Roy Blunt: “I appreciate the sentiment. If I am not in error, I hope we don't just waste the 2 weeks, and instead begin the…”

“I appreciate the sentiment. If I am not in error, I hope we don't just waste the 2 weeks, and instead begin the discussions that we need to get to a bill that puts the health care of kids who don't have access to insurance first. On one more appropriations topic, two comments made this week by Chairman Obey, and I was interested in more information from the gentleman. One was that we won't do any supplemental funding for our troops in Afghanistan and Iraq this year, and I believe he may have said 'and potentially not next year,' and then the other was the question raised by him of having an income tax surcharge placed on people who pay the income tax to the tune of about $150 billion. I believe you and others have said that surcharge will not be coming to the floor, and I wonder if you can verify that. And also any information you have about the likelihood of how we sustain our troops in the field between now and the end of the year.”