pie. >> let me give you a chance to respond. standard & poor's did come out with the $24 billion cost. >> she could have joined us and opened the government sooner. we passed over two dozen bills, sent them to the senate. she voted against almost all of them. the senate voted on ze ro of them in the last 16 days. we could have got the government open sooner. >> not the government. piece by piece. >> well, loretta, that's the way the system always works. we vote on different appropriation bills. not the way the president wants to do it. he wants a single bill he controls and it passes that way. it's not the way it works. you know we vote on several different appropriations bills. this is being passed on to our children. it uh's unfair. >> good of you both to be here. >> thank you. >> we'll watch as the house votes tonight. after a fight the over federal spend ing why did the senate pass a bill that included $174,000 payment to the by widof