steve benen and michael tomasky, great to have you with us tonight. we are going to be joined by steny hoyer when we come back, who is the whip in the house for the democrats. and he said earlier today he hasn't seen anything like this in his 30-plus years in the congress. what does he make of this situation? that's next. stay with us. smoothes, lifts, defies? red jars are all the same right? wrong! you need three uses of a $15 cream to equal the moisturizing power of one use of regenerist microsculpting cream. seems not all red jars are created equal. olay regenerist. >>> welcome back to "the ed show." house speaker john boehner has failed to get enough support to bring his plan b bill up for a vote. majority leader eric cantor said legislative business is done for the week and sent the house members home for christmas. for more i'm joined tonight by congressman steny hoyer of maryland. steny, great to have you with us tonight. i don't know how you do a deal with a dysfunctional bunch. but eric cantor said earlier today that they had the votes, then

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