because up until january 3rd,
this is paul ryan's congress.
after that it is nancy pelosi's
congress.
ralph norman is back with us.
has the door reopened, sir, on
your satellite window?
you can hear us now?
>> i can.
leland: all right, your
thoughts.
mitch mcconnell said, basically,
us working on this in the senate
was useless.
we're hitting the pause button.
your thoughts.
>> well, two things, leyland,
it's not about money.
the $5 billion is .125 of the
total four trillion budget,
money that we spend.
and secondly it's not about
semantics.
nancy pelosi said we didn't have
the votes in the house to give
something to the senate to
consider.
217-185 was the vote.
177 democrats, all of them voted
ge
against it.
we've given the senate something
and now what we have to do is
see something on paper.
in the real world, most families
that negotiate for a house, i'm
in the real estate business, if
you don't like the price of a
house you come back with