professionally competent members of the press who we adore and apeciate. the norm in this sector of our nation has become left-wing advocacy, just like president obama has a jedi mindset. and they can help themselves. [laughter] neil: that is an ap story. they are carried in every newspaper. so that bemes their official take. the tea party flavored house, they are the obstructiists. they resist war spending, the democrats insist on more spending. if you're going to penalize them, police say the other one is equally antagonistic. >> let's calupon the press to have a decent professional reect for yourwn profession. if you a an editor, discipline your reporters. there is such a thing as objective reporting. many don't have objective standards in the profession. and people to enforce it. they haven't done that. they are now the single most seriously failed institution of our democracy. if our democracy fails, he press has joined with the liberal big government left in their fear that the people might understand and depressed in my estimatton needs to go throug

i apeciate that he wanted to bring a bill to the floor that honors the budget control act. disagree with the tactic of putting a reinforcement of the sequester into the law. it exists. we have to do the sequester unless we can head it off. unless the safety of our troops and their training, our national security, the educion of our children, the safety of our neighbors, unless that takes precedence over protecng tax breaks for corporate jets, businesses that send jobs overseas, the list goes on and i mentioned it now mo than one time. so i urge my colleagues to think carefully about this vote. this isn't a vote to shut down government or not. that vote will come another time. the senate isn't going to accept this bill. the senate is not going to accept this bill. we'll send back another bill and see how many votes there are on the republin side to keep government open because we have absolutely no intention of having the government shut down. we'll see how many republican votes there are for that, for a bill, that it will be a better bill than this, although -- and what tha