avoid a government shutdown. this is essentially what the house is taking up, roughly the same measure. that will give us a little bit of breathing room. they ll have to revisit this drama all over again in november. how much time does this measure buy, will it get past the house? there are a lot of angry folks, the same folks who pushed speaker boehner out. excellent questions, neil. this is the deadline, the end of the government s fiscal year. a lot of the drama seems to be gone after house speaker boehner s resignation announcement on friday. they re voting on a government extension that would run ten weeks. it passed the senate by a wide bipartisan vote, 78-20. but the next time this issue comes up before christmas, it may be a much tougher fight. boehner is still speaker of the house but in december it will
corporations, that produces campaign checks. i agree with you there. let me ask you this. you talk about leadership in the house and the senate. kevin mccarthy wants to be the next speaker of the house. he s going to join us coming up later in the program tonight. you are largely credited for leading the effort in part, you and mark meadows to push speaker boehner out. what do you think of kevin mccarthy? i like kevin personally and i would encourage kevin or whoever the new speaker is. what is most important is that republican leadership honor the commitments we made to the men and women who elected us. if kevin becomes speaker and he s the speaker who will fight to do what we promised the voters, then i ll be happy to work with him or anyone else. that s what we ve got to do. i would be remiss if i didn t mention if you want a true proven conservative fighter, go to ted cruz.org.
corporations, that produces campaign checks. i agree with you there. let me ask you this. you talk about leadership in the house and the senate. kevin mccarthy wants to be the next speaker of the house. he s going to join us coming up later in the program tonight. you are largely credited for leading the effort in part, you and mark meadows to push speaker boehner out. what do you think of kevin mccarthy? i like kevin personally and i would encourage kevin or whoever the new speaker is. what is most important is that republican leadership honor the commitments we made to the men and women who elected us. if kevin becomes speaker and he s the speaker who will fight to do what we promised the voters, then i ll be happy to work with him or anyone else. that s what we ve got to do. i would be remiss if i didn t mention if you want a true proven conservative fighter, go to ted cruz.org.
well, the democrats want to bury their head in the sand on this topic. when i used the subpoena democrats doesn t support me on that. when we went to issue a letter to go get all the raw materials, they didn t support me on that. they have a political agenda. that is they want their funding arm, which is planned parenthood, to get out the vote and all the money that they transfer from a 501(c)3 into a 501 c 4 to engage in these political activities, they want that funding to be there. what s the alternative? to what we re going to talk about today. well, look, i don t think we should have to fund it. the discretionary part of the funding is about $60 million. in the last reporting period, planned parenthood collected $100 million more dollars than they actually spent. so why should federal taxpayers have to supplement their political activities? i just don t think it should have to happen. good thought there. let me ask you this, speaker boehner out. who is going to step in,
us. and so we will go to the court system how to find out to get relief. elizabeth? reporter: hi, molly, the president is inviting house speaker john boehner to sue him. and he said the7 a1cclicans need to stop, the plans. the republicans plan is to instead of work with me is sue me. that s what they are spending their time on. it will waste months of america s time and they will pay for it using your hard- earned tax dollars. speaker boehner out lined the suit. changes in the signature health care law without congressional approval such as the employer man date that is delayeded. it is not a political stunt but reforming the way things are done in washington and making an