. >> on a related issue, we're seeing the reporting of your roll call colleague, paul krausak. you're tweeting about that. why is this important? >> this is really important, because it introduces another potential deadline for lawmakers to come to action on the shutdown before something really, really bad happens. so the current law under what's known as the pay as you go law, states that within 14 days of session -- not counting holidays, weekends, if during 2018 congress spent more than it was bringing in with various authorization laws -- let's say farm bill, reauthorization of children's health insurance programs. if those programs contributed to the deficit, the current law states that there must be an equal amount of cuts to the government across the board. this is what's known as sequestration. really long word to explain these funding cuts that would come as a requirement under law that's designed to make congress pay for the programs that they're authorizing. now, every year at the end of adjournment, which we call see me bay -- right before that, they do what's calle