renee ellmers told the national journal -- >>> the house will still vote on a bill prohibiting federal for abortion, though. >>> mitt romney and je jeb bush have been trading jabs now jonathan martin of the "the new york times" say they plan to meet in utah. the times reports it was bush who invited romney out of deference of his previous bid. preventing running two campaigns that would compete for the same donors. the state party chair tells the wall street journal, he plans to campaign in the caucus. bush is sitting out congressman king's freedom summit. meanwhile vice president joe biden is still considering his own run for the white house from the left. >> is there any chance you're going to challenge her? >> yes, there's a chance. but i haven't made up my mind about that. there's plenty of time. look the person who's going to end -- and secretary clinton is a capable person and competent. the person who's going to be the next president of the united states is the one who can articulate the clearest vision of where they're going to take the country. >> george stephanopoulos there a

protesters like susan allen of tennessee who headed inside to try to confront north carolina republican renee ellmers. >> she is one of the ones that limped out on us. we want to let her know how we feel about it. >> reporter: this whole episode shows the influence of female republican lawmakers who make up just 9% of the house g.o.p. but who have been asked to serve in a series of high-profile position, scott, as the party seeks to show that it is becoming more diverse. >> pelley: nancy cordes on capitol hill. nancy, thanks very much. this evening president obama wrapped up two days in the heartland selling proposals from tuesday's state of the union address inch kansas he talked of tripling the childcare tax credit and paying for middle-class tax relief with higher taxes on the rich. for the first time mr. obama faces both a house and a senate in republican hands, and to them he said this: >> the answer can't just be no to everything. i don't need hearing no to some things, but it can't be no to everything. at some point you got to say yes to something. >> pelley: the republican leadership told us

revolt from gop women on the 20 week ban bill over the rape exemption and showing a picture of renee ellmers who is behind this revolt and what are they really concerned about? >> we are talking about 25 women had been meeting in the republican leadership in expressing their concern at the exemption included in the ban mandating that women report their rape to the police. it's too harsh to be included in the law. obviously not -- there some victims that don't formally report their rapes to police and they are worried that not including an exception for women who don't -- who don't refrigerate the dough could be harsh. >> host: you reported earlier that they had pulled their names off the sponsorship of the bill. did you get a response from gop leadership? >> they are considering changing the language. yesterday they told the chairman nye that they were not going to be changing a language without facing a bill that could fail. they could lose 27 republicans before the bill does fail. they are reevaluating and wondering if they changed to the language. >> host: can they do that now that the ho

and it was all thanks to a revolt led by republican congresswoman, renÉe ellmers.3 questioning the nation's top policy official about obamacare's insurance requirements. >> single male age 32 does not need maternity coverage. to the best of your knowledge, has a man ever delivered a baby? >> you know ladies time has expired. >> uh-huh. that was an oldie, but goody. okay, she's not exactly the most progressive woman in congress but for ellmers and other, 20 week abortion ban went too far, one important way. the bill's exception for rape would only count if the rape was reported to law enforcement. ellmers may have forseen critics saying that requirement boiled down to determining whether a rape was legitimate. and so she told her colleagues to consider the optics especially how the bill would look to younger voters that republicans are desperate to get in 2016. she said quote we got into trouble last year, and i think we need to be careful again. we need to be smart about how we are moving forward. the first vote we take or the second or fifth vote shouldn't be on a

republicans, including carlos car bullee, mario diaz-balart of florida, robert dold of illinois, rene ellmers of north carolina ros-lehtinen of florida, and david valadao of california. and the amendment eventually passed. the vote was 237-190 on the house floor. the first of five amendments to that homeland security spending bill. the next up we'll show you debate on those amendments beginning with congressman aderholt's amendment. the segment earlier today, this somethingment of amendment debate is about 90 minutes. . aderholt: thank you, mr. chairman. as i mentioned i want to first of all thank the chairman of the appropriations committee, mr. carter, for his leadership and putting a very comprehensive bill before us today that deals with protecting the homeland. i'm presenting today along with my distinguished colleagues, in particular from south carolina, mr. mulvaney and also mr. barletta from pennsylvania an amendment that defunds the president's unconstitutional actions on illegal immigration. as it's been noted here last night and this morning, back in december the house voted to fun