david mccarthy. jan, michael cowen. terrence allen. >> i'm a veteran and member of access of love and operation evac which is a veterans group that means educating veterans about cannibis. i want to say it's really important we get diversity and the task force to allow patient groups to have a say about compassionate care. and i know you are hearing some things over again, but it's so important because the opposition gets up here and goes over and over again about their speel. and we need equity for the dispensaries as far as the footage, so that people can find optimal places to open up. and bottom line, compassion care for veterans, low and no income patients and seniors is very, very important. the dispensaries not only should be required to have compassion program, but they shouldn't be scared off by having to pay extra permit or tax or whatever to said program. i know they pay bulk tax when the medicine comes in the back door of current medical dispensaries, they shouldn't have to pay yet again to give it away. and

kevin mccarthy, doug lamalfa, , l cook, jeff denham, david evin, steve knight, duncan hunter. exact number that if they had voted correctly would have stopped the bill. in addition to that, though, mr. issa, mr. mcclintock and mr. rohrabacher voted before for a bill, the budget bill that takes us to this place. and guess what that does on this day of fires in california and how they voted against the interests of our state and of the american people. if you had damage to your home or whatever, in a hurricane, you can have ar tax deduction for your losses, some of your losses. losses came from fire. they actually voted for that ill. 11 voted to discriminate against victims of fire. certainly want to have a deduction for victims of hurricanes and the rest. but why are they doing this to the state? the g.o.p. tax scam. later today, we are going to go to the white house and meet with the president and hopeful that the president will be open to an agreement to address the urgent needs of the american people and keep government open. democrats have never supported shutting down gove

>> one senator from georgia, david purdue, he says he thinks the tax bill finalized could be on the president's desk in ten days. the house majority leader, kevin mccarthy says the only reason here in tonight instead of tomorrow is to get the ball rolling for this conference. we're now starting to see here in the hall some lawmakers trickling back into town. we hope to know soon which lawmakers will represent the house and which will represent the senate at this conference that they may be able to get done this week. neil? >> neil: peter doocy on capitol hill. it was a big november for stocks. heading into december, one of the best months for stocks. how will things go? starting off on the right foot. the question is how long. a lot of these gains dissipated by day's ends but they were appreciab appreciable. deidra bolton is with us now. hi, deidra. >> we closed slightly lower, the senate tax bill passed over the weekend and gop lawmakers pushing for the final bill as we just heard about to get to the white house before christmas. so some traders are saying despite losing steam, the dow will reach the record 25,000 before the end of this calendar year.