We begin now with the intelligence report. Republicans can only afford to lose two gop senators if they want the tax bill passed. There are a few on the fence. Mike lee, bob corker, what about jeff flake . The question is, can they get it done . Well ask former utah congressman jason chaffetz. President trump clam slamming the fbi handling of the Hillary Clinton email scandal and he called it rig. That he has not seen anything like this before. Adam shapiro with the latest on the tax reform fight. The clock is ticking. Adam will this get through . Reporter when you speak to talk to people on capitol hill and in the administration they expect it to pass. We expect marco rubio to vote yes on this bill. He has gotten a decisional 300 for the Child Tax Credit refund. This comes against the payroll taxes, roughly zero to 25,000 in income. In simple terms, if you doesnt have federal income Tax Liability he wanted to increase the amount you could get back for a Child Tax Credit. He seems to h
Mcshane. Glen hall. Independent women forum had hadly heed manning. What time frame were looking at. Looking like it is going in his direction. So much hundred unusual that whether it would get done minutia. They want this thing finalized by today. You start debates next week. Midweek the plan still is to have the president signing into law which is interesting because once you get to the end of next week, it is not talked about as much today, again were talking about all the details of getting this particular bill passed, you run up against the other deadline, making sure the government is funded, not shutting down next friday. Still trying to get you will of that done before then seems to be the rule. Neil i hear you. Glen, one thing you immediately hear of, as soon as one concession to made to senator to keep him in line you tick others off, right. You will hear others how we pay for it. Neil corker, why he was a no vote going in. Might remain a no vote. That is the challenge. They
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The senate is in at 1 00 eastern time. Votes are scheduled at 2 00 p. M. Eastern. Majority leader harry reid and minority leader mcconnell had set a deadline of 3 00 p. M. When theyre planning to convene a caucus meetings and update members of the parties on a possible plan for taxes and spending on the new year. Will bring you live coverage of the senate on cspan2 started at 1 00 eastern. In the house, the return of 2 00 p. M. Youll be considering a number of pieces of legislation. What the live coverage of the house here and cspan. Next, retiring senator kent conrad reflects on his career in congress to. It is currently Senate Budget Committee Chairman and was first elected to the senate in 1986. This is about half an hour. Senator conrad, your Farewell Speech was yesterday. What is that like . It has been great. I had the Going Away Party the night before. A lot of my colleagues were there. Then the Farewell Speech, in which i had a chance to reflect on my service here. But also, to
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