Norman D. Dicks: “it is all about trying to do it in a way that is sustainable in terms of a bipartisan coalition in the House”

I thank the gentleman for his hard work on this issue and look forward to working with him.

I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This will be a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 329, noes 91, not voting 9, as follows: [Roll No. 579] AYES--329…

I'm very interested in this, and I want to talk to my good friend about this. I would like to work with you on it.

One issue that didn't come up today was this question of what are we going to do at the end of this year with sequestration, and there was some discussion of an amendment that didn't happen because of points of order and other possible…