vice president biden came up here last night to close the deal with his senate democratic colleagues. we heard from some house democratic folks, they believe the vice president will come up to try to convince house democrats to support this vote in case some conservatives back away from it. they need democrats to support it in the house. bottom line, here was the key republican negotiator's final pitch for this bill. >> it took an imperfect solution to prevent our constituents from a very real financial pain. but in my view it was worth the effort. as i said this shouldn't be the model for how we do things around here but i think we can say we have done some good for the country. we've done some good for the country. we've taken care of the revenue side of this debate. >> reporter: and so mcconnell's point is in the new year the republicans can fight about out of control spending in washington.