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This mess again. >> greta: what is the plan? stand by for the weekend? are all of you in town? >> scheduled votes for saturday and sunday and plan on being here next week until it's done and i can tell you conservatives are going to stay engaged and stay leaning in the fight providing positive solutions to keep our nation in a direction that we know will be the right direction for our country in the future. >> greta: the "wall street journal" came out against many of you conservative freshmen senators around against the tea party and you were quoted assaying it was an interesting op ed opinion...

That would, you know, sort of be tacked onto this later? why hasn't there been any talk of that kind of compromise? >> well, there has been, but you and i both know, chuck, that tomorrow never comes in washington. promises are always made, and they never get fulfilled. the thought of we'll do it later -- >> hold on. >> it doesn't resolve the issue. >> i think a lot of people thought, congressman, that your original amendment wouldn't come through. and i can tell you a lot of people thought there's no way speaker pelosi will go -- and she did go through with this, kept her end of the bargain. w...

Is increasingly high. you get hit from both sides. centerism is tough, being willing to say to your own party, i disagree with this party decision is a tough decision. >> is that part of why all of you are leaving? >> clearly frustration in trying to get things done. >> absolutely. >> that and the time constraint. i compare the voting card to a dialysis machine. >> okay. listen -- >> my grandchildren, i can't be or need to be when i have this job. >> the enormous amount of money to be raised for campaigns and enormous amount of money spent against you in campaigns which is taking one sliver of...

I compare the voting card to a dialysis machine. >> okay, listen. >> it's an enormous amount of money that you have to raise for campaigns. it's taking one sliver of your record and often times misrepresenting it. >> let me ask you a couple viewer questions. asked if they are going to get a job as a lobbyist when they leave? >> if i did, it would be as an unpaid lobbyist. >> i've been a lawyer for 28 years, i've been in congress for 12 years. if i become a lobbyist, that's strike three, i think. >> an unpaid lobbyist for what? >> causes. >> that's important. the first point is the well taken. ...

Out of that and those sorts of program pro-growth tax reductions do have the advantage. that's why we ended up with a surplus in the late '90s. you cut the capital gains tax tie deficit commission. >> yeah. >> that was voted on in the senate and had seven republican co-sponsors decide to vote against it. >> yeah. >> some had to do with the fact -- was it correct your organization -- you were going to rate it on the voting card as supporting the potential tax increase, is that correct? >> certainly. i called each senator and walked through what had happened. many misled. they thought it was lik...