access to it. that is essential to women s reproductive health care, and it s really a question of public health as well. today, house democratic leader nancy pelosi railed on republicans for the blunt amendment vote. here it is. the republicans are kicking off women s history month by bringing the blunt amendment to the floor in the united states senate. instead of talking about jobs, which is what the american people expect and deserve us to be doing, what they sent us here to do, we ve moved on to the blunt amendment. a blunt sweeping overreach into women s health. part of the republican agenda of disrespecting women s health issues. caroline, this seems to be going far beyond women s health issues, and now becoming a cultural issue about the standing of women in our society. how do you see it? well, i see it as a coordinated campaign, because it s happening at the federal level in congress, not just with this amendment, but other
our health care system but on jobs the whole economy in our country. we re not sure how it is going to pass. senator mitch mcconnell has taken the lead in pulling this up. it looks like for now it is attached to an aviation bill on the floor now. it will probably come up as an amendment vote. hopefully, we ll have a couple of days to debate. harry reid could try to table it tomorrow. the vote could be tomorrow, thursday or sometime next week. greta: what would be the strategy for him to want to table it? you don t have the votes to pass it any way. right. he may want to get it out of the wait. he can table it and the vote would come up right way otherwise, we can debate the health care bill throughout this week and part of next week. justu> depends on how much the democrats want to hear republicans talk about how bad obamacare is. we can talk about the 500 waivers he gave last a lot to
our health care system but on jobs the whole economy in our country. we re not sure how it is going to pass. senator mitch mcconnell has taken the lead in pulling this up. it looks like for now it is attached to an aviation bill on the floor now. it will probably come up as an amendment vote. hopefully, we ll have a couple of days to debate. harry reid could try to table it tomorrow. the vote could be tomorrow, thursday or sometime next week. greta: what would be the strategy for him to want to table it? you don t have the votes to pass it any way. right. he may want to get it out of the wait. he can table it and the vote would come up right way otherwise, we can debate the health care bill throughout this week and part of next week. justu> depends on how much the democrats want to hear republicans talk about how bad obamacare is. we can talk about the 500 waivers he gave last a lot to
government s shutting down again. i want to get right now to our cnn congressional correspondent. sh this is a very big news night. the government is preparing for a shutdown at midnight. what happened and what is going on right now? to put it plainly, the government will shut down in two hours. there s no other way around it. right now as it currently stands, the issue is not the support for the bill in the united states senate. the issue is senate procedure and they basically just ran out of time. rand paul made it clear. senate leaders, republicans and democrats saying we can t give you a deal or other senators will want an amendment vote as well and this whole thing could unravel. senator paul is going to make the entire senate clock run as long as it needs to to get a vote. here s one way this is actually put to me by a senior republican aide that sums it up. this is a remarkably stupid moment. the fact that they ve almost
will move to final passage. the interesting element is the timing. essentially the government shut down. because senator paul is not given his amendment vote. and they ran out of time. not because there s a specific policy issue that people are trying to force. not a large group of one party or another trying to make a major change to domestic or foreign policy. because they ran out of time. this is what happens when you release a 652 page budget deal. that incorporates major spending on the defense side. $90 billion in disaster relief. tax extenders and healthcare. into a single deal. release it an hour before the day you re supposed to vote. these problems happen. because of that, we re in a shut down. and senators are trying to get themselves out of it. sorting through the details live for us. great deal of uncertainty. we ll stay in touch. all right.