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Of americans, particularly after assurances they heard from me that if they had a plan that they liked, they could keep it. and to those americans, i hear you loud and clear. i said that i would do everything we can to fix this problem and today i'm offering a an idea that will help do it. the bottom line is, insurers can extend current plans that would otherwise be canceled into 2014 and americans whose plans have been canceled can choose to reenroll in the same kind of plan. >> for a year. >> yeah. if you like your health care that i used to describe as substandard from bad apples, you can k...

Have their own proposals. where does house democrat proposal come into play here and how much support is that expected to garner? >> it will get a lot of support from house democrats. it's basically what pelosi and the leadership is doing in order to try and get folks not to support the upton bill. this has now become an issue for 2014. that's where i think there's a lot of anger from house democrats, alex, this is going to be relitigated again today. you know house republicans will schedule these types of votes on the future. while nancy pelosi was able to hold her caucus together and done a ...

The rug has been pulled out from under them. we hope you're right. wendell potter, thank you very much. appreciate it. >> thank you, martha. gregg: meanwhile a live look at the house floor. the house is pushing ahead with its own solution to cleaning up this mess. lawmakers getting set today to vote on the so-called, upton bill. at least one senate democrat, who has her own proposal says the president's fixes are a good start but needs more to be done. >> the president's guidance is a great step forward. i have a bill. there are other bills that have been filed. we'll be working across the ais...

The senate did, is not going to happen. frankly, i'll make clear, we have no intention of ever going into conference on the senate bill. >> come on, congressman, we have to be fair. no one in the world has ever read this bill. how can you expect it to be brought to the floor? our friends did some math, it would only take 13 hours to read the thing. that's not that long. you could read u list ease and it would take a lot longer. ultimately, this is just an excuse for the obstruction that we've been seeing since day one in the obama administration into the newt gingrich area. >> you're right. it...

Did the inherent authority of hss secretary kathleen sebelius and added of transition policy in assessing whether to extend it. questioning the constitutionality of it all. >> i'm highly skeptical that they can do this administrativ administratively. i just don't see within the law their ability to do that. >> i wonder if he has the legal authority to do this since this is a true congressional bill. >> reporter: this past summer when the mandate provision his aide cited the authority again without invoking some power to provide "transitional relief" to selected citizens during the early stages...