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Are going? >> we've seen this movie before. congress loves a deadline when it comes to their spending bills. once again, they're right up against it. that's when they tend to get most of the work done. you mentioned that election interference bill, that's one of the things that might get tacked onto this. but we're talking about a spending bill here at the end of the day and the disagreement is over money. specifically a difference between republicans who want to see a defense spending at a higher level than nondefense spending. democrats like to achieve parity there. they like to see the top ...

Election interference bill. i know you voted against what the house democrats billed as hr-1, this large voting rights bill that they put together. if they carved out the parts just on election security -- there was an election security portion requiring paper ballots, establishing better cybersecurity standards, also would include i think what mark warner wants to see, immediate reporting to the fbi, could you vote for that bill? >> well, i had a lot of concerns with hr-1, not the least of which were the first amendment violations. you had everybody from the aclu all the way to national right...

Official too. i'm teasing you there. congressman, good to see you. >> fair enough. good to see you, chuck. >> let me start with this election interference bill. why is this so hard? set aside what the president said. why can't you guys vote in a bipartisan way to criminalize foreign interference in elections? >> i think we can. i think we should. look, this is a no-brainer to me. look, somebody calls you up from a foreign government offering you information or help in your campaign, it's illegal. you should immediately call the appropriate law enforcement people, normally the fbi since it invo...