be the tax return issue being a political mistake that cost him the tax reform agenda. you think that s why people are protesting? let me include one story in the new york times of a man who profit travel to the protest from new york with his wife and two children to go to the march. they made it in order to help his 12-year-old son james with stress that he has dealt with since the election. how old is james? 12. you really think that his issues stem from the results of a president election? a little bit of self-examination into their own home. perhaps offered james more recreation and structure. and respective sandra smith. as we are on the eve of when our taxes are truly do come in tomorrow. my goal is to have people look
president and congress. and the reality is, people need to understand that this is not just atmospheric. this will raise significant doubts about their ability to work together on things like tax reform. because one of the reasons why they were so anxious to do health care first is to lower the revenue baseline so that they would be able to put together their push through their tax reform plan under reconciliation. if those tax cuts are not approved for health care, this entire tax reform agenda is really, really in doubt. so, again, the chaos that s going to come out of this is going to be something epic. governor dean, let me go back to what we said at the top of the hour and what s changed in the last 24 hours. one thing that s changed is essential benefits that were guaranteed under obamacare that were mandated for insurance companies to cover certain kinds of elements and conditions and even maternity care. if that is now scaled back, taken out, and its up to the
the most done, given the fact trump has a republican congress, he s sort of at his maximum political capital right now, even with sort of middling approval rating, it s the chance to do the biggest things in his presidency so if health care goes down, it s going to impact infrastructure, it s going to impact the tax reform agenda and it s going to impact his political capital and the sense of his political strength and his ability to sort of put the republican party together. that s why, you know, and it is interesting that ryan, speaker ryan is putting this on the floor on thursday. you usually don t put legislation on the floor unless you re extremely confident that you have the votes there, and look, the republicans, ryan has done a pretty good job of pushing things through republicans in general when they have been in power in the last,
bill: here is fox news alert. live look at floor of the house. they are getting ready to vote on $2 trillion worth of legislation. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel is counting all the pennies live up there on the hill. good morning to you. washup first in the house today? lay this out? reporter: bill, first up is a tax break package which is the house is due to vote on in procedural vote this hour. it would extend some two dozen or so tax breaks, make them permanent. it is a $650 billion package. it will also delay three obamacare related taxes cadillac, medical device tax and insurance sales tax. house speaker calls this an important deal. this is one of the biggest steps toward rewrite of our tax code that we ve made in many years. it will help us start a pro-growth bold tax reform agenda in 2016. reporter: bottom line the house will vote today on tax break package. tomorrow they vote on government funding package.
trying to for years to get. certainty in the tax code so that we can create more jobs. i think this is one of the biggest steps for the rewrite of our tax code that we have made in many years and it will help us start a pro-growth bold tax reform agenda in 2016. lastly, i have said i inherited this process. let me be the first to say, i don t think this is the way government should work. this is not how appropriations should work. so we played the cards that we were dealt with as best as we possibly could, and inheriting a process i know we need to restore to regular order and i believe we ve made the best of it. we listened to our members, we ve let our committees take the lead and i am pleased that we ve been able to accomplish so many things for the american people and i look forward to in 2016, just like we have in the last six weeks, getting congress working back on the way it should be working, getting back to what we call regular order. that is what 2016 is going to be about, is