so we don't have the same problem ten years from now. it's perfectly reasonable. it wasn't too long ago a lot of democrats agreed, we should have operational control of borders. funding the border is part of controlling the border. [ inaudible question ] >> well, we haven't done the -- i don't know the answer to your question about the vote count. we all thought we had more time obviously to deal with the debt limit issue, and that's before the hurricanes hit. when these hurricanes hit and we saw the new numbers coming in from fema, that changed the entire calculation. so the president made it a game call yesterday that he thought it was in our country's interests to have a bipartisan