the democrats to vote on it. he is blocking it. he can say what he wants to say. the facts are it is a filibuster by the republicans that is blocking the 50 democrats plus the vice president. >> yeah. it's tough when the other side doesn't have something they want to negotiate for. you touched on this a little bit i think in your answer just now. it's like there's a debate going on around democrats as you try to figure out how the package will get smaller. and even everyone i think acknowledges it will get smaller. whether that means taking certain programs and saying we're not going to do these because we can't do them as well for less money. where do you fall on the idea of kind of shrinking programs, setting deadlines a little bit shorter, or if there are things you look at in that reconciliation bill as it exists and say maybe we set this aside for another day? >> we're not going to set it aside. we're going to move things forward. the house of representatives, all of our committees in the house, ways and means, all of them, even the transportation committee, we worked months and