Rob Andrews: “If you have that philosophy, shouldn't it, at the very least, have been put up for a vote? Wasn't it wrong for people in…”

I believe that this rebalancing is the right priority for the country.

I think you are doing some of the most meaningful work in this Congress by your diligence here, and I am proud to be associated with it in a very minor way after the work you have done.

Reclaiming my time, the Senate passed a bill to keep the government running at your numbers that you wanted in budget. We are asking, give every Member of this House a fair up-or-down vote on that bill. Will you do that? I yield to the…

I understand this is a conceptual proposal, but we don't legislate concepts; we legislate statutes and they have real impact on real people.