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This law to some degree. a lot of these members who voted for the upton by voted for obama care, of course. so they want this law to work in some fashion. i think that's why you saw a lot of them voting for the upton bill. i think they want, you know, they may not trust the administration as much as they once did to actually get this law working and to the extent that they can actually make it work and do something that the administration maybe has failed to do, i think they finally see kind of a mandate for them to get involved kind of take up the effort and do things that maybe the administr...

Because of obama care. and lawmakers are hearing from those constituents. that may be part of the reason why 39 house democrats voted for a republican bill the upton bill that would allow americans to keep their health insurance plans even if they don't meet obamacare standards. president obama had announced a day earlier that his administration would craft an administrative fix to allow people to keep their health insurance. still, those 39 house democrats likely feeling the pressure from their home districts broke with the president, broke with their leadership, and voted for the upton bill....

>> it is disgraceful, greta. and, yes, we can take it all the way to, you know to the white house and they say executive privilege and obama done that to us on a number of times. they did that on the solyndra case and i'm on energy and commerce committee and oversight committee, we are right there. that's where those emails that came out about this healthcare.gov and we knew now. we know that they lied to us. and they lied to the american people. so, this bill that we passed today, of course, the president comes out the day before, tries to reelement that with some fiat or executive order or w...

The bill today and it's for one year. the bill today, fred upton the republican bill says the same thing except one thing allow people who weren't cancelled who weren't part of that group they could buy into it if it's offered. >> that's right. >> the president said he would veto it why does he care? >> it's not just a one year fix because the whole -- the thing is that the fix that the president put forward yesterday actually could hurt the law. probably will hurt the law. because the whole idea of these substandard policies they have to be phased out to make the financing of obamacare work g...

Who supported this bill through law makes everyone realize exactly what they supported. >> this effort in the house, this upton bill, it's similar to what the president a saying, right, if you can keep your plan. the white house is saying we're going to veto this if this ends up on his desk. harry reid has no intention of taking up these bills in the senate. what did that say when the white house -- does it just reek of politics? >> this is like the 39 bills the house republicans have passed that would help on the economy, they go nowhere in the senate? that happens when you have a split congr...