visible, some of the most heart wrenching areas of the government. we talked about clinical trials, that's a great example. the house passed a bill to fund the national institute of health, harry reed said no, i'm not going to do that today because he said i'm not going to take one for the other. i'm not going to put one group against the other and that does put democrats in a difficult position but standing firm saying all or nothing. >> mat salmon is deep in the trenches on this and joins us now. appreciate you being with us. this peace mill approach is expected to be rejected by the senate as dana said. i guess what i don't understand, how are republicans picking these agencies? >> honestly, anderson, you got to start somewhere and this peace mill approach is the way congress is passing budgets for many, many years. in fact, when i was here back in the '90s we also passed 13 appropriation bills, and that was the budget and we would send them to the president and he