it appeared in the morning that house republicans were going to be in revolt they were not going to accept the verdict from the senate in that deal that had been negotiated. and of course from the frantic days of last weekend, mitch mcconnell and joe biden, after talks had collapsed between the democratic, harry reid, and what is it getting to be? 21 hours or so ago? 89 to 8, an extraordinary vote with only five republicans and democrats in the senate voting against that. we thought that the bill really, just enormous margin almost unheard of margin coming into the house. john boehner would be able to point at that and say look we ll be able to fight another day. the writing on the wall. let s put it on the floor, in two month s time there will be opportunities for us to really push for the spending cuts that
institution, tax cuts pay for themselves. you can t find a main stream economist today in america that will acknowledge that problem. this is a reasonable step forward, vote for this measure and let s get on to fundamental tax reform. gentleman s time has expired. gentleman from michigan mr. camp. i reserve. gentleman reserves gentleman from michigan mr. levin. representative richard neal, speaking live on the house floor as we wait for the up or down vote the bill passed in the senate today, so many hours later we do expect that vote to happen. we re watching them debate that on the floor. joining us now s one of those who will be voting very shortly, congressman peter welch. thank you for joining us. thank you knew what. what is your understanding of how the bill will pass? it is going to pass the
them meeting their needs, meeting their challenges, honoring their aspirations. this great middle class is the back bone of our democracy, let s support our democracy, vote aye on this strong bipartisan legislation which passed 89-8 in the united states senate. let s step up to the plate to do that in the house of representatives. i urge my colleagues to vote aye and yield back the balance of my time. leader nancy pelosi there, like so many democrats, wanting this bill to come to the floor of the house for a vote. an up and down vote. she will get that in just about an hour or so. as part of that although was asked throughout the day as to how many democrats she could bring in her caucus as so well known, leader nancy pelosi able to whip her caucus know exactly who will be voting yae or nay,
the course of the last several weeks, going over the cliff would make it more feasible for republicans to vote. because after all, after midnight they were not voting to raise taxes, they re voting to cut taxes. and after not violating the pledge of grover norquist and not violating their core believes and their core principles they did have some problems with the lack of spending cuts in this bill. and that is what they were talking about earlier today, trying to put something, amend the senate bill add spending cuts. that really would have been both a legislative and because of the mechanics, a new congress being sworn in on thursday. but 236, now, i m going to say we could probably declare this bill passed. all right, 217 here luke you know you have to feel quite gratified, too, you have been there all day in the capitol,
votes needed to advance an amended bill. joining us now from the capitol is john stanton, washington bureau chief, okay john, do we have a deal when this comes to the floor for a vote in about an hour or so? yeah it looks like they have the final votes for it. it should be about 217-218, which is a minimum number of votes, essentially 250 or 60 depending on how many come along with speaker boehner and part of his leadership team. and it looks likes nancy pelosi will be able to deliver, did a fairly good job of selling this to progressives in particular who had a lot of complaints about provisions in the bill. so it looks like they will have a pretty strong showing. you know john the conservative analyst charles