with governors and house members and other senators in terms of what is the path moving forward. so this issue isn't going away in terms of exactly what the order of legislation. i really do think we probably ought to turn our attention to the debt ceiling and funding the government and tax cuts until we can really get all the parties together. from my standpoint that really is getting governors, house members, senators on the white house on the same page in terms of health care. >> the president has been very critical about the fact that you and your senate colleagues just started a month-long break after wrapping up a governance period that's been called historically unproductive. obamacare untouched. taxed uncut. border wall remains unbuilt. what do you say to many of the voters in your own party who look at the record and think the republican has failed? >> my preference would be to stay in session and grapple with those issues we talked about. on friday i traveled with