luke. we said we want integrity. we want to aggressively tackle fraud and abuse and we did. we saved about 4 billion going after things like lottery winners who were actually getting food assistance and things that made no sense and the states doing to misuse programs but we kept intact food help for people that need it. people in michigan that lost their job because of a plant closing paid their taxes the whole life and mortified they need food help but they do and most people get help less than ten months and critical to feed their family so we want people who need help to get help in the house. they went much too far and they re going to be hurting people. part of the rhetoric and what chairman lucas said is moved a bill forward through the house that not a lot of conservatives were okay with, with the hope to get through the senate. knowing how conservative the house gop is, if this is the
best to get and give help and disaster relief to farmers, why not push it forward and have a bipartisan win? well, luke, first of all, i know we can do better. we can come to agreement in a conference committee. the proposals in the house bill have actually been rejected some of them twice on the senate floor. and so, but it s like anything else in governing. if the house gives us a bill, we ll negotiate. we ll come together in the middle. that s what good governing is. what s what solving problems is but the house has to act to do that. i m confident to work with chairman lucas and ranking member peterson. senator roberts and i have worked very closely. but all across america today, folks need economic certainty. they need food security certainty. and now, we need disaster help. could you take a temporary extension of current policy if that s the best speaker boehner can provide? i don t think that s a good idea at all. it does nothing for the