Perhaps if I were as persuasive as my colleague just said, he would not have objected. Having said that, when we speak about heavy hands, we don't have to worry about the heavy hand of the House on this issue because they went home. They took off. They left, which means that 4,000 people would be furloughed this evening. ____________________
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