and, then, you know, this is schoolhouse rock, to get the budget out, to hammer out the differences they appoint conferees who go into conference committee and they hammer out the differences. for a year, the house was mad at the senate for not passing a budget. they didn't pass one because they didn't want to be attached to a document they knew was going to immediately die in the house. they said you know what, you're right. and six months a the democratic senate passed a budget. and john boehner will not allow the house to send conferees. so for six months the demand has been you must appoint conferees. on monday night, john boehner decided to say we're going to appoint conferees to work out the difference on this continuing resolution. >> they were trying to sound reasonable at the very moment they were unreasonable. that was their procedural fig