but here's the bottom line. mitch mcconnell, john boehner, myself, nancy pelosi, harry reid, we've all spoken and talked about trying to negotiate a budget agreement. and, yes, speaker boehner's decision to step down complicates it, but i do think there's still a path for us to come up with a reasonable agreement that raises the spending caps above sequester to make sure we can properly finance both our defense and nondefense needs that maintains a prudent control of our deficits. and we can do that in short order. it's not that complicate d. the math is the math. and what i've encouraged is that