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could come as soon as tonight. could come tomorrow. regardless what happens, we are live this weekend on the fallout from all of this, pause what we love to be live. just let you know, 10:00 a.m., to noon, eastern time on saturday. the fallout from all of this. they could have a vote for a tax cut by then. daily caller news foundation chris bedford, what he makes of this. chris, very important obviously to get john mccain to be a yes. beats a no. but doesn t mean that susan collins has any less reservations or host of other senators, have any fewer problems, right? i mean, how does this change things? there are still a couple holdouts. john mccain being on board backs up some of the bullish people. i ve been really surprised given the republican party failures that there are so many bullish people. white house is excited, senate is excited and outside groups are. collins is coming out with announcement. shy is leaning positive. lankford said he would support it. cor ....
there is separate rumor out there, not necessarily one to be believed, the house would simply vote on what the gnat came up, rubberstamp that, get it to the president s desk pronto. to congressman from north carolina, mark walker. thanks, neil, good to be with you. neil: would you be open to that, there is rumor circulating that the house would simply not on what the senate came up with? not at all. republican study committee we did a survey last week, we didn t have a single one who supported that. 3% were maybe or depends. 97% said absolutely not. we re going to conference. i m pretty sure leadership confirmed that over and over again. neil: i fest they re concerned about something potentially breaking down in this process. rarely does that happen when it gets this far but you are a part on some key issues like corporate taxes or cuts going. sure. the senate favorsรง waiting until 2019. you and your colleagues prefer 2018. there is a lot of math built into th ....
six key gop senators. it is interesting a mall gum. the latest hurdle seems to be a spending bill, budget bill. not that the government lights go out but there is concern about how long do you keep it going latest talk is a two-week measure? do you believe that? a two-week measure. to get us over christmas. i kid you not. we have a a chief congressional correspondent. this will be bigger issue than the tax cut thing, by and large been resolved. we have arguing back and forth today, but what do you make of this? first of all i don t think the tax deal is settled either. today the republican leadership handed out three pages of differences that the house lawmakers have to look at and consider when they go into negotiations with the senate. a lot of them are small differences but those are 30 or so differences they need to work through. as for the spending bill, you re right, that will really take the oxygen out of the room for the next couple weeks. right now they re ta ....
at 20, we re on the very low side. we ll be very competitive. china 15%, other countries are 18%, some are 23, 24%. the average is actually of the primary competitors is actually 23%. so we ll be pretty much below the average and we ll be able to compete. and despite all of that, and despite before we even get this massive injection, we have a stock market that has hit record highs. 81 times since our election victory. 81 times. it s at a new high right now. unemployment is at a 17-year low, very shortly at a 19-year low. we think the numbers are going to continue to go down and we re also getting into the pool of the 100 million people that are not working. that pool is now coming back as you know, that s not considered in the low employment numbers, which means we have a lot of people that want to get to work and that will be working. consumer confidence is at a 17-year high. we ve created nearly 2 million jobs. think of that. 2 million jobs since election day. that s ....
like it all has been worth it. politics, paul wellstone told us, is about the improvement of people s lives. i know that the work i ve been able to do has improved people s lives. i would do it all over again in a heartbeat. for a decade now, every time i would get tired or discouraged or frustrated i would think about the people i was doing this for and would bet me back up on my feet. i know the same will be true for everyone who decides to pursue a politics that is about improving people s lives. and i hope you know that i will be fighting alongside you every step of the way. with that, mr. president, i yield the floor. neil: with that, senator al franken has resigned from the united states senate. he says he will do so in the coming weeks. he didn t specify how many weeks. that is important parliamentarywise because we don t know whether he wants to stay for the vote, not only temporary measure to continue the government and continue operating the government for ano ....