give him time and he will get a great tax cut bill that will create jobs. then he is in a very strong position to walk through a bipartisan health bill that does what we want it to do replace obamacare with dramatically better future. it has to be done in that sequence. mr. speaker, people at home hear this idea. you hear speaker ryan stand up and say we can t do the bill the way we want to do it because of the rules. i think people at home think to themselves you guys make the rules. now you are saying the rules of procedure are stopping you from doing this? it sounds ridiculous. how do you respond to that? it is. it is. the congressional budget office is totally phoney. it s numbers are totally fake. the senate reconciliation rules are absurd. and to try to design a bill, which met both a fake score and absurd rule, it s just a bad strategy. i know why they tried to do it. i respect the fact that they were serious about it. but, in the end, when you have something that is life an