. -- gwen moore. >> on this vote the eyes are 100 32, -- are 332. the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. ♪ with that vote, the house finished its work for 2013, it is now up to the senate to debate the budget agreement. this morning on "washington journal" we want to get your reaction. the house passing a two-year budget agreement last night. the numbers -- you can also participate via social media. there will be a facebook conversation going on that you can participate in, facebook.com/speak -- facebook.com/c-span. morning, the house budget passes budget accord. voted 332-94 to approve a two-year budget outline that would reduce the chance of another government shutdown and and the cycle of crisis budgeting that has been the scourge of washington for much of the past three years. the budget approval -- that legislation will head next week to the senate -- you and you and you younger -- you hear is the front page of "the financial times" -- are you finally, and you and i before we go to calls, here is take.today's " and i this chart shows so

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host: we have been talking with representative gwen moore, democrat of wisconsin, fourth district, milwaukee area. why did you vote for the budget agreement? i am a proud progressive, i am a proud liberal. idid not get everything wanted. i would have wanted to extend unemployment for sure. to those -- extend unemployment to those long-term unemployed people. i did not want to ding federal employees. i am skeptical about delays in payments for medicaid. me a greatturbing deal. i have learned the hard way in congress that being ideologically stuck is not workable. to the extent that republicans were able -- paul ryan in and patty murray, their leadership leading the way . we have got to be responsible to the majority of the people in this country. i will continue to fight for those things. a door is open. i think i owed it to my constituents to show my willingness to keep -- to stay at the table. host: thank you for being on "washington journal." we have about 30 minutes left. we will open up the phone lines. a lot of topics on the table. anything you want to talk about, from public policy poi

so he so happened to be sitting beside gwen moore, he was sitting beside her for some 20 hours, but throughoutthe aisles, several stops for refueling, and then of course at the -- in johannesburg and the event, the memorial service we again had a chance to talk. i spent a lot of time talking to him about the affordable care act, because i realize that we were diametrically opposed, opposite ends of the spectrum. he being against it and i being very much for it. i tried to explain to him in clear terms why it was so very important to me. i told him, i said, look, i'm concerned about the one out of ever four members of your texas population that does not have insurance and about the ones in my area. so -- so we had a dialogue, and we basically said -- he said, well obama care is not the proper way to go about this. i said to him this simple thing. i said, well, senator, tell me what you would do? we need to go about fixing it. the president said he's willing to sit down with anybody who's willing to work on fixing it, and he basically did not come up with an answer to that. but i wanted him, wol

. -- gwen moore. >> on this vote the eyes are 100 32, -- are 332. the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. ♪ with that vote, the house finished its work for 2013, it is now up to the senate to debate the budget agreement. this morning on "washington journal" we want to get your reaction. the house passing a two-year budget agreement last night.