necessary. we are either doing this there s either a need or it s not. if your budgetary priorities are either moved by a moral compass where they are not. and this is an outrageous place for them to take a stand and because, once again, pain and heartache and suffering within a community that has felt so much of that over these past few years and is going to be suffering more. bret, what people see as a major defeat today is a minor setback and it s just going to propel us to a bigger win and we are confident that after meeting with mitch mcconnell, that he s kept his word and he s working diligently to get this bill on the floor for a straight up-and-down vote. that s what we always wanted. the unanimous consent was easy, but we want a straight up-and-down vote because we didn t get it in 2010, we didn t get it in 2015 and we want to walk out watching the fruition of our work come to an end. it s the same song and dance they ve given us for 14 years now. this program has proven
faithful to the statute. it has shown itself to be fair to the claimant and shown itself to be respectable to the taxpayers, and that s all we can ask of a program, but most importantly, it brings just a moment s peace to a community that has suffered and continues to suffer. bret: jon stewart and john feal, again, john feal, thank you for your service. we will continue to follow it, thanks for coming on. thank you for having us. bret: this is a fox news alert. the house just moments ago has voted to approve criminal contempt charges against attorney general william barr and commerce secretary wilbur ross. they are accused, according to the house, of failing to provide lawmakers with the information about the citizenship question for the census. the vote was 230-198. four democrats joined all republicans in voting no. republican turned independent justin amash voted yes. the white house just responded
decade. her cell senator paul said it on the floor today. and a new spending that we are approaching, and a new program it s going to have the longevity of 70, 80 years, should be offset by cutting spending less less valuable. we need to at the very least have this debate. i will be offering up an amendment if this bill should come to the floor but until then i will object. bret: jon stewart, your reaction to that is absolutely outrageous and you pardon me if i m not impressed in any way by rand paul s fiscal responsibility virtue signaling. rand paul presented tissue paper avoidance of the $1.5 trillion tax cut that added on parts of billions of dollars to our deficit and now he stands up at the last minute after 15 years of blood, sweat, and tears from the 9/11 community to say that it s all over now, now we are going to balance the budget on the backs of the 9/11 first responder community.