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They passed one conservative wish list bill with cuts for food stamps and meals on wheels. they passed that. but not by much. and not by enough to make john boehner think that he could pass the rest of this supposed plan b thing that he was working on. 22 republicans voted no on their own party s plan. and then the house republicans just suddenly gave up, turned off the lights, and announced they were going home for christmas, they considered themselves to be done. nobody knew this was coming. the republicans had no idea this was coming. speaker boehner issued this statement by way of explanation. he said, the house did not take up the tax measure today because it did not have sufficient support from our members to pass. this whole episode has been like watching a puppy having a frenetic random action period before collapsing asleep in its own bowl. i mean, it is adorable. it s transfixing. but it is motion without meaning. it is motion without mastery. it s chaos. it is chaos in the ....
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there is a provision where majority leaders in both bodies can bring up the privilege to shut off the sequester. considering the dire nature is that an option and have you given consideration to that? i have not given consideration to it. we have a spending problem. we have to address it. we re not going to address it by kicking the can down the road which is what you re suggesting. speaker boehner, mr. cantor suggested the house and the state here this will a job was done. they re obviously going home for christmas and are you quitting? absolutely not. they do a great job on behalf of their constituents and our country speaker what mr. cantor outlined last night is that the house would come back if needed. we re prepared to come back if needed. ....
22 republicans voted no on their own party s plan. and then the house republicans just suddenly gave up, turned off the lights, and announced they were going home for christmas, they considered themselves to be done. nobody knew this was coming. the rends had no idea this was coming. speaker boehner issued this statement by way of explanation. he said, the house did not take up the tax measure today because it did not have sufficient support from our members to pass. this whole episode has been like watching a puppy having a frenetic random action period before collapsing asleep in its own bowl. i mean, it is adorable. it s transfixing. but it is motion without meaning. it is motion without mastery. it s chaos. it is chaos in the caucus that john boehner is supposed to control. and the thing they are doing, this motion without meaning, even this is still controversial on their own side, making all their think tanks and their anthony visit groups and their pressure groups flip their p ....
Washington, because now it turns out that the fiscal cliff is actually closer than we thought. it was not coakley january 1 anymore. we ve about to go off it any day now because apparently it takes a certain amount of days to actually draft any kind of legislation that they might come to an agreement on and so if you backtrack then from the end of the year and when congress is going to be going home for christmas and other holidays, then you really don t have that much time. it s really only days away now. we know they had the secret meeting between john boehner, the speaker of the house and the president on sunday where no details were given. but we haven t heard anything much since then. so is it done or are we making progress? got to move fast. steve: yeah. according to the usa today, they say just because the talks are private, there are some details. they say both sides want specifics from the other. okay. you going to give up some tax? how much? it would be good for the preside ....