the fixes. take a look at the fixes. we would agree and pass through reconciliation thereby triggering the house to go ahead and take the first step of passing the original senate bill up or down. is that about right? >> that's the most likely scenario, david. and when we talk about fixes, what we're saying here is recall last year the house and senate had different versions of the health care bill. negotiators spent much o...