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Source. what is absolutely true is the highway trust fund has consistently gone smaller and smaller and smaller and inadequate for the needs. what is also true is patchwork approaches of three months or six months at a time don't make any saenzr sense. nobody foresaw that we could actually get a dock fix done and saw the long-term problems in terms of how we were managing medicare payments for doctors. who knows? maybe we might see some intelligent bipartisan outbreaks over the next few months because i think everybody recognizes this is important. thank you very much, everybody. so there he i...

Congress not doing much. today on the medicare dock fix, there are green shoots if you will, in terms of functionality. i also wonder, to your point, about this being the nomination of the country's first african-american female attorney general, in a moment where it feels like we're talking about race every week for whatever reason, videos controversies, the like is this republican sort of coming to reality and saying, this is not a good move for us as ari said not good to hold this confirmation indefinitely? >> i think they're coming up with that conclusion overall. the problem is and when r...

Recently then they've just passed a dock fix which is not offset to the tune of tens of billionsing of dollars again. so you must be if this is the case you must be terribly disappointed in the house leadership. >> i am frequently disappointed. i see the memos. they don't do what i tell them to do. it's just crushing. >> what do you make of those two recent decisions, which is essentially deficit spending? >> two things. i think it is key to hold the overall sequester and key, what we do need to do is reform military spending to save a great deal of money and that isn't focused on sufficiently...

Department of homeland security given we're giving back from the senate a clean bill. again, remember that what we tried to achieve, stop the president what we think of is over reach, we've succeeded and we got it in an arena where we can win. we're never going to win in congress. >> broader question which is there are other cliffs so to speak, coming down the horizon. the dock fix, highway trust bill that needs to be funded. we'll have the return of sequestration. is this the pattern that we should expect going forward whereby the two chambers just can't get on the same page we kind of tip to...

As you said, after the leadership does something to tick them off. this time it was the dock fix but earlier it was noises about immigration reform. and it happens from time to time. when boehner does their bidding, it kind of quiets down. so i think that it might be reasonable to interpret this as sort of like a statement of anger at the leadership and an effort to bully them into towing the conservative line between now and the election. >> and we're a little short on time, but that gets me to my question. you talk about these instances where boehner was forced to back down, forced to do the...