potentially devastating debt default that was just days away. it pushes two of congress fiercest fiscal fights well beyond the year s elections avoiding any potential standoffs between president obama and incoming house speaker paul ryan. the budget now heads to the senate where it s expected to be approved. now in just a few hours congressman paul ryan is expected to become the youngest house speaker in more than a century. the 45-year-old wisconsin republican easily defeated florida congressman daniel webster in yesterday s secret ballot vote of 200-43. now ryan is also expected to win the gavel when the entire house meets to approve the nomination later this morning. but the speaker-elect has already declared it, quote, a new day in the house of representatives. tomorrow, we are turning the page. we are not going to have a house that looks like it looked the last two years. we are going to move forward. we are going to unify.
and why he s been such a strong candidate all the way through. very smooth, very polished, unflustered by the attacks. maeve, john, maggie, stick around. of course, we re getting into the actuals with the people there on the stage. carly fiorina, what happened to her? last night, she came kind of back. what does that mean? rubio on his night. christie on his resurgence. and huckabee, on what his attack was through the night. stay with us. we re going to give you other news. the full house of representatives is officially set to approve wisconsin congressman paul ryan s nomination for house speaker. house republicans overwhelmingly nominating him in a secret ballot vote over daniel webster who might have originally incivilitied he didn t want the job but then would change house rules in order to run. a budget deal, the house approving a two-year partisan
communities where they have been located. we know they have been a job-destroying entity through the years. i worked so closely, bill, with them, and with the big three in detroit during the auto crisis. bill: 2008. we re all familiar with that. i had a glimpse into the uaw and what they were all about and i think workers, the great employees at volkswagen that are building outstanding vehicles understood that the uwa uaw was not going to be something that was constructive. bill: i have a lot to go through here. first from berlin. this is part of the works union out of the volkswagen there. on screen now. the conservatives stirred up massive antiunion sentiments. it is possible that the conclusion we draw this interference amounted to unfair labor practice. what do you think about that? let s describe what happened at the plant. the uaw tried to do this through card check. instead of having a secret ballot vote, they organized for two years inside the plant and tried to do so thr
bankruptcy. senator corker, who helped bring volkswagen to town when he was chattanooga s mayor, told workers that unionizing can only hurt them in the long run. so they can t help with wages. you have a fatality that s the most advanced environmentally sound facility in the world right here in chattanooga, tennessee. so what s this about? it s about one thing. it s about money and it s about power. i think, yes, that is correct, on both sides of this argument. finally, though, after a three-day secret ballot vote, they voted 712-626 against unionizing the tennessee plant. it s the problem of the uaw has a need for our money. they don t care about these guys. they really don t. i ve been there. we re thankful that it turned out the way it did, and now we can move forward and heal our wounds.
the white house, really wanted to do something about the debt. policy advisors that really wanted to do something about the deficit and then john boehner because he could not keep his own party in line. traditionally the leadership of the house can actually whip votes to his side but boehner had a party divided in 2010 when more tea partiers took over the house of representatives. jon: but i m not hearing anybody who seems to think that speaker boehner is in serious jeopardy of losing his speakership? well he is not in serious jeopardy of losing his speaker ship because you only have jon, 25 to 35 members of congress that could potentially vote against him. however you have had certain tea party organizations that wanted to do a secret ballot vote. they want to vote against boehner but don t want boehner to know who actually voted against him. when you have those types of signs from my standpoint,