this week when a state investigator charged he accepted a $25,000 cash payment after switching his support to which michelle bachmann. incorrect. jackie. ron paul. ron paul is correct. instant bonus, jackie, which candidate was soreenson backing before. bachmann. back plan is correct. another 300 for jackie. 300 point question, write in that quote tension is at an all time high at the capitol, this republican senator a potential candidate sent an invitation to both colleagues. rand paul. rand ball is correct. for 300 points this republican neb of congress took heat for sending a tweet thursday less than ten minutes after the capitol hill shooting that read quote. jackie. ted cruz. incorrect. this republican sent a tweet that said stop the violent rhetoric, president obama, nancy pelosi, hashtag, disgusting. this is potentially for the game. 3, 2, 1.
during the 2008 presidential campaign. oh, i know this. one name. 3, 2, 1, time t. correct answer is samantha powers. for 200 points, 26, 24 or 21. tell me, what is the number of states that have refused to take part in the medicaid expansion provisions of obama care? 26. michael says 26 t. answer is 26. 200 points for the champion. 200-point question, we will get the last one in, veterans assembling at washington, d.c. memorial tuesday in protest of the government shutdown were being egged on by which iowa republican congressman? jackie. steve king. steve king is correct. it brings us to the end of the 200-point ruopp t. score, jackie 200, victoria 200, our returning champion zero. this is a close game as we head to the ph.d. round, michael you
that can stay closed. while we work out our differences here in washington, children should not be denied the treatment. i believe that senator read must take up this legislation today for the sake of those children and their health. that was eric cantor making the days for nih funding earlier this week. since then, republicans have offered up more bills to open specific parts of the government later in the week, at least one of those bills will be voted on later today. senate democrats and the president will not have any of it they say. you cannot pick or choose. either the government is opened or it s not. let s talk about this piecemeal strategy republicans are pursuing. is it grain gaining traction? is it buying them any time? or are people seeing right lou it? i think the way to set this up, the hill newspaper, jackie used to work for the tr hymn. i worked for the rival role call.
steele. i want to pick up on the point ump making about the process. do you see a way for house speaker boehner to just say, look, nancy, help me get the numbers and work outside of the 63 or so members on the republican side who are really a part of the tea party caucus who are not looking to move forward on this, cut the deal with nancy and put it in the hands of the democrats to get this thing out of the house and back to the senate at this point? well the democrats will vote for any, they have already said we will vote en massee for the republican s budget number. that s what should be debated here. i don t think any of us will vote for anything else. nor should we. pause that s giving up democratic government in this country. that s saying a minority in the house or in the senate for that matter, but right now in the house, can blackmail the majority. and get its way and that you can t do. i mean, imagine if the senate democrats suddenly said, we will not raise the debt ceiling.
they think they re going to push him to some kind of capitulation there. even if he does, it s going to get to the white house and it s going to be there. it s amazing. if the end game is the medical device tax being repealed, the idea we had to shut down the federal government and flirt with the default to get rid of a medical device extra tax. it seems absurd. i guess that in a way they have a victory. they have their funding levels attached to this bill and i was talking to republicans this week who are, they re not exactly moderate, but they re institutionalists. they have been there a while. they say a couple years ago, this would have been huge. the victory is there in that this whole sequester level spending. the democrats take, a lot of republicans have embraced and learned to love. is there an out for republicans to say, hey, you know what, we got sequester level spending. that s our victory. does that exist? that s a tough sell. i talk to a lot of conservative was s