. >> you can read more of kate hunter's reporting at oomberg.com or on twitter at kate underscore hunter. >> house speaker boehner held a weekly briefing with reporters earlier today who talked about the health care law and latest numbers for enrollment. >> it's a good day for our allies who are being bullied by the russians. you heard me say we need to approve an aid package quickly without getting bogged down in edebates about unrealed items. yesterday, senate democrats came to the same conclusion and we hope to get our friends in the ukraine the aid they need without much delay. this is what's possible when senate democrats focus on finding common ground. let's be clear, it's only a small breakthrough, i think we need to build on it. the most important issue remains jobs and the economy. the senate continues to sit on stacks of house-passed bills that would get america working again. so let's hope the bipartisan cooperation on ukraine leads to senate action on other house-passed bills that will help americans here at home. another matter that must be settled in a bipartisan manner is

for the senate kate hunter what did leader reid finally agreed to take up? >> leader reid basically capitulated to do republican demand that he dropped a plan to boost funding for the imf system of funding. this is something democrats have wanted to see down for a while and something the treasury department and obama administration have been pushing for and the democrats included it in their original legislation. republicans balked in a bit of a showdown and house speaker john boehner said basically there's no way this is getting to the president's desk with that provision in there. mr. mcconnell in the senate said the same thing and they said okay fine we will take it out. >> you tweeted about this earlier in the week saying the majority leader reid cited secretary kerry is the reason he is okay in dropping the imf language. what did he referred to? >> he did. yesterday after he came out of party lunch with his caucus leader reid told reporters he would be dropping the language and basically said he had spoken with the secretary of state about it and john k