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Congress cut off funding for the dome. when president lincoln was informed and people said, this is terrible, they shouldn't be doing something that is not military. linkon said, no, no, this is a sign of the continuity of the union. >> reporter: fight fights kept congress from including money for the dome in the last big spending bill. lawmakers from both parties expect money to appear in the next spending measure, due in the spring, opening a narrow, four-year window for repairs. >> take a good look. it is going to be covered in scaffolding between now and the next inauguration. >> reporter:...

Declaration of war. >> paul: so it's basically the congress's power of the purse you think gives the right to do that. >> i think the power of the purse supercedes the power of the president, if congress cut off funding he couldn't do it. >> paul: you're saying that democrats could have cut off funding for iraq if they had the votes to do it. >> they certainly tried. we had a number of votes they were trying to cut off funding and we defeated them and so, yes, i think they have the right, it's extreme right to use, but i think in the case such as this, especially where it involves using civili...