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Republican congressman tim holtz camp who was with ted cruz for enchilada night. said anybody who would vote for that would garantee --landestine meeting in the basement of for tiera coast, met to see what house speaker john boehner had planned. >> we know the morning meeting began with funeral parlor owner turned congressman steve sutherland of florida led his fellow republicans in singing "amazing grace. the vitter amendment which amounts to a salary cut for lawmakers and their much less

Came out and said that it doesn't do anything to obama care and it put a lot of heat on the republicans in the house; is that right? >> that may be true in part. a lot of people i talked to were supportive. quite frankly our amendment causes people not to support it members are going to have to pay more. there are members on our sidenned at democratic side who don't like that. i think it's helpful in terms of the fight against obama care. if you have a statute that imposes burdens on society and then politically connected can get delays, waivers, or what have you, then, it makes it more diffic...

Me. >> looks politically bad. >> makes it very clear how determined they are to protect the political elite in washington. >> well, they say, what happens if they have a brain drain or something if that is if the vitter amendment is part of it. do you know what the people's reaction these are the brains that gave us obama care. these are the brains that are screwing up policy over and over and over again. >> so i guess we don't have to worry about that anyway, tomorrow we will see what happens in the house and the senate. thank you both. >> thank you. >> thank you for being with us tonight. st...

Me. >> looks politically bad. >> makes it very clear how determined they are to protect the political elite in washington. >> well, they say, what happens if they have a brain drain or something if that is if the vitter amendment is part of it. do you know what the people's reaction these are the brains that gave us obama care. these are the brains that are screwing up policy over and over and over again. >> so i guess we don't have to worry about that anyway, tomorrow we will see what happens in the house and the senate. thank you both. >> thank you. >> thank you for being with us tonight. st...

Effort. there's only one problem. senate democrats have made it clear, it has no chance of survival on the other side of the capital. i'm joined now by democratic senator, john tester of monday. good afternoon, sir. even as you join us, your colleague, senator david vitter, was just -- is now debating the vitter amendment, which, of course, the house speaker plans to table as part of the condition for reopening the government, and for raising the debt ceiling. what's your reaction to the news today? >> pretty darn irresponsible, i'll tell you that. i mean, we're playing with fire. we've talked...