It is one of them. It is not ``the'' solution. There is not ``a'' solution tonight that we can do. But I can say this: What we are doing is unsustainable financially. It does not do any good to question me. I do not have any votes. When the gentleman talks about spending, the Democrats have not spent any money in this place for 10 years because we do not have any votes.
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