of us can remember, congressman. let me start with last night. last night the senate passed a bill that would give the faa some assistance in their budgeting to keep these air traffic controllers from being furloughed. do you expect that the house will pass a similar measure today? >> i do expect the house will pass that kind of measure. but i think it's important to point out that this is just a band-aid, john. i mean this is just responding to the most recent example, and a very visible example of the disruptive effects of the sequester. what we really need to be doing is replacing the sequester so we achieve the same amount of deficit reduction over a longer period of time, but in a smarter way. and i and my colleagues in the house have put forward a plan on four occasions to do exactly that. unfortunately, the speaker of the house hasn't even allowed us the benefit of a vote on that. but the real solution is to replace the sequester. otherwise we're just attacking the symptoms as they pop up.