and the choices were either lay off people, you impose a furlough or all of us just take an across-the-board cut. >> greta: what are we going to do about the sequester? >> well, it is the law. i mean with the continuing resolution as it passed these cuts are going to remain in place. i just think, you know, when you do budgeting if you were in your home budget people like to compare our budget to our home budget and your kids have to go to college you don't cut college in the same way that you cut going to the movies but in fact that is exactly what we have done with the sequester. >> greta: it is very painful because the reason we have sequester is because back in august 2011 you voted against it i will emphasize that again is that the idea was what the supercommittee would solve the problem and if they didn't we would go to sequester. they met and couldn't come up with a budget and then they disbanded. nobody comes up with neglect. all the way around to the fall. everybody takes august off. and then go into the campaign