happening. what is happen something that he s losing his majority. d s are becoming r s in the congress. greta: and i gotta go. sorry to cut you off. thank you dick. next, republican congressman mike pence said republicans can stop the health care bill from passing the house. is there a republican plan? find out from him, next. did someone just [ inaudible ] governor huckabee will be here. okay, sweetie, open wide and say ahh. ahh ahh ahh ahh ahh ahh ahh ahh ahh ahh ahh ahh ahh ahh ahh h, ahh ahh ahh ahh ahh ahh hh, ahh ahh ahh ahh, ahh, ahh ahh, ahh, ahh, ahh [ male announcer ] at ge,
amendment on the right to life only got 45 votes in the senate. whatever they promised prolife democrats, whatever prolife americans may think can be done to fix the senate bill it can t be fixed once the president s signature goes on that senate bill that s law. greta: the house democrats in favor of the stupak language would have to hope when the bill comes back to the house and the senate the senate says okay we are going to change the language? is that what they have to do, hope for best? the parliamentarian s decision says what house members would have to do even those that object to the sorted backroom deals that are included in the senate bill even those that object to the abortion coverage included in the bill would have to vote for it and see it signed into law and accept a promise that some reconciliation bill would be accepted by the senate. greta: that s it the promise. they would have to expect that the senate promise would
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merits and not through sweetheart deals, then i would think the president could this bill, if you will, to the members of the senate. he knows em all. the problem is not the house it s the senate and its 60 vote majority or super majority they always claim they have to have for everything. greta: the leaving for asia on the 18th. what i understand what legislation can t wait until he gets back? greta: these are not my deadlines believe me. you would be satisfied to let this wait until he returns? i i mean he s not going to be there forever. even if the house passes it, you re going to what they re saying is house you do it the then we ll sign it. then we can say we have something done so this promise we ll fix things later doesn t
love to see national health care bill. we want to see health care reform for the nation. seems like every time we try to propose something the house would like or we think is reasonable it is always we can t get 60 votes so we can t do that that argument is wearing thin with them and the president is gonna have to weigh in and get a bill if that s what he wants. greta: what do the president do? there s different procedures you can use. some like reconciliation they talk about 51 votes simple majority. you can do a corrections bill. enrollment correction bill which needs only 51 votes. greta: would that be almost the same time. what the bill says, it does not become law unless there s other legislation that becomes law. there s a protection in there that s what members are looking for. the president worked with most of the senate. if this legislation is of value, and can stan on its own