committee jurisdiction issues but because the procedural rules of both the house and the senate make it virtually impossible to hold this bill together. congressional republicans know what the white house now knows. which is and the white house knew it all along. that the bill must originate in the house of representatives. it has to originate there. because it is a constitutional rule, not just a rule of the house, that all tax bills, all revenue bills, must originate in the house of representatives. so this talk of, democratic talk of, well, maybe the senate can pass the bill and then put pressure on the house to pass the bill. if the senate passes the bill in tact which is virtually impossible as it is in the current makeup of the senate with 47 republicans there, it would be what they call blue slipped in the house of representatives. it s an old tradition where they put a blue slip on the bill which is a rejection bill saying
that the bill must originate in the house of representatives. it has to originate there. because it is a constitutional rule, not just a rule of the house, that all tax bills, all revenue bills, must originate in the house of representatives. so this talk of, democratic talk of, well, maybe the senate can pass the bill and then put pressure on the house to pass the bill. if the senate passes the bill in tact which is virtually impossible as it is in the current makeup of the senate with 47 republicans there, it would be what they call blue slipped in the house of representatives. it s an old tradition where they put a blue slip on the bill which is a rejection bill saying in effect you violated the constitution. you and the senate have passed a revenue bill first. you passed it before the house of representatives, therefore, we won t even look at it, won t even consider it. those are the kinds of things the president s bill is up
coverage. look, the policy has always been the federal government does not fund abortions, whether directly or nor do we fund insurance policies that pay for abortion. that s always been the law. now, going back to senator nelson, you have to remember senator hatch and senator casey tried to run the stupak amendment in the senate and it was tabled. it never came up. it was tabled. this is a backup position. so go ahead. are you basically saying this health care reform bill overturns the hyde amendment? yes. if you read the bill. all right. well, then, let s go the other way. i ll be honest. i ve seen congress you guys can put an amendment on anything. now, i know you can t do it on the way this exact procedure is going to work. has there been any talk of, say, in two weeks or when you come back from the easter recess a commitment by the house democratic leadership to say, okay, let s try this amendment again on a separate budget bill
strzok and personally ordered the firing on friday. now, this agent earned infamy and the president s scorn for his exchanges with an fbi lawyer with whom he was having an affair, which included talk of, quote, an insurance policy, and stopping then-can did the trump s election. the texts and his animus toward trump earned strzok a recurring role in the president s tweet attacks. shimon prokupecz joins us with the significance of this. it really is. really coming at there s never really a good time, but really coming at a peculiar time when this russia investigation is still going full steam ahead. the president obviously has continued to attack the fbi, has continued to attack peter strzok. the question is why did this happen on friday. this is when his attorney says he was fired. it happened friday afternoon. the question that we all have is why. we know the political issues surrounding this investigation, surrounding him. but the real question as to why