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Where we unanimously passed a bill that the house had passed to fund the men and women of our military. so why was it that you voted to fund the men and women of the military? >> i think that while people are in service overseas and putting their lives on the line for our country, that we owe them a special obligation. i don't think -- >> and i agree with you. >> i don't think doing that means that it doesn't change the underlying equation. the underlying equation is that you are insisting on not just good faith negotiations but negotiations with hostages. and your willingness to let the occas...

Perspective there's a pretty fair amount of hostage taking from the democratic side. >> well, those are parliamentary maneuvers in the back and forth. this is different. this is hundreds of thousands of federal employees who are literally out of work right now. this is small businesses near parks that are losing their season, the end of their summer season. this is a threat to the entire probably world economy if we don't get the debt limit right. this is negotiating with hostages with a very real threat to shoot them and very real damage to the country if we do. and i think that that's an imp...