John Cornyn: “In your view are either one or both of those plausible outcomes if in fact we leave Iraq before it is able to sustain…”

Didn't we do this once before?

I think I am prepared to vote no, but I do think I owe it to my constituents and to Mr. Blanche to try to negotiate in good faith.

It binds not only him but the Department of Justice as a whole, and so I think that satisfies my demands.

There’s nothing we could do to rein in the president when he said he likes the fund and he wishes it still exists, but the fact of the matter [is] it’s dead, and that’s all we could do under these circumstances.