their opposition to obama care. they still have tools at their disposal as any senator does to slow down this train. ted cruz and his aides they are being very cagey whether they will use those tools. if he does, you can be sure, according to several senate democratic sources i ve talked to that senate democratic leader harry reid will force him to do so to on the to this in the view of all public to have him come to the senate floor and i say i object because of x, y and z effectively trying to make him a pariah when it comes to wall street and the economy. it if it does pass the house of representatives before it comes to the senate, there are less roadblocks that could delay passage. 60 senators will support harry reid and mitch mcconnell but the delay process could be a few more days. no one wants that. that is an important point and a good point to button on, wolf. by all accounts, this is just a
for around december 13th, raising the debt ceiling through february 7th and funding the government through january 15th, and the only little concession at this point looks like income verification for the citizens plying for the subsidiaries in obama care, it s a far cry from what house republicans were asking for two and a half weeks ago. defuncting of obama care. could you vote for this? i m waiting to see what the details of the agreement are. but certainly i ve got big concerns. neither party has made big concessions on this issue. and we ve failed over the last couple of years to have a debt comission that provides real results to the american people. the biggest issue for me is if we re going to set up a separate committee or take this into conference, i want some guarantees for the american public that congress and the president is going to get its job done this time. based on the contours again,
income will have to have their income verified. those are the con fewers of the deal. now we expect as i said the senators to announce it. the next question is how is this going to get voted on? house republican leaders are meeting as we speak, ashleigh, to finalize what we believe is going to be the process that they re going to use, which is that the house will actually take up the senate bill first. because it s just procedurally, it will expedite the process. at this point, it does look like all of the road blocks with reregard to the vote counting are not there. the road block is now really the block and calendar. that is what we re going to see how it plays out and how quickly they can get this done. and there are hurdles for them to potentially cross. but at least when you say the road blocks that were there yesterday would not be there
gone on for every year and hasn t. they ll restart it. i hear you. stand by if you will. for a moment i want to bring in wolf blitzer. forgive me if i am not popping a champagne cork at this point. i see february 7th and january 15th as potentially the days that we need to block off our vacations because we re going to be in the same boat. am i too cynical? reporter: no you have a right to be cynical about that kind of stuff. we ve gone through this so many times in the past. let s see what happens come january and february. if on the other hand, house senate budget confer rees can work out some long-term grand bargain type issues, entitlement reform and tax reform, but that deadline, there s no hard and fast rules or enforcement mechanisms along that line, let s say they can, maybe they ll be encouraged to go
for opening up the government. i m not doing major concessions for raising the nation s debt ceiling. he would talk about how he s not going to pay a ransom. if all of this works out, president obama will largely be getting what he wants and that s not something going to go over well with a lot of republicans. but at this point, he s got the upper hand. if i could for a moment, jim stand by. dana, i ve got to ask you about this notion that the budget deadline is set at mid-december. when you put the calendar up, there was no date circled or hard and fast guidelines on what that exactly means. and judging from the past, it seems that this government, democratic and republican can t seem to be do anything unless they have guns held to their heads. and that little calendar didn t look like there was anything on the line. reporter: we ll see. the going into this, our understanding was that there weren t going to be really specific parameters for what