Mike Lee actually said...

"It makes a difference in much the same way that if my wife said, 'Mike, take out the trash, you shall take out the trash and do the dishes,' that means something different than 'Mike, you may take out..."

"It doesn't seem to me to be a very good idea, if we want something to happen, to say 'may' rather than 'shall.'"

"Thank you. I've got a couple of technical lingering questions just related to the funding mechanism contemplated in S. 1224."

"I think tying the spending reductions to the debt limit increase is very important."