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in their history, the history of canada will not be either first or second. at this moment, they are well back in third place now. these have all been finalized yet, but nevertheless, there are many other ridings the store to clear indication the conservatives are doing extremely well, heading towards the potential of a majority government. right now there s 133 seats, 155 is what is needed for the majority. let s have a look at some numbers to give an indication of how this is playing out. for the conservatives it s a great light at 40% of the share of the vote that has been counted so far. that s not a final number. it s where we are at right now. sorry, 38.2% of the vote counted so far. they are trying to get the car to 40%, which is the generally accepted figure for a majority government. don t have to get there, 38.2 might be enough. it s certainly doing them no harm right now as the march very effectively towards 155. the ndp about 30%, the liberals down under 28% ....
the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent that the call of the quorum be terminated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: mr. president, i would read a statement that was issued by speaker boehner and myself just a few minutes ago. this is the statement: we ve agreed to a historic amount of cuts for the remainder of this fiscal year as well as a short-term bridge that will give us time to avoid a shortdown. we will cut $78.5 billion and we ve reached an agreement on the policy riders. in the mean time, we ll pass a short-term resolution to keep the government running through thursday. that short-term bridge will cut the first $2 billion of the total savings. mr. president, i first of all want to express my appreciation to the speaker and his office. it s been a grueling process. we didn t do it at this late hour for drama. we did it because it has been hard to arrive at this point. i want to express my apprecia ....