to be arguing about politics and process. the republicans' contention that the two-month compromise somehow unworkable is simply untrue. if it were, we wouldn't see a new and desperate republican proposal today to settle on a three-monex tension. speaker boehner says he and his members want a one-year extension. we want that too. now, he offered a bill he talked about and the house passed a bill. he talks about -- it had no mark-up in the ways and means committee and passed three days after it was introduced. in the middle of december. just days ago. but he expected, i suppose, the senate to take it whole, they didn't. what did the senate do? they did what americans are asking us to do. they came together, reasoned together, and voted together, 89