voted on yesterday. if i'm in a miminority so be it. in this particular instance here's what's at stake. you have the risk of a federal government shutdown. that's what's at stake. under those circumstances, i would argue that we have an obligation to prevent that kind of damage that is done to our federal government and to our country. and some of those circumstances, i would have preferred we have a vote on the full measure passed by the senate and see where the people stood. if it failed then that would reinforce to the united states senate, that their position of defending the president's illegal and unconstitutional conduct is untenable and they would have to reconsider their position. if it passed then this issue would be behind us and we would start moving on to a lot of other very important issues that still face our country. in the meantime, as bill has argued and i think as i concur we are stringing this thing out. let's bring it to a head see