John Cornyn: “Only in Washington, DC would Congress pass an $80-billion spending appropriation without any plan as to how it is going…”

Liberating is how he described his negotiating power.

It would be a monumental mistake for Blanche to attempt to resurrect the $1.8 billion program in another form.

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.

They just don’t want to do it.