you.ood to be with >> patrick kelly, defense and ter with cq roll call joe gould, congressional reporter with defense news, joe, go ahead. so senator, senator, we heard today from senator cornyn. out ofas optimism coming the last cr vote that ultimately increase on defense spending, that budget caps would be lifted. hat message do you have for leadership as far as breaking to a passe, and getting larger deal to fund federal government? senator: yes, get away from cr's. i can remember when i first started, it was understood, we were going to have appropriations bills, 12 bills and have not quite frankly, the partisan element to this, because we have to pass them out, majority, we can't get them on know.loor, as you minority can block for -- now as far as the one that has to pass, is the one for our national defense. nd we have to get past the budget caps, have to get, give an example, if we don't do right now, it is when we pass authorization bill military, $700 billion, we have to go and can't get the cap and go to strict r, that is going down to $549 billion and that would absolutely be