morning. hi, everybody. i m thomas roberts. i appreciate i don t time. right now on capitol hill, the snoot expected to vote any moment on the emergency funding bill of last night, aimed a eed overting a government shutdown keeping the bill running until november. the good news, most of america has gone to bed and not witnessing the bickering and rancor evidenced in this chamber. i m sure all your tea party friends are going to be very enthusiastic that for 4/10 of a percent, you perhaps changed your vote. luke russert joins us live from capitol hill. what are the sticking points on the house bill for the democrats who control the senate? reporter: all right, here. take the people through this process, tom. essentially, the government runs out of money september 30th. congress needs to appropriate money to get congress from september 30th to november 18th. in order to do that, they re not fighting about how much money the government s going to spend, like there is i
what we had in this bill was paid for on the senate version, the higher number that wasn t an offset for those payments. we have a spending problem because we talked about now for a year and a half and everybody knows how big the deficit is and this would add to the deficit. those funds are going to get to the people who have had the disasters. my own district has experienced that this year, that alabama, missouri, the northeast was just hammered by irene. those things are going to happen. it s a matter of how do we pay for it. speaker boehner reportedly threatened to take committee chairmanships away from some folks who didn t support the bill. majority leader kantor said he was confident the stop gap measure would pass and in the hours before it did not pass. what does the failure say about mr. boehner s ability to get the rank in file to follow into line? certainly there s a great debate right now this this country about how our money is spent here. there s a huge deba
everything in this bill is paid for. the idea for a big boost in construction is supported by the afl-cio and the chamber of commerce. those two don t get along on much, but they agree we should rebuild america. and by the way, thanks to the reforms that we put into place when we start rebuilding america, we are going change how business is done. no more earmarks and no more bridges to nowhere. we are going to cut the red tape that prevents the projects from getting started as quickly as possible. we will set up a fund to attract private dollars and issue loans based on two criteria. how badly is a construction project needed and how much good will it do for the community. those are the only things we should be thinking about and not politics. by the way, that s an idea supported by a massachusetts democrat and a texas republican. it s a good idea. my question is, what s congress waiting for? why is it taking so long. the bridge behind us happens to connect the state that is
tensions swell as the stakes grow higher, especially for perry tonight. also, building a bridge for the 2012 re-election fight. president obama heads to cincinnati. talk of infrastructure in need of repair. the bridge that connects the home states of john boehner and mitch mcconnell. fears of another government shutdown loom yet again after a temporary funding bill. not even a full-fledged one. goes south. a rare bipartisan rebuke for the republican leadership. it s thursday, september 22nd, 2011. this is the daily rundown. i m back in washington. i m chuck todd. let s get to my first read of the morning. we begin with orlando. all eyes on the political world today are on the two battleground states that could decide the 2012 presidential race. florida and ohio. first in florida, nine republicans gather in orlando tonight for the sixth presidential debate. the third in 15 days. and the third match-up between rick perry and mitt romney. the pressure for tonight s debate
shutdown loom yet again after a temporary funding bill. not even a full-fledged one. goes south. a rare bipartisan rebuke for the republican leadership. it s thursday, september 22nd, 2011. this is the daily rundown. i m back in washington. i m chuck todd. let s get to my first read of the morning. we begin with orlando. all eyes on the political world today are on the two battleground states that could decide the 2012 presidential race. florida and ohio. first in florida, nine republicans gather in orlando tonight for the sixth presidential debate. the third in 15 days. and the third match-up between rick perry and mitt romney. the pressure for tonight s debate is clearly on perry whose debate performance last week in tampa was enough to worry some republicans. especially donors. already eyeing the general election. in case there was any doubt that we re going to see a slug fest tonight, yesterday the top two republicans did nothing but pummel each other. it started simply