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Joins us again. thanks so much for joining us. i know you've got a lot of protesters behind you, so this is not easy for you and we thank you for bearing with us. what is the instance of this vote today, because it seems to me that it's mostly çsymbolic. >> actually, it's not symbolic, andrea. what we're doing, we have gone 48 hours straight. we're not only debating, we plan on taking a vote. this is not only a historic vote, we're allowing for much, much debate on the bill. so we've gone 48 hours, taking up amendments. we're planning on going through at least 38 amendments. we're planning o...

>> oh, i think they would be proud of you. democratic state senator urpenback joins us now from a very safe book shelf somewhere in an undisclosed location. you were a great sport with colbert. >> yeah, in chicago. >> what's your reaction, senator, to the limiting of debate and the fact that they're proceeding to a vote on the house side? >> well, i would hope that they wouldn't limit debate. we don't want toç see debate limited anywhere, whether we agree or disagree about what the other side is saying, debate is all about democracy. and it's important to remember that a representative get a...

About $30 billion. and after emergency meeting last week, pumped that number up to $61 billion. what they promised was 100. no, sorry, didn't mean it. now today more. this is the kind of thing that beltway media supposedly loves, but nobody is saying beep about it. under john boehner, republicans promised to bring open rules back to the house, essentially meaning that democrats would be able to offer amendments on bills and they wouldn't limit debate. after breaking this pledge for most of the last few weeks, republicans under john boehner today finally decided to allow open rules. what they g...

About $30 billion. and after emergency meeting last week, pumped that number up to $61 billion. what they promised was 100. no, sorry, didn't mean it. now today more. this is the kind of thing that beltway media supposedly loves, but nobody is saying bleep about it. under john boehner, republicans promised to bring open rules back to the house, essentially meaning that democrats would be able to offer amendments on bills and they wouldn't limit debate. after breaking this pledge for most of the last few weeks, republicans under john boehner today finally decided to allow open rules. what they ...

Senators might be coming back to wisconsin at night, staying in their own homes, and then going back to chicago early in the morning. so apparently state troopers were sent out to their homes, but didn't find anyone. can you clarify that? >> yeah. state troopers were sent out to take a look, to look at -- to find the state senators. they were not at home. we don't know where they are. they're still in hiding. but the public pressure is mounting. look, the public pressure statewide to have these senators return to work, to get back to work, to actually debate on the bill is significantly mounti...