But the bottom line to this is that each and every year we vote on about a third of the budget. We do not vote on the interest on the national debt, and we do not vote on half of the budget, which are what we call entitlements, that long list that we have there. So we have been trying over a number of years to try to control spending by just looking at defense and nondefense, what is spend out of the Committee on Appropriations.
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