you don't understand that culture, you don't understand that culture. we go in to win it. >> reporter: yesterday you told us the democratic caucus is not a rubber stamp. >> that's right. >> reporter: you guys have such a narrow majority, eight seats. you're going to pass the two biggest spending bills of this congress possibly. have you bit off more than you can chew at this point? are you confident you can get this across the -- >> no. do you think when we came in with that majority that we have, well, we have -- we had more, but we had the secretary of hud. we're waiting for her replacement to come in in another four weeks. we had -- i'll see hasting who passed away. we're waiting for that replacement. but from what i infer from what you say is that we should adjust -- done nothing because we had a slim majority?