Roy Blunt: “Well, I thank my friend for yielding. And certainly we do have a disagreement here on how to move forward. I tend to…”

“Well, I thank my friend for yielding. And certainly we do have a disagreement here on how to move forward. I tend to agree with the idea that the only way to rectify this and not have future court challenges is to send a bill to President that there's no question about. Let's go through that process and get it done. I would say that the lecture on adult behavior from my very good friend, the majority leader, and he and I both know we are good friends; we're going to be friends when we leave here with this discussion today, is I don't know that that's very helpful. The standards of the House on trying to help people through mistakes did not just begin yesterday. And I, personally, the Republican leaders generally, were challenged over and over again on anything that could potentially be a way to challenge our integrity, our goodwill on the issue that you just brought up of the Deficit Reduction Act. Let me tell you the big difference in that and this. The big difference in that and this is that at least this Republican leader had no idea until we were at the bill signing ceremony that there was a problem because it all happened in the Senate. I'm just saying what I knew, Mr. Hoyer. I had no idea.…”