saying he has unfinished business before he leaves in a month. i don t want to leave my successor a dirty barn. i want to clean the barn up a little bit before the next person gets here. can he clean the barn up? we are live in washington with more on his plans. hi, garrett. reporter: eric, apart from who the next speaker will be one of the big questions is, will this resignation fix anyone in extremely divided republican house? in the short time, boehner thinks he ll have a little more cooperation from some others around town, an apparent reference to the conservative members of his caucus who are trying to force him out. meaning a short time budget compromise is more likely to pass in the next few days before a partial government shutdown would occur. boehner didn t mince words, though. when talking about the uncompromising demands of the conservative wing of his party. absolutely they re unrealistic. we ve got groups here in town,
chamber back in to session. today 20 republicans and one democrat joined together, signed on to a letter to bring themselves back in to session on thursday and the house of delegates, which has a republican super majority, two thirds republican out of 100 members are coming back on thursday to hammer out a budget compromise. let me ask you about the deal that was apparently hatched, although maybe partially abandoned now to get senator puckett to do this. it seems like the terms of deal is he would get a tobacco commission job that would be appointed by the new republican senate and that appears to be a six figure salary job and clear the way for his daughter to have a judicial seat in virginia. i think that s part of why this received national attention today. it felt like that was the price he was selling ou medicaid expansion, selling out everything that goes with his seat. as that deal falls apart, any
the procedural rules in virginia allow nine senators to call the chamber back into session. today 20 republicans and one democrat joined together to bring themselves back into session on thursday and the house of delegates which is about two-thirds republican out of 100 members. they are also coming back on thursday to try to hammer out a budget compromise. let me ask you about the deal that was apparently hatched although it may have been partially abandoned now to get senator puckett to do this. it seemed like the initial terms of the deal were that he would get a tobacco commission job that could be appointed by the new republican majority in the senate and that he would also have the way cleared for his daughter to have a judicial seat in virginia. i think that is part of why this received national attention because it felt like that was the price he was selling out everything that goes with his
on the budget and appears that the budget deal potentially going forward would be one without medicaid expansion. the republicans are able to call the senate back into session and move at whatever speed they want to to get the budget done. am i right about that? they are basically in the driver s seat at this point? republicans have gotten together. the procedural rules in virginia allow nine senators to call the chamber back into session. today 20 republicans and one democrat joined together to bring themselves back into session on thursday and the house of delegates which is about two-thirds republican out of 100 members. they are also coming back on thursday to try to hammer out a budget compromise. let me ask you about the deal that was apparently hatched although it may have been partially abandoned now to get senator puckett to do this. it seemed like the initial terms of the deal were that he would
so obama s a problem for them. he s weakened that way, as well. it does give the opportunity for the republicans to stay on message on obamacare. it would be a big mistake if that s all they focused on. i think that you still may see immigration come up again. i know people have stead s a dead political issue. the republicans need to show that they can get something done. that they re not just the party the debt ceiling, we talked about the farm bill. you look at the recent budget compromise. there does seem to be at least this this air of bipartisanship. right. that s every once we did the debt ceiling, that s all congress really had to do until the elections. we are clear, there s no major hurdle that we are going to have to see a stop clock on saying the countdown to fiscal disaster. so that s their only responsibility, you know, that was their own responsibility left. now it just seems like it s going to be a lot of talk. we re out of time. women s hockey took our time