over this past year. and i yield back the balance of my >> the house approved the short-term spending bill. pointasure includes five $7 billion for a wall on the u.s.-mexico border and 7.8 ilion dollars in disaster relief. it goes to the senate for debate. the senate gaveling in tomorrow at noon eastern, on c-span two. nancy of benefits -- nancy joins us. she is a reporter for bloomberg government. nancy, let's go over the new measure in the house. what is in this legislation? nancy: this is not the clean dayure the senate passed a or so ago. this is a measure to cover the government to february 8, and it for the $5 billion border wall. and also, 7.8 billion dollars in

money to help states that were hit by disasters like wildfires and hurricanes in the past year. and it would cover those mostly domestic agencies that were not covered by the regular appropriations bills that were passed earlier this year. and so, that would mean funding for things like the transportation and education departments, commerce, justice. funded, we already have the pentagon and veterans energy, and hhs. also, the budget of the congress. >> where do things stand at this point as far as support in the senate? nancy: this bill got to the house. even though polar sea, said they pelosi said though there were not enough votes.

the senate is not going to allow this to advance. when it goes over to the senate, on friday, it will be put to a vote, and at that time, members say it will fail. they will not have the votes required to advance it, so then it is likely that what will happen is that mitch mcconnell, the republican leader, will strip out the border wall theion and then put into it bill that the senate can pass and send it back over to the house, with only hours to spare before you are facing that midnight deadline on friday when government funding will expire, so there will be pressure on the house just to take the more simple bill without the border wall money. as a congressional leadership reporter, who are you going to be watching as the senate takes up this legislation? nancy: obviously, mitch mcconnell.

i cannot imagine he is pleased. he has worked very hard to avoid shutdowns and to have his party associated with shutdowns. he has always wanted the republican brand to be associated with good governance. being able to govern. and this is not the crisis that he wants to have, so i will be watching him and his deputies. but actually, when the senate passed the clean cr the other both republicans and democrats lined up to support it. there were concerns about things that were not added on like a land conservation bill, but not border wall funding. there was not an outcry for it in the senate. i do not think there will be a problem for mcconnell to strip out the border wall money and to send something much more simple back over to the house. >> but does that mean we are in the same situation that the house faced today? nancy: you would ask yourself

that, but when you have only got, let's say, eight hours left before the government funding maybe a lot of senators hit the road, leave town, basically jamming the house, maybe then they are in a situation where they have to take it. we had seen the senate jam from time to time, and this time, it might be the house that gets jammed. >> we will continue to follow you, nancy, nancy ognanovich. bloomberggovernment.com. >> saturday at 8:00 p.m. eastern, conversation with three retiring members of congress. heidi heitkamp and republican brat, whotive dave were both defeated in the midterms, and darrell issa, who is retiring. >> i think we could have gotten a bipartisan tax bill passed.

i think there was no interest in doing a bipartisan tax. i think we could have done some reforms of the health care bill. there was no interest in doing reforms of health-care because it was all about winning politically. and not governing in a sustainable way, and those are regrets that i have. >> ideas matter to me. and you try to get ideas out up in the press, and they don't care. it is worse than they don't care. they are against your ideas and they put them down. and they cannot name a sense that is better. have an alternative hypothesis, so that is just, for me, intellectual fraud, and i think that is what the press is engaged in right now, unfortunately. >> most people think tournaments sell my good idea -- term limits sell micro good idea. nancy pelosi will be over 100 by the time she finishes her last term as speaker if nothing changes.

the challenge is that all of leadership has no term limits. chairman have term limits, so all the way back with newt gingrich, what happened is we took a strong chairman system and we turned it into a strong speaker and minority leader system. at 8:00 p.m.rday eastern on c-span and c-span.org , and listen with the free c-span radio app. friday onup live c-span, following the house passage of a short-term spending bill that includes $5.7 billion for a wall on the u.s.-mexico border and $7.8 billion in disaster relief, members return at 9:00 a.m. for work on suspension bills. and possible debate on any senate changes to the spending bill. the senate gavels and at noon eastern, on c-span2, and will bill. the spending on c-span3 at 9:00 a.m. eastern,

the house financial services committee looks at housing finance policy, risks in the system, and potential changes congress could enact. homeland security secretary kierstin nielsen announced new policy is for asylum seekers at the southern border, which would require a return to mexico and wait while their asylum claims are processed. the washington post reports those weights could last for months or years. secretary nielsen also talked house judiciary committee. she was asked about the death of a seven-year-old girl in border patrol custody. bob goodlatte escorted her to the witness table. the hearing ran three hours.