what they're going to do is anybody's guess but the plan is tomorrow on thursday, mitch mcconnell andenate republicans will bring to the senate floor a measure that would be a short-term funding measure that would fund the u.s. government through december 11th. that measure, though, is going to have a rider on it that would defund manned parenthood. republicans upset about the abortion issue. they'd like to take that funding out of federal spending. democrats are not going to go for that. what's going to happen is that bill's going to fail and then they're going to bring up what's called a clean spending bill without the planned parenthood rider. that will likely pass and be kicked to the house of representatives by early next week. there is where speaker of the house john boehner is going to have tough decisions to make in terms of his republican conference and how they move forward on this. >> would he potentially have to pass it with democratic support? >> he would. that's something that people are talking about here in washington. could he pass the with democratic support? if he does t