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Consideration for that the senate should agree to vote on the repeal of tmedical excise tax, which would pass and then we can move on is a way out. >> that is what the americans want. >> jason? >> republicans don't have the votes in the senate. they need to pick battle the they can win, i think they could win on the medical device tax and on the vitter amendment which says make the middle class do the same -- >> if we figure out the presidential caddy is a nonessential employment -- >> the resolution -- there is a way the resolution will work if the republicans only seize victory from the jaws...

Kicked staff out of meeting, they're talking about their health care." and ezra klein in "washington post" "going along with the vitter amendment is tantamount to a massive pay cut to congressional staffers who need health insurance." bill shuster, when asked, said "there are definitely some people that are very much not for it," and there you have it, it has come to this. republicans are hoping to score rhetorical points with the more extreme factions of their party by betting on the health care and the lives of their staff members, all of which will do absolutely nothing, we should be clear,...

House republicans have also tried to tie a couple of things to a continuing resolution, including a medical device tax, the addition of a conscience clause and a vitter amendment, which would force the congress and their staffs to participate in the health exchanges. at which point do you think they put a clean continuing resolution on the floor for a vote? >> reporter: that's the question now. and i spoke with house members right after this plan was announce the, right before they were going to go vote on it. and they themselves really don't know what the next step is. the senate has already,...

Outrageous. can you give us the latest you've been hearing? i know the house has been voting in the last few minutes. >> reporter: they've been voting on the issue of conferees. but as harry reid said he will table it. what is interesting, i spoke to republican members and they were caught off guard by speaker boehner's motion not expecting him for the conferencees on the cr. they are going to have a press conference around 1:00. they want to continue this message. they want to see the government open and basic fairness for all americans. kind of this push of the vitter amendment. but in terms...

Will understand what this was all about. >> beyond the obstruction and delay, house republicans have also tried to tie a couple thins to a continuing resolution, including a medical device tax, the addition of a conscience clause, to opt out of contraceptive coverage and the vitter amendment which would force the president and his staff and members of congress and their staff to participate in the health care exchanges. at what point do you think the republicans put a clean continuing resolution on the floor for a vote? >> reporter: i spoke with house members right after this plan was announce...