i give high marks to everyone for saying let the appropriators in the room get an agreement and then take it to the floor and see if we can pass both houses. are republicans willing to give democrats something in return for coming up on the $1.3 billion figure? you know washington, compromise is about horse trading. there have been discussions of permanent protection for daca. the president offered temporary protection. that didn t satisfy democrats. it was made moot by the supreme court decision on that. are republicans offering something back to democrats? well, the homeland bill is a very large appropriation bill. i would say yes. there is a tremendous amount of common ground. the coast guard is funded. we have republicans and democrats who both support and should support the coast guard. so there is flexibility in a lot of areas. one area where i really think it s dangerous is democrats have tried to reduce the amount of