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breaking news on capitol hill, lawmakers scrambling to pass a $1.3 omnibus spending package by tomorrow s deadline. house lawmakers received the contents of that massive bill last night. we are told they re getting ready to vote on the legislation. if the bill passes the house, then the senate gets a chance to vote as well. we re told the white house, house budget director, mick mulvaney could give an update at any moment f that we ll bring it to you live. stay close. fox news alert, republicans on the house invoting to release their version of the report on the findings of committee s commission into russian election meddling. which included looking into whether there was collusion between the trump team and russia. they are now waiting for the intelligence community to go over their report and redact any classified info before it s
i guess it depends whether it s a preexisting condition or not. either way, kathleen sebelius is out. this announcement came yesterday. not terribly shocking, although the timing of it is always difficult to predict. democrats are praising her for her efforts. republicans have long blamed her for the implementation of obamacare. either way, it s going to be pretty tough for her to disentangle herself from the obamacare web site which cost millions of dollars to this day. it s still not completely functional. as far as reaction is concerned from house majority leader eric cantor, he tweeted this, i thank secretary sebelius for her service. she had an impossible task. nobody can make obamacare work. and that really may be the theme that we hear from republicans now moving forward as we transition to a post-sebelius period. her successor is expected to be this woman, sylvia burwell, currently serves as the house budget director. the white house thinks they may have a relatively easy con
he suggested that he has not been vetted. and some of the decisions he s made in virginia have helped him. but they ll keep floating names. we ll hear bobby jindal. they have floated governor huk huckabee. he also helps you with christians. they use the campaigning and floating and very interesting auditions of governor romney campaigning with the candidates to keep names in play. and we have talked before about paul ryan of wisconsin. i think because they are going to go safe, they are not going to go with the house budget director. but you can argue that the obama campaign isn t going to talk about the romney the romney-ryan budget anyway, so they might as well get the advantage of it. catholic, wisconsin, rust belt. one more. scott walker out of the question even though he is now a conservative hero? i think he has his hands full. but he is raising a lot of money, and he ll be on a lot of short lists for some time to come. mike allen with a look inside
provision unconstitutional. according to a new cnn opinion research poll, just 38% now support requiring americans who do not have health insurance to get it, down six points from august. opposition to the provision has risen to 60%. the survey indicates a majority of public, 54% still oppose the new law but down five points from earlier this year. president obama will delay the lease of his annual budget proposal by about a week, until mid-february, according to a senior administration official who blamed the delay in part to a backlog caused by the confirmation of the new white house budget director. the spending blueprint could be momentous since obama has promised to have spending cuts to tame the 1$1.3 trillion budgt deficit. after he releases it for 2012, incoming house budget director, paul ryan will release the