pain for absolutely no gain for the country. and unfortunately, it apparently took this kind of episode to hopefully let republicans know, especially these tea party caucus republicans, that you don't win partisan victories by shutting down the government and threatening to shut down our full faith and credit. i don't know if that lesson has been learned. we'll only know going forward. but the country should not have had to go through the pain in order for people to learn that lesson. >> sir, do you not think, therefore, it would be in order for those congressmen, like louie gohmert, tim humans camp, and others on the lunatic fringe to go now and apologize to those millions of new mothers who have been denied nutritional assistance, or those 50,000 elderly people denied meals on wheels? shouldn't they go now and apologize to those parents who